A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF REGISTERED CONSTRUSTION WOMEN LABOURERS IN TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT.

DR. K.SATHYA BAMA; A.MARIA CHRISTIN NIRMALA

Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2018

A STUDY ON JOB SATISFACTION OF REGISTERED CONSTRUSTION WOMEN LABOURERS IN TIRUNELVELI DISTRICT.

Dr. K. Sathya Bama, A. Maria Christin Nirmala

Abstract :

India is essentially an agricultural country, as about seventy percent of the population lives in villages. Majority of the Indian rural workers are agriculture dependent, in which the share of agricultural labourers is quite high. Construction sector is viewed as a service industry. It generates substantial employment and provides growth impetus to other manufacturing sectors like cement, bitumen, iron and steel, chemicals, icks, paints, tiles etc. In India, it employs large number of skilled, semiskilled as well as unskilled workforce due to its huge demand. The concept of job satisfaction is a comprehensive one covering attitudes of an employee towards various job factors. This paper studies the job satisfaction of registered construction women labourers in Tirunelveli District. For this purpose, primary data were collected by the researcher through interview schedule method. This chapter is designed to study the determinants such as age, marital status, educational qualification, family size, monthly income, field employed, period of payment of wages, and years of experience in work. ‘One way ANOVA’ and independent sample‘t’ test, has been used for finding out the job satisfaction of women labourers in construction fields