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    A

    PROJECT REPORT

    ON

    H.R Policies & Strategies inReliance Communications

    Submitted in partial fulfillment of thedegree of

    Master of Business Administrationof

    Under Sikkim manipalUniversity

    SUBMITTED BYNAZMA PARVEEN

    MBA (H.R) (4rth Sem)

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    SUBMITTED TOMS. ROMA ROYFaculty Guide

    Apar India collage

    APAR INDIA COLLAGE OF MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGYROHINI BRANCH (DELHI)

    CERTIFICATE

    This to certify that Ms. Nazma Parveen a student ofMBA(H.r) 4rth Sem

    has successfully completed her project under my supervision.

    During this period, she has worked on the project titled zas partial

    fulfillment for the award of the degree of Master of Business

    Administration underSikkim manipal. University.

    The project report work done by the candidate has not been submitted to any

    university for the award of any degree. Her performance and conduct has

    been good.

    Date: (Faculty Guide) MS. ROMA ROY

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    DECLARATION

    I here by declare that summer training report entitled H.R

    Policies & Strategies in Reliance

    Communications Communications submitted to the

    Sikkim Manipal University, for the partial fulfillment of

    MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION degree in an

    original and authentic record of my own work carried out for

    the 8 weeks under the supervision of Ms. Roma roy,

    Faculty Guide, Apar India Collage .

    Finally, in the best of my knowledge, it has not published

    earlier where or presented to any institution/university for an

    end of any degree.

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    NAZMA PARVEENMBA(H.R) 4rth Sem)

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    DECLARATION

    I here by declare that summer training report entitled H.R

    Policies & Strategies in Reliance

    Communications Communications submitted to the

    Sikkim Manipal University, for the partial fulfillment of

    MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION degree in an

    original and authentic record of my own work carried out for

    the 8 weeks under the supervision of Ms. Roma roy,

    Faculty Guide, Apar India Collage .

    Finally, in the best of my knowledge, it has not published

    earlier where or presented to any institution/university for an

    end of any degree.

    NAZMA PARVEENMBA(H.R) 4rth Sem)

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    ACKNOWLEDEMENT

    A task undertaken without offering prayers to almighty and talking blessings

    from the elders is not a good beginning. Likewise the work completed

    without acknowledging the assistance to those who were always by my sides

    to make my efforts fruitful in the task left incomplete.

    In the beginning, I would like to express my sincere thanks to my Institute

    teachers for giving me an opportunity to take the practical experience of

    working life.

    I convey my sincere thanks to Ms Roma Roy, Faculty Guide, , apar

    india collage,Rohini (Delhi ) and Industry Guide, Mr. Sameer Bhardwaj

    for providing me the proper guidance for providing me the opportunity to

    carry out my summer training project effectively and efficiently. I would

    also like to pay thanks to all my classmates and friends and my family

    members for co-operating with me and helping me to complete the project.

    Nazma Parveen

    MBA H.R (4rth Sem)

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    CONTENT

    Institutional Certificate

    Organizational Certificate

    Declaration

    Acknowledgement

    Executive Summary

    Objective of Study

    Company Profile

    Research Methodology

    Data Analysis

    Findings & Suggestions

    Limitations

    Conclusions

    Bibliography

    Annexure (Questionnaire)

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    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002), is

    India's largest private sector enterprise, with businesses in the energy and

    materials value chain. Group revenues add up to USD 20 billion.

    The flagship company, Reliance Industries Limited, is a fortune global

    500company.

    The Group's activities span exploration and production of oil and gas,

    petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, fiber

    intermediates, plastics and chemicals) and textiles.

    The project assigned was employee retention or employee job satisfaction

    and task assigned was media planning, buying , preparing the directory of

    the media persons and held the interviews with the all the news channels and

    the financial media and prepared the questionnaire that defined the

    relationships between media and launching of employee job satisfaction.

    News channels and various newspaper offices were personally visited for

    media planning and preparing the directory and fixing the appointments with

    Industry Guide.

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    For defining the relationships between service/job and workers/employee,

    has been used used as a Statistical tool from the data collected through

    Questionnaires.

    Quality without creativity is meaningless. As changes grow ever more

    unpredictable creativity is rapidly becoming recognized a core management

    skill.

    Todays business environment demands that managers posses a wide range

    of knowledge skills and competencies, as well as sound understanding of

    management process and function. Managers need to be able to make best

    use of their time, talent and of other people to work with and through others

    to achieve corporate objectives.

    They also need to demonstrate their ability not merely to solve problems, but

    to transform them and design ways through them.

    This report concerns job satisfaction level and organizational climate, which

    are the important function in every organization.

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    OBJECTIVE OF STUDY

    The quest for

    Perfection

    Cellular service has been the most popular & developing medium of

    communication among all the new modes. Through mobile or cellular

    services we can talk anytime to any person around the world. Cellular is the

    most advanced form of wireless communication & has been highly

    developed with the present & the forthcoming Value added services. The list

    of wireless communication in future is as endless as we dare to dream. The

    fantastic range of possibilities that will come with the next 3rd Generation of

    wireless communication will require far reaching technological innovation

    to make them a reality.

