Impact of Quality of Work Life on Employees of Foundry Industries in Belagavi

Heterogeneous workforce and shifting business environment triggered an organizational environmental change in response to the mounting pressures to improve favourable work outcomes. As the composition of workforce continues to change, organisations focusing on quality of work life of employees are expected to gain leverage in retaining the key employees. With the encouragement of health and well-being at work, recent evidence suggests that work can be good for health in reversing the injurious effects of unemployment but yet if one is sorrowful in their working environment, one can easily fall into sickness absence or ill-health. Quality of work life refers to the level of happiness or unhappiness with one's career. It is also evident that employees with job challenge, autonomy, team support, job flexibility, happiness and training are some of the factors that influencing quality of work life and this would lead to favourable work outcomes. The present study is carried out with the objectives to explore the relationship among quality of work life and various factors such as job challenge, autonomy, team support, job flexibility, happiness and training. Convenience sampling technique was used to collect the date. The present study consisted 260 employees of the foundry industries from Belagavi city. The study revealed that the autonomy, job flexibility, happiness and training have a positive and negative relationship with job challenge, team support not having relationship with quality of work life.