Quality of work life and employee satisfaction is very significant for ensuring sustained commitment and productivity from the employees of an organisation. The sustainability of organisational success is primarily based on the employee satisfaction and the latter is contingent upon the nature and level of quality of work life of an organisation. This project attempts to bring fore the perception of employees about quality of work life and employee satisfaction across the nature of job. The results of the study depict a strong association between quality of work life and employee satisfaction. Furthermore, the findings also point out a strong divergence in the perception of employees towards quality of work life and employee satisfaction on nature of job. Which is remarkable as it reflects the different requirements and priorities of employees based on their kind of job they hold. Apropos to findings, the study assumes enormous significance for better reflecting the employees’ perception about the quality of work life based on gender and nature of job.
INTRODUCTION
The commitment of human resource is one of the predominant factors affecting the fortunes of an organisation. Therefore understanding the needs, establishing mutual trust, and creating an appropriate organizational culture is at the core of creating a satisfied human resource. Commitment can have many positive outcomes; those who have commitment are more orderly in their work, spend more time in the organization and work more. The QWL can be defined as the quality of relationship between the employees and the work environment which is such that employees have a significant influence in shaping organizational environments in methods used to increase not only their own motivations and employee satisfaction but also the productivity and profits of the company.
QWL covers a number of areas like adequate fair compensations, eliminations of health hazards in employment, employees