QUALITY OF WORK-LIFE (QWL) AMONG THE ENGINEERING PERSONNEL AND CONCERNS OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS (OE) IN THE STATE OF WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Abstract

The main aim is to explore the existing QWL parameters in three districts in and around Kolkata, India, to find out managerial issues that affects QWL and organizational performance. It is assumed that organizational performance and its effectiveness largely depends upon QWL parameters of the organization. Organizational knowledge –sharing among the personnel definitely enhances individual performance as well as organizational effectiveness (OE). Hence correlation between QWL and OE has been studied to find the nature and degree of relation between the two important aspects of Organizational functioning. Through a questionnaire survey, both the aspects have been studied in 17 organizations among 170 Engineering professionals having more than 10 years’ of experience and the data collected has been analyzed using various statistical tools to come to plausible conclusions about organizational behaviours in existence and suggestions have been made to overcome difficulties in maintenance of a conducive QWL environment that could increase OE in the larger interest of social benefit , development and welfare and development of Organizational Culture that could withstand global competition.