"QUALITY OF WORK LIFE" - By MaddaliSwetha

Introduction:

Quality of work life(QWL) is the quality of relationship between employees and the total working environment.It seeks to create those conditions in the organization,which

• Promote individual learning and development.
• Provide individuals with influence and control over what they do and how they do it.
• Make available to the individuals interesting and meaning full work as a source of personal satisfaction and a means of to valued personal rewards.

Walton defines QWL as a process by which all organization responds to employee needs for develop mechanisms to allow them to share fully in making decisions that design their lives at work.HR provides 8 criteria to evaluate QWL program.

• Adequate and fair compensation.
• Safe and health environment.
• Development of human capacities.
• Growth and security.
• Social integration.
• Constitutionalism (workers Rights).
• Total life space (Work having a balance role in the individual's life considering the requirement of leisure).
• Social relevance's.

In terms of management point of view,it relates to a variety of efforts to improve productivity through improvements in the human input.Thus,QWL helps in increasing task effectiveness and in unfolding human potential.

Advantages of QWL:

• More positive feelings towards ones self, improved job satisfaction and involvement,stronger commitments to the organization goals.
• Improved physical and psychological health.
• Greater growth and development of the individual as a person and as a member of the productivity organization.
• Decreased absenteeism and turn over and lesser accidents
• Higher quality and quality of output of good and services.
• Healthier,satisfied and productive employees.
• Efficient,adaptive and profitable organization.
• Improved labor-manger combination.