Employee welfare INTRODUCTION: Employee welfare work aims at providing such service facilities andAmenities which enable the

workers employed in an organization to performTheir work in healthy congenial surrounding conductive to good health andHigh morale.Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including various services,Benefits and facilities offered by the employer. Through such generous fringeBenefits the employer makes life worth living for employees. The welfareAmenities are extended in additional to normal wages and other economicRewards available to employees as per the legal provisions. MEANING OF EMPLOYEE WELFARE: The term is derived from the French word WELFARE. The of thisFrench word is well being or happiness or prosperity of individualsWelfare means faring or doing well. It is a comprehensive term and refersThe physical, mental, moral and emotional well being of individual

DEFINITION OF EMPLOYEE WELEARE: Welfare measures may also be provided by the government, trade unionsAnd nongovernment agencies in addition to the employer. InternationalEmployee Organization efforts to make life worth living for workers AccordingTo the Oxford dictionary Welfare is fundamentally an attitude of mind on thePart of management influencing the method by which management activitiesAre undertakeEmployee Welfare as a term which is understood to include such services, facilitiesand amenities as may be established in the vicinity of undertaking to enable the persons employed in them to perform their work in healthy, congenial surroundingto provide them amenities conductive to good and healthy and high moral .-INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONAT ASIAN RAGIONAL COFERENCE ARTHUR JAMES TODD {1933} point welfare is Anything done for thecomfort and improvement, intellectual and social of the employees over and abovethe wage paid, which is not necessary for the industry.PROUD E.S. defines

the welfare work as voluntary efforts on the part of employers to improve the existing industrial system the condition of employmentin their own factories. Objectives of employee welfare activities:-

Following are the objectives of the voluntary employee welfare services byEmployer-1) To win over employees loyalty and increase their morale.2) To develop efficiency and productivity among workers.3) To reduce of threat of future government intervention.4) To make recruitment more effective.5) To earn goodwill and enhance public image.6) To build up stable Employee force to reduce Employee turnover andabsenteeism. Importance of employee welfare activities :Employee welfare in India has a special significance as the constitutionProvides for the promotion of welfare of the employee for human conditions of Work and securing to all workers.The various welfare measures provided by the employee will haveImmediate impact on the health, physical and mental efficiency, alertness,Morale and overall efficiency of the workers and thereby contributing to thehighest productivity.Social security measure provided by employer will act as a protection toThe workers.Employee welfare means activities designed for the promotion of

Table No 4.1.3Distribution of the respondents and their salary S l . n o S a l a r y No.of respondents(n=100)Percentage(100%) 1 R s . 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 4 3 2 A b o v e R s .

1 0 0 0 0 5 7 5 7 The above table indicates that more than half (57 percent) of the respondents were in aboveRs.10000 and remaining 43 percent of the respondents were in Rs.10000. Frequency Income of the respondentsTable No 4.1.4Distribution of the respondents and their experience S l . n o E x p e r i e n c e No.of respondents(n=100)Percentage(100%) 1 B e l o w 5 y r s 5 4 5 4

2 A b o v e 5 y r s 4 6 4 6 The above table indicates that more than half (54 percent) of the respondents were in below 5yrsexperience and remaining 46 percent of the respondents were in above 5yrs. Frequency Experience of the respondents

Table No 4.1.5Distribution of the respondents and their level of job satisfaction Sl.no JobsatisfactionNo.of respondents(n=100)Percentage(100%) 1 H i g h l y s a t i s f i e d 4 7 4 7 2 S a t i s f i e d 3 2 3 2 3 N e u t r a l 1 1 1 1 4 D i s s a t i s f i e d 5 5 5Stronglydissatisfied55 The above table reveals that nearly half (47 percent) of the respondents were in highly satisfy for the job satisfaction, 32 percent of the respondents were in satisfied, 11 percent of the respondentswere in neutral and remaining equally 5 percent of the respondents were in dissatisfied andhighly dissatisfied. Frequency

Job satisfaction of the respondentsTable No 4.1.6Distribution of the respondents and their satisfaction with regard to company S l . n o C o m p a n y s a t i s f a c t i o n No.of respondents(n=100)Percentage(100%) 1 H i g h l y s a t i s f i e d 1 7 1 7