The impact of women participation on their quality of work life with special reference to select banks

The efficiency of the organization can be achieved when the personal growth, wellbeing and favourable/humanized work environment will be taken care of and impediments and irritants are removed which could create a facilitating and congenial environment and faster a feeling of pride and belongingness. Thus, the principal task before bank management is utilization of its human resources to the optimum for better work and to meet the new challenges of its employees. The employees themselves are demanding the standard work life to contribute in the performance. Standard work life means humanized work surroundings which motivates the employees to perform well. Humanized work surroundings includes compensation of employees, safe and healthy working conditions, opportunity for growth and development, occupational stress, constitutionalism in banks, social relevance of work, participation of employees, empowerment of employees, work life balance, grievance handling relations, recognition, alternative work schedule and many more. The compact term is “Quality of Work Life”.

This paper is an attempt to find out the relationship between the women participation and their Quality of work life. Secondly, the type and degree of correlation existing between the two. Two banks have been selected AXIS and HDFC for the study. The structured questionnaire was prepared and thirty one questions were asked. Through this the opinions of the women respondents were known which were analysed by applying the Likert Scale. After that the weighted and combined mean were calculated. The correlation has been applied to determine the relation between the women participation and quality of work life. The positive correlation has been found 0.99 of limited degree between women participation and their Quality of work life.