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Quality of Work Life Practices in Indian Hotel Industry


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Employees are the most valuable assets for any organization. It becomes significant for an organizations to attract and retain best talents but also to maintain them for longer term in the organization. Present paper focuses on indentifying existing Quality of Work Life Practices in Indian Hotel Industry and adoption of these practices in Indian Hotel Industry. This research closely looked at the following broad dimensions: equal opportunities and growth prospects, adequate fair and compensation, welfare facilities, social security measures, safe and healthy environment, basic facility related with employee well-being, stress management, motivational dimensions, etc. This empirical study was conducted to examine the quality of work life (QWL) practices among selected hotel of India. Convenient sampling method was adopted for the selection of hotels. Data was collected through self administrated questionnaire. Questionnaire was emailed to 350 hotels of all categories from five star deluxe, five star, four star, three star, two star, one star respectively approved by Ministry of Tourism. Data was analyzed using Descriptive statistics, KMO and Barletts Test, Reliability Test, Shaprio-Wilk Test, Dimension Analysis, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.

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Quality of Work Life Practices, Indian Hotel Industry.
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Authors

Ankush Ambardar
Department of Tourism & Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
Amrik Singh
Department of Tourism & Hotel Management, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

Abstract


Employees are the most valuable assets for any organization. It becomes significant for an organizations to attract and retain best talents but also to maintain them for longer term in the organization. Present paper focuses on indentifying existing Quality of Work Life Practices in Indian Hotel Industry and adoption of these practices in Indian Hotel Industry. This research closely looked at the following broad dimensions: equal opportunities and growth prospects, adequate fair and compensation, welfare facilities, social security measures, safe and healthy environment, basic facility related with employee well-being, stress management, motivational dimensions, etc. This empirical study was conducted to examine the quality of work life (QWL) practices among selected hotel of India. Convenient sampling method was adopted for the selection of hotels. Data was collected through self administrated questionnaire. Questionnaire was emailed to 350 hotels of all categories from five star deluxe, five star, four star, three star, two star, one star respectively approved by Ministry of Tourism. Data was analyzed using Descriptive statistics, KMO and Barletts Test, Reliability Test, Shaprio-Wilk Test, Dimension Analysis, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test.

Keywords


Quality of Work Life Practices, Indian Hotel Industry.

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