The major factors that affect the quality of work life can be:-
- Pay:- It is basically built around the concept of equitable pay. Employees must be paid their due share in progress and prosperity of the firm by giving them the share in profits of the firm.
- Benefits:- Workers, throughout the globe, have raised their expectation over the years and now feel entitled to benefits that were once considered a part of the bargaining process. Now, they would love benefits of all kinds from the employer.
- Job security:- Employees want stability of employment. They do not like to be the victim of whimsical personnel policies and stay the mercy of employer. The workplace should offer the security of employment.
- Alternative work schedule:- Employees demand more freedom at the workplace, especially in scheduling their work. Some alternative work schedules capable of enhancing the quality of work life are:-
a. Flexi time:- A system of flexible working hours.
b.Staggered hours:- Groups of employees begin and end work at different intervals.
c. Compressed workweek:- It involves more hours of work per day for fewer days, per week.
- Job enrichment:- It attempts to increase a person’s level of output by providing that person with exciting, interesting, stimulating or challenging work.
e. Autonomous work groups (AWGs):- Here, a group of workers is given responsibility for a task area without day-to-day supervision and with authority to influence and control both group members and their behavior.
- Occupational stress:- An individual suffering from an uncomfortable amount of job-related stress cannot enjoy a high quality of work life. To this end, the manager have to look into the working conditions, nature of work, worker’s ability etc. In other words, to reduce job-related stress, the organization must ensure the best fit between employee capabilities and organizational requirements and thereby ensures continued development of people at all levels.
- Worker participation:- Employees have a genuine hunger for participation in organizational issues affecting their lives. So, they demand far more participation in the decision making process at the workplace. Therefore, managers must adopt more participative style of leadership.
- Social integration:- The work environment should provide opportunities for preserving an employee’s personal identity and self-esteem through freedom from prejudice, a sense of community, interpersonal openness and absence of satisfaction in the organization.
- Work and total life space:- A person’s work should not overbalance his life. Work schedule, career demands and other job requirements should not take up too much of a person’s leisure time and family life.
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