P. Veeralakshmi, M. Naveenbarathi
The quality of work life and quality of life a pivotal aspect in everyone’s work-life. This also brings employee satisfaction. The employer can obtain staffs physical presence at a given place, and a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But the enthusiasm, initiative, joy, loyalty, cannot be obtained by devotion of hearts, minds and souls. Apart from this, if the employee is provided with other extrinsic and intrinsic benefits then it will lead to higher productivity and results in employee satisfaction too. To introduce the hard practices into the organization, it is the important to have encouraging atmosphere. QWL is one of the most important factors, which leads to such favorable atmosphere. It produces more humanized jobs. It attempts to serve the higher order needs of employees who are considered to be human resources that are to be developed rather than simply used. At present in India, the educational institutions are functioning under three categories, namely government institutions, government aided institutions and self-financing institutions. However, some of the self- financing institutions offer very good salary package and good amount of fringe benefits to the teachers than the government institutions. It is not uniform in all the arts and science colleges. Hence, QWL perceived by the college teachers is not uniform in all educational institutions. The reason is that in self- financing and in the aided institutions, the management is the higher authority for all administrations. Moreover the QWL of college teachers of these institutions suffer due to the plenty of Human resources waiting to be recruited into this field as college teachers. Hence, the management is not considering the QWL of existing teachers and they refuse to fulfill their requirements. Proper quality of work life of the teachers will lead to dedicated educational service to the young generation of the society. Hence the scope of the study was to analyze the quality of work life of teachers of government aided and self financing colleges in Kallakurichi district. This study is attempted to explore various dimensions of Quality of Work Life (QWL) and factors affecting QWL.
Work-Life, Employee Satisfaction, Human Resources, Educational Institutions.