The work environment and issues related to work place play a crucial role in the productivity of organizations, media industry being no exception. The small, medium and bigger media houses in India have been facing the tough challenge of ensuing better work life balance for journalists and non-journalists working in their organization. For journalists, contentment, job satisfaction, quality of work life, fairness in work distribution is a considerable measure of their productivity and effectiveness in work. To draw commitment towards the organization too, there is a need to study work environment provided to journalists and non-journalists in the media organizations. In the daily routine of a journalist, fairness, accuracy, tight deadlines, pressure of performance speed, civic duty, precision and critical thinking are all needed together and day after day. The high pressure nature of work of journalists makes it indispensible to study the work environment and factors influencing the work force. From the pay scales, to autonomy, union-management relationship, a host of factors are affecting the Indian Media set up today. The objective of this study is to analyze the issues concerning journalists and the work force in the Indian media organizations.
Indian Media, Journalists, Media Industry, Concerns of Media, Work Environment, Work place issues
