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Adequate Labour Welfare Measures Leads to Healthy Industrial Relations – An Empirical Analysis

Bhavani Bhavani, Thamil Selvan

Abstract


This empirical research paper deals with study of the labour welfare provisions and its effect on the three dimensions of industrial relations like association of workers with organization, relationship of workers with management and supervisors. This study throws light on how far the satisfaction level of the workers in accordance with the labour welfare measures helps the employers to maintain healthy industrial relations. To measure the satisfaction level of workers about labour welfare measures a set of questionnaire were farmed. The data were collected by using stratified random sampling from 150 workers working in the different parts of the sugar mills functioning at various districts of Tamilnadu. Using the SPSS, some of the relevant tests were carried out like reliability test, percentage analysis, ANOVA and T-test. Based on the analysis made, various findings were derived that will be useful, relevant and significant to develop healthy industrial relations.

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Employers, Labour Welfare Measures, Industrial Relations, Workers

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