Quality of Work Life of Employees in Private Engineering Colleges

Quality of Work Life in essence signifies the extent of overall perceived favorable situation in employees about their workplace. It encompasses employees perceptions on various elements of their job, workplace, and people management practices of the organization and the consequent overall realistic feelings in the people based on their evaluations thereof. Quality of Work Life is advantageous to organizations along with the growth and well being of employees. Positive perceptions on quality of work life instill confidence in employees and are linked with and permeate into various positive workplace outcomes like positive employee behavior and attitudes, quality in job performance, productivity, and thereby contribute towards organizational advancement. Form a conceptual stage; Quality of Work Life has now evolved into an approach and philosophy in people management of various organizations. In this context, the present study is an attempt to reiterate the importance of employee quality of work life in general, and the study private engineering colleges in specific. This study has covered six engineering colleges in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh.