Volume : 2, Issue : 5, May - 2013

Quality of Work Life Among Employees in Indian Textile Industry � A Pragmatic Approach

Prof. Dr. N. Vijay Anand

Abstract :

Today in many organizations, employees are not satisfied with their work and they are after more meaningful duties. Quality of work life is one of the origins of organizational development. It is the combination of the interaction of science and art that comprise the social performance and the domain of scientific discovery. Dimensions of quality of work life are different in the viewpoints of different researchers. This study assesses the quality of work life by Walton’s model. The components are Compensation, Health and Safety, Opportunity for growth and security, Social relevance, Total life space, Social Integration, Constitutionalism in work organization and Employee progress. Statistical population of this study was all textile mill employees in Tamil Nadu in India. Simple random sampling was used to select 400 employees as the sample of this study. Data gathering tools is the questionnaire of quality of life which was adapted from other studies