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welfare facilities
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INTRODUCTION
The efficiency of workers in the factory is directly linked with the congenial and homely atmosphere prevailing in the work place. The royal commission emphasizing on such facilities said” the provision of suitable washing facilities for employee are desirable and other facility must be desirable to all employees”.
In 1919 of the international labour organization was established to protect the welfare of the work populace the world over. And in the early part if the 20th century several acts were enacted to safeguard the workers interest.
Definition:
The international labour organization defines” labour welfare as the services, facilities and amenities which may be established in or in the vicinity of undertaking to enable person employed therein to perform their work in healthy and congenial surroundings conductive to good health and high morals”.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES
To suggest suitable recommendation to improve employee welfare measures in Tata motors vijai Sales Corporation.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES
• To gain the knowledge about the concept of “labour welfare”
• To know how this concept is related with HR.
• To know the constituents of labour welfare
• To study the level of satisfaction of various employees welfare measures with special reference to social security in Tata motors vijai Sales Corporation.
• To study the employee welfare measures with respect to work environment factor, convince factor, work health factor, women and child welfare factor, work’ s education factor and outside welfare factor.
NEED FOR THE STUDY
The 5m’s of management man, machine, material, methods, and money, out of these resources manpower is an asset to the organization. It also called knowledge capital or knowledge resources. As the management guru peter f. drucker rightly says” knowledge is the only meaningful resource today” For access to other resources is no longer, limited. Capital flows freely across borders, seeking out the company that needs it. Technology is available to the CEO’S who cannot grow it- for the right price raw material is free to be transported across the globe. Information is also available to everyone. Today the human resources is very demanding and they look at jobs to test their own knowledge, organization are also realizing the important of people resources in this liberalized, globalize and privatized economy.
Labour welfare can be statistically proved is directly co-related to customer satisfaction. Every organization should determine whether the employees working are satisfied with the facility provided by organization. This is the need of the hour because satisfied employees will ensure satisfied customers.
In order to make them happy, feel satisfied and retain them, organization plan retention strategies. To make this possible one has to determine what the present employees perceived satisfaction used towards the labour welfare. The survey on employee satisfaction win help the organization to evaluate its return on investment on investment in the important area like labour welfare measures.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The subject of “welfare facilities” is thus fairly wide and is not limited to any one country, one region, one industry or occupation. The scope welfare facility has been “described by writers and institutions of different shades in different ways and from different angles”.
Welfare facilities, by its very nature, “must necessarily by elastic, bearing a somewhat different interpretation in one country from another, according to different social customer, the degree of industrialization and educational development of the workers.”
In the report of the committee on welfare facilities, 1969, the scope of welfare facilities covered” such services, facilities and amenities as adequate canteens, rest and recreational facilities, sanitary and medical facilities, arrangement for travels to and from work, for the accommodation of workers employed at distance from their homes, and such other service, amenities and facilities, including social security measures as contribute to improve the conditions under which workers are employed.
The scope of welfare facilities however cannot be limited to facilities within or near the undertaking. Nor can it be so comprehensive as to “embrace the whole range of social welfare or social services”, if follows, therefore, that all extra mural and intra-mural welfare activities as well as statutory and non- statutory welfare measure under taken by employers, government, trade unions or voluntary organizations fall within the scope of welfare facilities.
These services are not statutory in the strict sense of the term and the employees who are the main beneficiaries will refuse to work in case of untimely supply or service.
INDUSTRY AND COMPANY PROFILE
TATA GROUP
Tata is a rapidly growing business group based in India with significant international operations. Revenues in 2007-08 are estimated at $62.5 billion (around Rs251, 543 crore), of which 61 per cent is from business outside India. The Group employs around 350,000 people worldwide. The Tata name has been respected in India for 140 years for its adherence to strong values and business ethics.
The business operations of the Tata Group currently encompass seven business sectors: communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy, consumer products and chemicals. The Group’s 27 publicly listed enterprises have a combined market capitalization of some $60 billion, among the highest among Indian business houses, and shareholder base of 3.2 million. The major companies in the Group include Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Tea, Indian Hotels and Tata Communications.
The Group’s major companies are beginning to be counted globally. Tata Steel became the sixth largest steel maker in the world after it acquired Corus. Tata Motors is among the top five commercial vehicle manufacturers in the world and has recently acquired Jaguar and Land Rover. TCS is a leading global software company, with delivery canters in the US, UK, Hungary, Brazil, Uruguay and China, besides India. Tata Tea is the second largest branded tea company in the world, through its UK-based subsidiary Tetley. Tata Chemicals is the world’s second largest manufacturer of soda ash. Tata Communications is one of the world’s largest wholesale voice carriers.
In tandem with the increasing international footprint of its companies, the Group is also gaining international recognition. Brand Finance, a UK-based consultancy firm, recently valued the Tata brand at $11.4 billion and ranked it 57th amongst the Top 100 brands in the world.
Business week ranked the Group sixth amongst the World’s Most Innovative Companies. And the Reputation Institute, USA, recently rated it as the World’s Sixth Most Reputed Firm.
Founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868, the Tata Group’s early years were inspired by the spirit of nationalism. The Group pioneered several industries of national importance in India: steel, power, hospitality and airlines. In more recent times, the Tata Group’s pioneering spirit has been showcased by companies like Tata Consultancy Services, India’s first software company, which pioneered the international delivery model, and Tata Motors, which made India’s first indigenously developed car, the Indica, in 1998 and recently unveiled the world’s lowest-cost car, the Tata Nano, for commercial launch by end of 2008.