Union and Quality of Work Life - Indian Perspective
Trajectory, Vol. 13, No. 2, December 2005
12 Pages Posted: 22 Feb 2013
Date Written: February 21, 2013
Abstract
Union and quality of work life (QWL) are closely related. Various concepts came in the catchshell of QWL; Implementation of QWL requires to introduce few reforms. These reforms bring changes in the organization, which is likely to resist by the workers or unions, on the magnitude of the suspicion developed in the mind of workers due sudden change in the attitude management. The concepts viz. union, QWL, unions concern, union and QWL, implementation of QWL in union, has discussed in the present article. The allegation generally found between employer and employees that, employer state workers are more conscious about their rights and not responsibilities and vice versa. In fact, both workers and management are equally aware of their rights and responsibilities. Management has their own concerns towards workers as well workers have few concerns towards management. Besides paving these concerns, the suspicious and bickering environment widen the chasm of misunderstanding, and adversely affects on industrial relations. Union is the better vehicle that management can use to strengthen the industrial relations and improve QWL. In fact, union plays pivotal role to improve QWL in the organisation by various ways; few to quote that, union open up channel for upward communication to reach top management with its problems and demands. These problems are generally consisted safety, improvement in working environment and increase in monetary compensation. Improvement in such aspects leads to improve QWL.
Keywords: Quality of Work Life, Union and QWL, Joint Management Committee, Training and Development, QWL
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