STAFF WELFARE

Support and promote staff welfare

Support and promote staff welfare

Relationship between staff welfare and organisational objectives: Principles

Employee welfare defines as “efforts to make life worth living for workmen”. “Employee welfare is a comprehensive term including various services, benefits and facilities offered to employees & by the employers. Through such generous fringe benefits the employer makes life worth living for employees” (Pavetti, 2000, 44).

Welfare includes anything that is done for the comfort and improvement of employees and is provided over and above the wages. Welfare helps in keeping the morale and motivation of the employees high so as to retain the employees for longer duration. The welfare measures need not be in monetary terms only but in any kind/forms. Employee welfare includes monitoring of working conditions, creation of industrial harmony through infrastructure for health, industrial relations and insurance against disease, accident and unemployment for the workers and their families.

Principle Of Adequacy Of Wages

Labour Welfare measures cannot be a substitute for wages. Workers have a right to receive adequate remuneration. In fact, payment or reward to the contribution made by the individual is the basic and necessary welfare measure that an organization can take. However, payment of high wages alone cannot bring in commitment and enhancement of productivity for the simple reason that labourer is completely different from the other factors of production and has to be handled very carefully. Thus welfare schemes coupled with adequate remuneration can bring good results for a company.

Fulfilling Ego And Social Status

A company has responsibilities to the workers as well as to the society. An unhappy worker is a burden to the society, and the company has the responsibility to see to it that such a phenomenon does not occur. Adequate welfare facility can convert an individual into a less unhappy person. The company has to lead the employee out of monotonous working and give responsibility as per his capacity, and thus motivate him.

Current systems generally in use for assessing staff welfare

The laws of every country highlight directions to specific application to the working class, the necessity of securing just and humane conditions of work, for them. However, what these conditions actually imply cannot be specified in rigid terms for all times and situations. Thus, the subject of Labour Welfare is fairly wide and is not limited to anyone country, region or industry. Writers and institutions have described its scope in different ways and ...