    Reliance Communications envisions a digital revolution that will bring

    about a New Way of Life. A Digital Way of Life. For a New India.

    This project has two parts; first one aims at employee job

    satisfaction and its climate, and secondly the

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    implementation of satisfaction between work,

    environment and workers. Through this project, it has

    been tried to find out that what are the parameters on which

    the company is working and what are the current problems

    they are facing in providing service to the customers.

    Staying ahead of competitors solely through customer

    service is becoming more and more difficult. Its arrogant

    for a company to believe; that it can deliver the same sort of

    product that its rivals do and actually do better for very long.

    Thats especially true today, when the flow of information

    and capital is incredibly fast. Its also painfully obvious that

    every business in an industry cant compete using the same

    cost/price model.

    Now in this situation, the only way by which a company can

    prove its superiority over other is through distinctiveness.

    One can differentiate based on the core product/service

    offering, price or total cost of ownership or the total

    relationship and customer experience. Here is where CRM

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    plays an important part and can work as a differentiating

    business strategy.

    Entering the organization is like stepping into altogether a

    New World. At first everything seems to be strange and

    unheard, but as time passes, one understands the concept

    and working of the organization and thereby develops

    Professional relationship.

    The research that has been undertaken consists in the field of

    Self Development Highlighting the vital aspect of Self

    Development. A fair idea is brought up about the essence in writing report,

    which constitutes the loopholes in the self-development schemes in the

    corporate inter/intra departments.

    The METHODOLOGY will make the report more precise as it would give

    a fair idea as to by what means the information has been gathered. A detailed

    study of the report can be seen in the FINDINGS which would constitute

    of a definite aspect in building up of Project Work.

    The CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS are very clearly

    defined.

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    CHAPTER -1

    Introduction

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    COMPANY PROFILE

    TELECOMMUNICATION IN INDIA

    The telecom services have been recognized

    the world-over as an important tool for

    socio-economic development for a nation

    and hence telecom infrastructure is treated

    as a crucial factor to realize the socio-

    economic objectives in India. Accordingly,

    the Department of Telecom has been formulating developmental policies

    for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services. The

    Department is also responsible for grant of licenses for various telecom

    services like Unified Access Service Internet and VSAT service. The

    Department is also responsible for frequency management in the field of

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    radio communication in close coordination with the international bodies. It

    also enforces wireless regulatory measures by monitoring wireless

    transmission of all users in the country.

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    TELECOM COMMISSION

    The Telecom Commission was set up by the Government of India vide

    Notification dated 11th April, 1989 with administrative and financial powers

    of the Government of India to deal with various aspects of

    Telecommunications. The Commission consists of a Chairman, four full

    time members, who are ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India in

    the Department of Telecommunications and four part time members who are

    the Secretaries to the Government of India of the concerned Departments.

    The part time Members of Telecom Commission are :-

    1. Secretary (Department of Information Technology)

    2. Secretary (Finance)

    3. Secretary (Planning Commission)

    4. Secretary (Industrial Policy & Promotion).

    The Telecom Commission and the Department of Telecommunications are

    responsible for policy formulation, licensing, wireless spectrum

    management, administrative monitoring of PSUs, research and development

    and standardization/validation of equipment etc. The multi-pronged

    strategies followed by the Telecom Commission have not only transformed

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    the very structure of this sector but have motivated all the partners to

    contribute in accelerating the growth of the telecom sectors.

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    RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS PROFILE

    INDIA S LEADING INTEGRATED TELECOM COMPANY

    Reliance Communications is the flagship company of the Anil Dhirubhai

    Ambani Group (ADAG) of companies. Listed on the National Stock

    Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, it is Indias leading integrated

    telecommunication company with over 30 million customers.

    Their business encompasses a complete range of telecom services covering

    mobile and fixed line telephony. It includes broadband, national and

    international long distance services and data services along with an

    exhaustive range of value-added services and applications. Their constant

    endeavour is to achieve customer delight by enhancing the productivity of

    the enterprises and individuals we serve.

    Reliance Mobile (formerly Reliance India Mobile), launched on 28

    December 2002, coinciding with the joyous occasion of the late Dhirubhai

    Ambanis 70th birthday, was among the initial initiatives of Reliance

    Communications. It marked the auspicious beginning of Dhirubhais dream

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    global depositary receipts, convertibles and bonds. Starting in 1991, he

    directed Reliance Industries in its efforts to raise over US$ 2 billion. He also

    steered the 100-year Yankee bond issue for the company in January 1997.

    M embership:

    Wharton Board of Overseers, The Wharton School, USA

    Central Advisory Committee, Central Electricity Regulatory

    Commission

    Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management,

    Ahmedabad

    Board of Governors Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

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    SCOPE OF STUDY

    VISION

    With mobile devices, netways and broadband systems

    linked to powerful digital networks, Reliance

    Communications will usher fundamental changes in

    the social and economic landscape of India.

    Reliance Communications will help men and women connect and

    communicate with each other. It will enable citizens to reach out to their

    work place, home and interests, while on the move. It will enable people to

    work, shop, educate and entertain themselves round the clock, both in the

    virtual world and in the physical world. It will make available television

    programmes, movies and news capsules on demand. It will unfurl new

    simulated virtual worlds with exhilarating experiences behind the screens of

    computers and televisions.

    Users of Reliance Communications's full range of services would no

    longer need audiotapes and CDs to listen to music. Videotapes and DVDs

    would not be necessary to see movies. Books and CD ROMs would not be

    needed to get educated. Newspapers and magazines would not be required to

    keep abreast of events. Vehicles and wallets will become unnecessary for

    shopping.

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    Reliance Communications will disseminate information at a low cost. "Make

    a telephone call cheaper than a post card". These prophetic words of

    Dhirubhai Ambani will be a metaphor of profound significance for Reliance

    Communications. Reliance Communications will regularly unfold new

    applications. Continually adapt new digital technologies. Create new

    customer experiences. Constantly strive to be ahead of the world.

    Reliance Communications will transform thousands of villages and

    hundreds of towns and cities across the country. Above all, Reliance

    Communications will pave the way to make India a global leader in the

    knowledge age.

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    MISSION

    "We will meet global standards for telecom services that delight customers

    through:

    Customer service focus

    Empowered employees

    Innovative services

    Cost Efficiency"

    A D ream C ome T rue

    The Late Dhirubhai Ambani dreamt of a digital India an India where the

    common man would have access to affordable means of information and

    communication. Dhirubhai, who single-handedly built Indias largest private

    sector company virtually from scratch, had stated as early as 1999: Make

    the tools of information and communication available to people at an

    affordable cost. They will overcome the handicaps of illiteracy and lack of

    mobility.

    It was with this belief in mind that Reliance Communications (formerly

    Reliance Infocomm) started laying 60,000 route kilometers of a pan-India

    fibre optic backbone. This backbone was commissioned on 28 December

    2002, the auspicious occasion of Dhirubhais 70th birthday, though sadly

    after his unexpected demise on 6 July 2002.

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    Reliance Communications has a reliable, high-capacity, integrated (both

    wireless and wireline) and convergent (voice, data and video) digital

    network. It is capable of delivering a range of services spanning the entire

    infocomm (information and communication) value chain, including

    infrastructure and services for enterprises as well as individuals,

    applications, and consulting.

    Today, Reliance Communications is revolutionizing the way India

    communicates and networks, truly bringing about a new way of life.

    Wireless wonderland

    Reliance Mobile

    With over 30 million subscribers, Reliance Mobile is Indias largest mobile

    service brand. Reliance Mobile services now cover over 10,300 cities and

    towns across India. We have achieved many milestones in this short

    journey. In 2003, AC Nielsen voted Reliance Mobile (formerly Reliance

    India Mobile) as Indias Most Trusted Telecom Brand. In July 2003, it

    created a world record by adding one million subscribers in a matter of just

    10 days through its Monsoon Hungama offer. What sets Reliance Mobile

    apart is the fact that nearly 90 per cent of our handsets are data-enabled, and

    can access hundreds of Java applications on Reliance Mobile World.

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    Reliance Mobile has ushered in a mobile revolution by offering advanced

    multimedia handsets to the common man at very affordable rates. This

    innovative low pricing has increased the number of mobile phone users and

    its result is clearly reflected in the meteoric rise in Indias tele-density over

    the past four years.

    Theirpan-India wireless network runs on CDMA2000 1x technology, which

    has superior voice and data capabilities compared to other cellular mobile

    technologies. CDMA200 1x is more cost-effective as it utilizes the scarceradio spectrum more efficiently than other technologies do. Enhanced voice

    clarity, superior data speed of up to 144 kbps and seamless migration to

    newer generations of mobile technologies are some of the differentiators that

    set CDMA200 1x technology apart from its competitors.

    Reliance Mobile World

    The Reliance Mobile World suite of Reliance Mobile is a unique Java-based

    application. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it enables complex Internet

    application to be introduced in mobile phones effectively and quickly.

    Reliance Mobile World receives over 1.5 billion page views per month from

    Reliance Mobile users.

    Reliance Mobile World offers a wide array of applications that include

    hourly news updates, high quality headline video clips, downloadable multi-

    lingual ring tones, seasonal updates including festival specials, city and TV

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    specials, exam results, astrology, mobile banking, bill payment, stock

    information, commodity prices, railway and air ticket booking.

    With over 150 data applications offering varied services unique to any

    wireless service in India Reliance Mobile World is truly a treasure house

    of knowledge, information, entertainment and commerce.

    REVIEW Network

    Telecommunicati

    on networks are

    the infrastructure

    for provisioning

    Communications

    services. All

    businesses today

    are dependent on

    telecom to

    continue their day-to-day operations. The range and quality of

    services that can be provisioned is determined by the quality of the

    network deployed.

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    The Reliance Communications network consists of 60,000 kilometers

    of Optical Fibre Cables spanning the length and breadth of India.

    These cables can carry thousands of billions of bits per second and

    can instantly connect one part of the country with another. This

    physical network and its associated infrastructure will cover over 600

    cities and towns in 18 of the country's 21 circles, 229 of the nations

    323 Long Distance Charging Areas (LDCAs) and broadband

    connectivity to over 190 cities. This infrastructure will be backed by

    state-of-the-art information management systems and a customer-

    focused organization.

    An interesting aspect of the network is the manner in which these fibres are

    interconnected and deployed. Reliance's architecture is so fault-tolerant that

    the chances of failure are virtually nil. Reliance's ring and mesh architecture

    topology is the most expensive component to implement, but assures the

    highest quality of uninterrupted service, even in the event of failure or

    breakage in any segment of the network. Reliance has 77 such rings across

    the country with at least three alternative paths available in metros.

    Connected on this topology, the service has virtually no chance of disruption

    in quality performance.

    Access networks determine the services that can finally be delivered to

    customer. Our network has wireline access technologies based on fibre as

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    well as copper. Fibre in the access network makes broadband services easy

    to deploy. The wireless access network deployed for CDMA 1X is spectrum

    efficient and provides better quality of voice than other networks and higherdata rates. CDMA 1X also provides an upgradation path to future

    enhancements.

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    BUSINESS

    Reliance Communications will offer a complete range of telecom services,

    covering mobile and fixed line telephony including broadband, national and

    international long distance services, data services and a wide range of value

    added services and applications that will enhance productivity of enterprises

    and individuals.

    Reliance India Mobile, the first of Reliance Communications' initiatives was

    launched on December 28, 2002, the 70th birthday of the Reliance group

    founder, Shri. Dhirubhai H. Ambani.

    This marks the beginning of Reliance's dream of ushering in a digital

    revolution in India by becoming a major catalyst in improving quality of life

    and changing the face of India. It aims to achieve this by putting the power

    of information and communication in the hands of the people of India at

    affordable costs.

    Reliance Communications will extend its efforts beyond the traditional value

    chain to develop and deploy telecom solutions for India's farmers,

    businesses, hospitals, government and public sector organizations.

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    COMMUNICATION ASSETS

    Empowering Indian villages

    Reliance Communications is committed to bringing about a complete

    revolution in rural telephony. With this goal set high on our agenda, we have

    initiated a mammoth expansion plan to reach out to four lakh villages across

    the length and breadth of the country. Our 80,000 kilometres of terabit

    Optic Fibre Cable network forms the backbone of our nationwide

    expansion, facilitating unlimited and uninterrupted voice, data and video

    applications.

    They stand strongly by their commitment to empower the people of India

    with the freedom to communicate by realising their founder Chairman

    Dhirubhai Ambanis dream of heralding a digital revolution.

    Reliance World, our unique infotainment data application, already enjoys

    1.5 billion page views a month. With this roll out, countless more Indians

    will be able to avail of our services and stay connected. Rural India will have

    unlimited access to the Internet through the increasingly popular Reliance

    Net connect. It will surely put India on the fast track to knowledge-led

    leadership. It is a recognized fact that each point of increase in tele-density

    results in a 3 per cent growth in the countrys GDP.

    Village Public Telephone

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    Reliance Communications Village Public Telephone (VPT) is a pioneering

    effort to introduce telephones in villages that do not have any telephone

    connections till date. These VPTs with STD facility are being installed invillages for the convenience of the villagers. As per our license obligation

    we have installed VPTs covering 59 talukas. They are receiving subsidy

    support for 3,599 VPTs every quarter from the USOF.

    Rural Community Phone (RCP)

    After achieving the target of one village public telephone per village,Reliance Communications next plan of action is to provide Rural

    Community Phones (RCPs) in each of those villages where the population

    exceeds 2000. These RCPs, with STD facility, are to be installed in public

    places including shops, schools and primary health centres. We are fully

    committed to installing about 22,000 RCPs covering 61 districts across 11

    states in India by 2006.

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    MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY

    We will devote our human resources and technology to create superior

    products and services, there by contributing to a better global society.

    Our management philosophy represents our strong determination to

    contribute directly to the prosperity of people all over the world-a single

    human society key to our efforts is our own people, whose talent and

    creativity are dedicated to doing their best at all time.

    Technology also plays an important role in making it possible to achieve

    higher standards of livings. And superior product and services or what we

    are all about.

    We believe that the success of our contribution to the society and to the

    mutual prosperity of people across national boundaries truly depends on howwe manage our company. Thus we challenge the world to create the future

    with our customer. Our determination is growth-a perpetual challenge-but

    always working within the context of cooperative and inclusion of our

    customers.

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    MANUFACTURING AT

    RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS

    "Reliance Communications envisions a digital

    revolution that will bring about a New Way of

    Life.

    A Digital Way of Life. For a New India."

    Cellular service has been the most popular & developing medium of

    communication among all the new modes. Through mobile or cellular

    services we can talk anytime to any person around the world. Cellular is the

    most advanced form of wireless communication & has been highly

    developed with the present & the forthcoming Value added services. The list

    of wireless communication in future is as endless as we dare to dream. The

    fantastic range of possibilities that will come with the next 3rd Generation of

    wireless communication will require far reaching technological innovation

    to make them a reality.

