Volume : IV, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

A Literature Review on Quality of Work Life

Mrs. G. Indrani, Dr. Mrs. S. Suma Devi

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In this era of globalization, maintaining the quality of human inputs rises from maintaining the quality of work life perfectly. Rise in the quality of work life would help employees well being there by the well being of the whole organization. Quality of Work Life (QWL) has been defined as “The quality of relationship between the employees and the total working environment”. QWL is concerned with the overall climate of work and the impact on work and people as well as on organization effectiveness. Quality of work Life is a Person’s life. It covers a person’s feelings about every dimension of work including economic rewards and benefits, security, working condition, Organizational and interpersonal relations and its intrinsic meaning in person’s life. Therefore we can simply say Q.W.L. is a concern not only to improve life at work, but also life outside work. This paper focuses and analyzes the literature findings which involve QWL. The present paper is an attempt to review the literature and the studies done in past to establish a relationship between QWL, employee performance and career growth opportunities.

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Mrs.G.Indrani, Dr. (Mrs.) S.Suma Devi A Literature Review on Quality of Work Life Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.4, Issue.8 August 2014


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