A study on understanding the adverse consequences on an employee’s performance due to withdrawal in transportation facility

Prof. Mohammad Khaja Qutubuddin

Volume : VII, Issue : II, February - 2017

A study on understanding the adverse consequences on an employee’s performance due to withdrawal in transportation facility

Prof. Mohammad Khaja Qutubuddin

Abstract :

Increasing competition from various nations like Indonesia and Philippines has forced many Indian MNCs to reduce the benefits to their employees as a part of their cost cutting strategy. One such move is withdrawal of a basic or hygiene factor like transport facility. This has lead to various adverse consequences on the performance of their employees like reduced motivation level, disturbed work life balance and their quality of work life. Many employees encountered increase in distress, a negative stress and even faced a situation of facing disciplinary actions due to frequently getting delayed in reporting to their work. Due to this they have encountered a negative impact on their career advancement, incentives, and salary hike and job security. Many employees found it impossible to relocate their residence to close proximity of their work place in spite of facing huge trouble due to unreliable and unsafe public transport. Many employees preferred to have a car pool facility over individual or personal vehicle or even public transport.

This study was carried out on few employees of certain select corporate houses in Hyderabad, India, whose transport facility (pick up and drop facility) was removed and the negative impact which it had on the productivity of employees and its adverse effect on the motivation and morale of these employees as a consequence due to reduction of shuttle and home drop facilities especially during day shifts, as a part of their cost cutting strategies.