*Professor & Head, Departmnet of Management Science, PUMBA.
**Assistant Professor, Sinhgad Institute of Management, Pune, India.
Online published on 9 October, 2012.
Work is an integral part of our everyday life, as it is our livelihood or career. We spend twelve hours daily in the work place, that is one third of our entire life. It does influence the overall quality of our life. Quality work of life is a term that had been used to described the broader job related experience an individual has. The researcher has observed that police personnel working at various police chowki involved in law order and duties as well as other duties where they are under tremendous stress since they are expected to perform various multifarious tasks like normal routine work, investigation, bandobasts, VIP movements and tackling terrorists. Their duties are minimum twelve hours, however it is observed that on & average these personnel are working more than expected twelve hours a duty. Police Personnel are not getting yearly holidays & not attending major festivals. Infact in festivals they have to work more. These irregulaties in day to day routine duties tremendous stress. Researcher has decided to study the quality of work life of Pune police, to find out factors. The researcher has identified the factors affects on qwl life in police.
Quality of work life, Police, Family life, Stress, workload