A Study of Quality of Work Life in Casting and Machine Shop Industry in Kolhapur

People constitute the core of an organization and it is again the people for whom the people work. This aspect is however overlooked in the glamour of technology. We are often more willing to develop and adopt new technology and are much less concerned about the people at work, their social system, their work relationship, life style and culture. Hence, their quality of work life (QWL) often suffers. In today's era both the people and technology has prime importance, because it is the people who work in structural manner with technology or techniques in the organisation.During the last thirty years, the term QWL has frequently occurred in discussions as interdisciplinary field of inquiry and action of industrial engineering, organization theory and development, motivation,leadership, industrial relations and about techniques for facilitating change, reducing stress and evaluating the nature of the working environment. However, it is often difficult to determine exactly what the term means.The term QWL has defined by various scholars and management practitioners but did not find unanimous approach towards the definition. On the examination of definition we find a narrow concept vis-a-vis broader concept of QWL. The narrow concept of QWL explains, workers participation in management or support localized activities and experiments to increase employee's participation etc. Where as, the broader concept explains QWL in conceptual categories viz. adequate and fair compensation, safe and healthy working conditions, opportunity to use and develop human capacities, future opportunity for continued growth and security, social integration in work place, social relevance of work, balanced role of work in the total life space etc. One observes the definition of QWL in different economic scenario