Managing people by talents and improving quality of work life seem to be the new mantra on the Indian corporate landscape. Every organization has an invisible qualitya certain style, a certain mode or way of performing things. This invisible quality decides how effective the organization is in the market place. Achieving heights in today's cut-throat competition, when businesses are trying to occupy the prime condition in the market place, quality of work life have emerged as an elucidation for the performance in the job. Performance can neither be achieved by external motivation nor by financial and non-financial rewards, rather it comes from the "Workers' and their total working environment". The focus is not only on how people can do better work, but also how work may cause people to do better. This article reports the impact of "Quality of Work Life" (QWL) on "Job Performance". The pressures in the free economy, the breakdown of trade barriers and globalization are making enormous demands on today's corporations to compete in every domain. The performance naturally tops out of all the critical items in the Indian industries and, therefore, it becomes imperative to understand how the job performance is influenced by the above mentioned factor. This idea is illustrated by doing a survey of 50 employees who were selected from different press media on a random sampling basis which showed good Quality of Work Life has a significant positive correlation with job performance.
The
winds of Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization are
blowing in our country and "Corporate Excellence"
is the current issue, which is being keenly watched by all
the organizations. Competencies and proficiencies of a person
that were essential yesterday may lose significance today
and may become extinct tomorrow. So, the message of the day
is-"If you lag behind, you will be left behind."
To
sustain and progress in such an environment, skills and competencies
of the employees should be multifaceted, upgraded and attuned
to specific needs. Thus, in the recent past, a shift has been
noticed from "Workers/Employees", which were initially
considered to be the means of getting things done, to "Human
Capital/Resources". These human resources are now being
treated as "energy". The melody lies not in the
control of this energy but liberation of it, which amounts
to empowering people to give their best. Therefore, it becomes
necessary to pay attention to the "Corporate Excellence"
in terms of performance at the organizational as well as on
the individual level. So, at the macro level, performance
can be defined as the ability of the people to achieve results
which can keep their organization ahead of competition. |
