Measuring Quality of Worklife: A Case of Paradeep Port Trust

In contemporary era, it has been noted that managing stress has developed into one of the most significant thought in the professional environs. It is also seen that operational competence has degraded to some degree as professionals are unable to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives. This difference has made organizations to formulate such policies that lead to better job performance which results in job satisfaction moreover employee satisfaction. This degree of satisfaction has been referred to as quality of work life is a process in an organization which enables its members at all levels to participate actively and effectively in shaping organizational environment, methods and outcomes. This paper on “Measuring Quality of Worklife: A Case of Paradeep Port Trust” was undertaken to understand and gain an insight into current working life policies and practices, as well as work life balance issues of employees and suggest possible measures for improvement. This shall lead to the enhancement of satisfaction and motivation leading to increase in the productivity and attaining organization's goals. Non parametric test of hypothesis was carried out to attain the objective of the paper and the results indicate that the employees at Paradeep Port Trust (PPT) displayed a high level of quality of worklife. Further it was uncovered from the study that human resources of PPT are of the belief that role vagueness, hazardous exposure, lack of meaningfulness and few other factors are ubiquitous in the organization.