Balancing Work and Life in Textile Industry at Perundurai, Tamilnadu

People are becoming more quality conscious as of their work, the products & the quality of their work life. The efficiency of each activity depends on the balancing work and life of the people. On realizing the importance of this issue, the present study was conducted to assess the existing state of work life balance, to analyze whether the motivational factors and welfare activities affect the work life balance and to identify the critical job related factors that affect the work life balance in textile industry at perundurai, Erode Dt. Today work-life balance has become an increasingly pervasive concern for employers as well as employees. Demographic changes as seen in the increasing number of women in the workplace and dual career families have generated an increasingly diverse workforce and a greater need of employees to balance their work and non-work lives. In response to these changes, employers have introduced innovative practices that allow employees to find greater work-life balance. Increasing attrition rates and increasing demand for work-life balance have forced organizations to look beyond run of the mill HR interventions. As a result, initiatives such as flexible working hours, alternative work arrangements, leave policies and benefits in lieu of family care responsibilities and employee assistance programmes have become a significant part of most of the company benefit programmes and compensation packages. Such policies, practices and benefit programmes are generally referred as ‘family-friendly policies’ (FFPs) or ‘work-life benefits and practices’ (WLBPs) in literature.

For the purpose of the analysis, the present state of working hours and work life were measured through Analysis of variance. The present study was conducted to examine the work related factors and demographic factors have any relationship with the perception of Balancing work and life. The critical factors like experience, Age and No. of working hours which affect the work life balance was measured by using the chi-square method.

The overall conclusions that emerge from the analysis confirm that the company should give more emphasis on educating the workers about the importance and the use of safety equipments, initiate programs for the self- improvement of workers.