A STUDY ON EMPLOYEE WELFARE FACILITIES AT HLL
INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC
Management is the efficient accomplishment of desired results in a given time frame, budget, environment through group efforts and involves the process of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, controlling, coordinating material and human resources in a manner so that organizational objectives are accomplished. Human Resource Management (HRM) is concerned with – (i) Understanding the workforce to provide leadership; (ii) Developing their potentials to meet the need of the organization; (iii) Attracting and selecting suitable talents; (iv) Controlling, motivating and integrating the personnel employed; (v) Managing trade unionism, industrial relations wages, welfare activities; and (vi) Foster a climate of productivity, team work and healthy labour management relations for the accomplishment of organizational objectives. ‘Labour Welfare,’ any thing done for intellectual, physical, moral and economic betterment of the workers, whether by employers, by government or by other agencies, or over and above what is normally expected on the part of the contractual benefits for which workers may have bargained. Dr. Panandikar defines it as “work for improving the health, safety and general well-being and the industrial efficiency of the workers beyond the minimum standard laid down by the labour legislation.” Encyclopedia of Social Sciences defines welfare work as “voluntary efforts of an employer to establish within the existing industrial limits, working and sometimes living and cultural conditions of his employees industry and the condition of the market.” I.L.O. report refers with regard to Labour Welfare as “such services, facilities, and amenities which