An Empirical Study on Employees' Quality of Work Life: A Case Study of Bokaro Steel Plant an Integrated Unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)

Quality of work life is a very important issue in all type of industries especially in integrated iron and steel plants. Iron and steel plant are basic industries providing back bone for industrialization in any country. The physical working environments are much more hazardous in these industries than any other industries. Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) is the fourth integrated and second largest steel producing unit of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The present study has been focused on evaluation of factors related to quality of work life in BSL in relation to employees' grade demographic. Based on employees' perception regarding 31 (thirty one) variable taken under eight factors these are Working environment, Employees welfare, Relational factor, Promotional factor, Employees commitment & developmental, Employees involvement and influence, Job satisfaction and Financial factor. It has been observed that in most of the variables the average perception score of non executives' was lesser than that of the executives'. In case of non-executives the employees of junior operative technician showed dissatisfaction in most of the factors.