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    Quality without creativity is meaningless. As changes grow ever more

    unpredictable creativity is rapidly becoming recognized a core management

    skill.

    Todays business environment demands that managers posses a wide range

    of knowledge skills and competencies, as well as sound understanding of

    management process and function. Managers need to be able to make best

    use of their time, talent and of other people to work with and through others

    to achieve corporate objectives.

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    HR PRACTICES IN

    RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS

    WORKERS PARTICIPATION IN DECISION MAKING / PLANNING

    IN RELIANCE COMMUNICATIONS

    A comprehensive scheme for employees participation in management has

    also been promoted in Reliance Communications the basic of this scheme is

    to devise a system whereby mutual trust and confidence are created between

    employees and management, which would promote active involvement of

    the employees with the work process it would also motivate them to give

    their best and to achieve greater job satisfaction resulting in the fulfillment

    of the larger objectives of the firm.

    There are two tiers system of employees participation which will operatethrough

    Unit council

    Joint council

    TIER 1 UNIT COUNCIL

    There is one unit council on circle level which consists of chairman,

    secretary and 6 members.

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    SCOPE AND FUNCTIONS

    1) To assist management in achieving monthly / yearly targets.

    2) To assist in improvement in turnover / output, efficiency including

    elimination of wastage and optimum utilization of machine capacity

    and manpower.

    3) Specifically identify areas of low out put and recommend corrective

    steps to eliminate relevant contributing factors.

    4) To study absenteeism in the units and recommend steps to reduce the

    same.

    5) To enforce safety measures.

    TIER 2 JOINT COUNCIL

    There is one joint council in each project which consist of chairman,

    secretary, 7 members.

    SCOPE AND FUNCTIONS

    1) To assist the management in achieving optimum turnover,

    efficiency and higher productivity of man and machinery for the

    project as a whole.

    2) Matters emanating from unit council which remain unresolved.

    3) Assist in development of skills of employees and promotion

    adequate facilities for training.

    4) Assist in preparation of work schedule.

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    5) To assist in optimum use of raw material.

    6) To assist in improvement of general health, welfare and safety

    measures in the project.

    The scheme generally covers all types of suggestions on any one or more

    of the following facts of working of the corporations:

    USE OF MACHINE AND EQUIPMENT

    1.Improvement in design and/or quality of product.2.Improvement in methods of maintenance and reducing wear and tear.

    3.Mechnising the hand operations.

    4.Combining different processes

    SIMPLIFICATION OF OPERATION

    1.Eliminating of operation.

    2.Combining different operation.

    3.Reducing fatigue.

    OFFICE ROUTINE

    1.Reducing the volume of records and paper work without loss of

    efficiency.

    2.simplification of procedures and routing operations.

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    WORKING CONDITIONS AND SAFETY

    1.Improvement of working condition including safety, health, safetydevices and environmental conditions.

    2.Improvement of interpersonal relationship.

    PROJECT DESIGN ASPECTS

    1.Suggestion leading to advantageous scheduling of the total project.2.Suggestions leading to better investigation technique.

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    RATIONALE BEHIND THE STUDY

    The present age is the age of competition. Every field is becoming highly

    competitive day by day. For the growth of any activity, skill and

    knowledge is very important and for that matter. Institution always plays

    an imperative role. On account of financial liberalization policy and

    economic reforms, the institution have to shoulder higher responsibilities.

    This can be achieved only through proper and trained staff. Training

    helps in acquiring knowledge by the staff working in the Institution.

    The organization has to be more responsive to the changing socio-

    economic environment. Organizational capabilities need improvements

    through continuous updating of technology, training and developments of

    man power, create a climate that can promote a culture of excellence and

    Job Commitment of individuals to the organizational plays an important

    role in achieving the organizational goals and objectives. Job satisfaction

    level in any organization plays an important role in achieving the

    organizational goals and objectives in the present day of stiff challenge

    from competitive market, it is ongoing process which requires proper

    identification of organizational satisfaction level and also the ways of

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    increasing the job commitment among the individual. Besides the

    technological and financial resources, the Human Resources is the

    biggest source of success in any organization.

    A highly satisfied environment in any organization will definitely increaser

    the Job Commitment among the individuals which in turn increase the

    efficiency.

    The structure of an organization has a significant impact upon the way it is

    managed. The structure of the organization has a long history. While they

    may vary somewhat from country to country , there are two fundamental

    characteristics of quality of life of modern man is clearly a massive

    improvement upon his forefathers due to scientific and industrial progress.

    Today mankind can walk on the moon, can communicate with a person

    sitting thousands of miles away and can travel hundreds of miles within

    shortest time. Yet, modern civilization has also made the life of man more

    complexful of the hazards of his own creation. Ours is Considered as era of

    stress. Frustration, conflicts, tension, and anxiety have become regular

    features of life. Any vulnerability to dissatisfaction that executives may

    suffer poses the potential risk of multiplying the level of maladjustive

    behaviour in the companies they work for, as they command and supervise

    large numbers of people in their organization.

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    JOB SATISFACTION

    Man M anagement is an A rt".

    To keep the workers dissatisfied, is important to understand them and

    predict their behavior and compensate accordingly.

    The term employee attitude, job satisfaction and morale are in manly

    instance used interchangeably. BLUM however, has made the point that they

    are not synonymous.

    Job attitude is the felling the employee has about his job, his readiness to

    react in one way or another to specific factors related to job. Job satisfaction

    or dissatisfaction is the result of various attitudes the person holds towards

    his job and related factors.

    Job satisfaction is a subjective, personal state perceived by the individual asbeing in his favor. It is the result of various attitudes possessed by worker. In

    a narrow sense, these attitudes are related to the job and conditions,

    advancement opportunities, and recognition of abilities, fair residual of

    grievances and other similar items.

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    Job satisfaction is the favorableness or unfavorableness with which

    employees view their work. It results when there is a fit between job

    requirements and the wants expectations of employees. It expresses the

    extent of match between the employees expectation of the job and the

    rewards that the job provides. Job satisfaction may refer either to a person or

    a group. Job satisfaction may be understood in the context of the employees

    extent of satisfaction in general in his total life situation.

    Ask a man why he works and the chances are he will you, to make moneycertainly, the need to earn a living is the most powerful single reason why

    people work, through, as we other job factors are also important.

    The attractiveness of any one job factor such as wage, is a consequence of

    the extent to which other job satisfactions or expectations are being fulfilled

    at a time. When a worker enjoys steady job, paying good wages, he is

    understandably more concerned about the treatment he gets from his

    supervisors, the degree of independent and weather his job is interesting. But

    when he loses his high-paid job, he is more concerned about regaining

    steady well-paid employment.

    Better a bad job than no job at all

    People in organization have many needs, all of which are competing. Some

    people are mainly drawn achievement; others are concerned primarily with

    security and so on. Despite these individuals differences, an effective

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    manager would not presume to decide which motives are important to his

    employees really wants from their jobs. By bringing their perception closer

    to reality, (i.e. what their people really want?) managers an increase their

    effectiveness.

    WHAT DO WORKERS REALLY WANT?

    This was conducted among the employees in the US industry in 1949 in an

    attempt to answer the question: what do workers want ? Managers and/or

    supervisors were asked to try put themselves in a workers shoe by ranking in

    order of importance a series of factors that workers may want from their

    jobs. In addition, the worked themselves asked to rank these same factors

    The managers/supervisors generally ranked good wages, job

    security, advancements and good working conditions as the things workers

    want most of the jobs. On the other hand, workers felt what they wanted

    most was full appreciation for work done, feeling in on things and

    sympathetic understanding of personal problems-all incentives that seem to

    be related to affiliation and recognition motives. Only job security was

    among the top four concerns of both workers and supervisors. Supervisors as

    least important rated the other top three things that workers indicated they

    wanted most from their jobs. This suggests very little sensitivity by

    supervisors as to what things are really most important to workers.

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    It is thus important that managers must know the tremendous discrepancies

    that seemed to exist in the past between what they thought workers wanted

    from their jobs and what workers said they really wanted.

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    Katz and Van Maanen (1977) identified 3 clusters of factors:

    The job itself-corresponding to intrinsic factors.

    The interaction context- corresponding to those contextual

    factors which has to do with co-workers, supervisors and other

    people in the job environment.

    Organizational problems- corresponding to that contextual

    factors which has to do with pay, working conditions and personnel

    policies.

    This means that a workers attitude of how satisfied/dissatisfied he/she is

    with his/her job is a complex summation of number of discrete job elements.

    In short, job satisfaction is a general attitude which is the result of many

    specific attitudes in 3 areas:

    Specific job factors

    Individual characteristics

    Group relationships outside the job

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    MEASURING JOB SATISFACTION

    Two most widely approaches to measure job satisfaction are a single global

    rating and a summation score made up of a number of facets. The single

    global rating method is nothing more than asking individuals to respond to

    one question, such as All things considered, how satisfied are you with

    your job ? respondents then reply by circling a number between 1 and 5

    that corresponds with answers from Highly Satisfied to highly

    Dissatisfied

    The other approach a summation of job facets identifies key elements in a

    job and asks for the employees feeling about each other. Typical factors

    that would be included are the nature of work, supervision, promotion

    opportunities and relations with co-workers. These factors are rated on a

    standardized scale and than added up to create an overall job satisfaction

    score.

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    JOB SATISFACTION

    AS A DEPENDENT VARIABLE

    Job satisfaction as a dependent variable means what work related variables

    determine job satisfaction? Job satisfaction is derived from and is caused by

    many interrelated factors, which from basic 3 categories:

    1. Personal Factors

    2. Factors inherent the job

    3. Factors controllable by management

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    PERSONAL FACTORS

    Gender: Most investigations on the subject have found that women

    are better satisfied with their jobs than are men. This is so despite the

    act that women are generally discriminate against in job competition

    and pay. Quite possibly the reason is that womens ambition and

    financial needs are less.

    Number of dependents: Results of many studies indicate that the

    more dependents one has, the less satisfaction he has with the job.

    Perhaps the stress of greater financial need brings about greater

    dissatisfaction with ones job.

    Age: from the consensus of studies, age has little relationship to job

    satisfaction for all employees but it is important in some job

    situations. In some groups job satisfaction is lower, and in some

    others there is no difference.

    Time on job: several investigations have indicated that job

    satisfaction is relatively high at the start, drops slowly to the fifth or

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    eight year, and then rises again with more time on the job. The highest

    morale is reached after the twentieth years.

    Intelligence: Relation of intelligence to job satisfaction depends on

    the level and range of intelligence and the challenge of the job.

    Education: there is great deal of conflict evidence on the

    relationship between education and job satisfaction so no

    generalizations can be made. Organizational polices in advancementin relation to education are important.

    Personality exclusive of intelligence: Personality has been

    suggested as a major cause of job dissatisfaction. In a study it was

    found that persons who were rated high in interpersonal desirability

    by their fellow employees were the most satisfied with their job.

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    FACTORS IN HERENT IN THE JOB

    These factors are important for management to plan and administer job moreadvantageously for its workers:

    Type of work: Employees tend to prefer job that give them

    opportunities to use their skills and abilities and of a variety of tasks,

    feedback on how well they are doing. These characteristics make

    work mentally challenging. Jobs that have too little challenge create

    boredom, but too much challenge creates frustration and feeling of

    failure. Under conditions of moderate challenge, most employees will

    experience pleasure and satisfaction.

    Skills required: Skills in relation to jobs has a bearing on several

    other factors such as kind of work, occupational status, responsibility

    etc. When skills exist to a considerable degree, it tends to become the

    first source of satisfaction.

    Occupational status: Occupational status is related to, but not

    identical with job satisfaction. It has been observed that employees are

    more dissatisfied in jobs that have less social status and prestige.

    Geography: it is general observation that workers in larger cities are

    less satisfied with their jobs than are those in similar cities and towns.

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    Size of plant: In small plants individual known each other better and

    are therefore more cooperative. The favorable attitude in small plants

    are based specifically in optimism about advancement, opportunity for

    making suggestion, treatment of employees and respect for the ability

    of management.

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    FACTORS CONTROABLE BY MANAGEMENT

    Job S ecurity: Industrial workers say that what they want most is

    steady work. Employment relation in the last decade has undergone a

    fundamental change. Fell time permanent employment has been

    declining and other forms of insecure work agreements like contracts,

    temporary and labour has been increasing. It is suspected that the loss

    of jobs is more pronounced among blue-collar workers that in white-

    collar workers.

    Pay: the importance of pay as a factor in job satisfaction has been

    greatly overemphasized by management. Many companies feel that a

    pay raise is a cure-all which will make everyone in the plant happy.

    Pay ranks well below security, type of work and opportunity for

    advancement. The importance of pay will probably change with

    labour market, with economic conditions and with employees beliefs

    about the job situation.

    Fringe B enefits: Management as something employees want has

    emphasized benefits, but the results of most of the studies show

    benefits in a rather low position of importance.

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    Fringe B enefits: Management as something employees want has

    emphasized benefits, but the results of most of the studies show

    benefits in a rather low position of importance.

    Opportunity for advancement: studies show that opportunity

    for advancement consistently ranks above average in importance.

    This factor is more important to sales, and skilled personnel, and

    least important to unskilled. Older workers were less interested in

    advancement that younger ones, perhaps because a man does most

    of his advancing in his earlier years and settles in one or two jobs

    in his last twenty years of working. Individuals, who perceive that

    promotion decisions are made in a fair and just manner, therefore

    are likely to experience satisfaction from their jobs.

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    JOB SATISFACTION -

    AN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

    Managers interest in job satisfaction tends to center on its effect on

    employee performance. A number of studies have been designed to

    access the impact of job satisfaction on employee productivity,

    absenteeism and turnover:

    Satisfaction and Productivity: There is a positive relationship betweensatisfaction and productivity. The relationship is stronger when the

    employees behavior is not constrained or controlled by outside

    factors. An employees productivity on machine-paced jobs, for

    machine than his or her level of satisfaction. Similarly, a

    stockbrokers productivity is largely constrained by the general

    movement of the stock market. When the market is moving up and

    volume is high, both satisfied and dissatisfied brokers are going to

    ring up lots of commissions.

    One of the greatest myths held by managers is that the happier a worker is

    the more he or she will produce. Research tells us that positive emotions do

    not cause productivity. It is more likely that high productivity leads to

    satisfaction. Management may have to do specific things to increase

    productivity and separate things to improve satisfaction.

    Assuming that the organization rewards productivity, your higher

    productivity should increase verbal recognition, your pay level and

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    probabilities for promotion. These rewards increase your level of satisfaction

    with the job.

    Satisfaction and Absenteeism: There is a negative relationship between

    satisfaction and absenteeism. Dissatisfied employees are more likely to miss

    work. Organizations that provide liberal stick level benefits are encouraging

    all their employees including those who are highly satisfied to take days off.

    A study was made about how satisfaction directly leads to attendance, where

    there is minimum impact from other factors. If satisfaction leads to

    attendance, where there is absence of outside factors, the more satisfied

    employees should have come to work while dissatisfied employees should

    stayed at home.

    Satisfaction and Turnover: Satisfaction is negatively related to

    turnover, but the correlation is stronger than for absenteeism. Yet

    again other factor such as labour market conditions, expectations

    about alternative job opportunities and length of tenure with the

    organization are important constraints on the actual decision to leave

    ones current job.

    Satisfaction and job Performance: Bray field and Crockett examined

    all research relating to job satisfaction and job performance upto 1955

    and concluded that was virtually no evidence of any relationship

    between these two variables.

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    {In summarizing the research relating to job satisfaction to job

    behavior variables, Vroom draws number of conclusions:}

    1) There is a consistent negative relationship between satisfaction and the

    probability of resignation(turnover).

    2) There is a less consistent relationship between satisfaction and

    absences.

    3) There is no simple relationship between satisfaction and job

    performance.

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    HOW EMPLOYEES CAN EXPRESS DISSATISFACTION

    Dissatisfaction can be expressed in a number of ways. For example than quit

    employees can complain, be insubordinate, steal organizational property, or

    shirk a part of their work responsibilities. There are four responses that

    differs one another along with two dimensions:

    1) Constructiveness/Destructiveness

    2) Activity/Passivity

    Exit: Dissatisfaction expressed through behavior directed towards

    leaving the organization which includes looking for a new position as

    well as resigning.

    Voice: Dissatisfaction expressed through active and constructive

    attempts to improve conditions that includes suggesting

    improvements, discussing problems with superiors and some from of

    union activity.

    Loyalty: Dissatisfaction expressed by passively but optimistically

    waiting for conditions to improve, includes speaking up for the

    organization in the face of external criticism and trusting the

    organization and its management to do the right thing.

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    Neglect: Dissatisfaction expressed through allowing conditions to

    worsen, includes chronic absenteeism or lateness, reduce effort and

    increase error rate.

    Exit and neglect behavior encompass the performance variables

    productivity, absenteeism and turnover. Constructive behaviors that

    allow individuals to tolerate unpleasant situations or to revive a

    satisfactory condition, which helps to understand situations such as those

    sometimes found among, unionized workers, where low job satisfaction

    is coupled with low turnover. Union members often express

    dissatisfaction through the grievance procedure or through formal

    contract negotiations. These voice mechanism allow the union members

    to continue in their jobs while convincing themselves that are acting to

    improve situation.

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    IMPORTANCE OF

    HIGH JOB SATISFACTION

    Managers should be concerned with the level of job satisfaction in their

    organizations for at least three reasons:

    a. Dissatisfied employees skip work more often and more likely to

    resign.

    b. Satisfied employees have better health and live longer.

    c. Satisfaction on the job carries over the employees life outside

    the job.

    Satisfied employees have lower rates of both turnover and absenteeism.

    Specifically, satisfaction is strongly and consistently negatively related to an

    employees decision to leave the organization.

    Several studies have shown that employees who are dissatisfied with their

    jobs are prone to health setbacks ranging from headaches to heart disease.

    Some research even indicates that job satisfaction is better predictor of

    length of life than in physical condition.

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    Job satisfaction has its importance for society as a whole. When employees

    happy with their jobs, it improves their live off the job. These people will

    hold a more positive attitude towards life in general and make for a society

    of more psychologically healthy people. In contrast, the dissatisfied

    employee carries that negative attitude at home.

    For management, a satisfied work force translates into higher productivity

    due to fewer disruptions caused by absenteeism or good employees quitting,

    as well as into lower medical and life insurance costs. Satisfaction on job

    carries over to the employees off the job hours.

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    What is Organizational Climate?

    In the organizational behaviour research literature, the notion of

    organizational climate is defined primarily in terms of shared perceptions of

    organizational policies, practices and procedures (e.g. Reichers & Schneider,

    1990). Thus organisational climate includes employee perceptions and

    evaluations of leadership practices, decision-making processes, working

    relationships among employees, appraisal and recognition, as well as roles

    and goals. Organizational climate reflects the way things are done in a

    particular work environment.

    Organizational climate perceptions are viewed as a critical determinant of

    individual behaviour in organizations, mediating the relationship between

    objective characteristics of the work environment and individual employee

    responses.

    Whilst all researchers agree on the importance of the climate construct, there

    is no consensus as yet on the core dimensions of climate. Thus, Campbell

    and colleagues (1970) proposed four primary climate dimensions: individual

    autonomy, the degree of structure imposed on positions, reward orientation,

    and consideration, warmth and support. Other researchers have proposeddifferent taxonomies of climate dimensions (see Ostroff, 1993). The

    organizational health model (see Hart & Cotton, 2003), incorporates 10 core

    dimensions of organizational climate: supportive leadership, role clarity,

    participative decision-making, coworker interaction, appraisal and feedback,

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    employee development, goal alignment, work demands, workgroup morale

    and workgroup distress.

    The climate construct has also recently been expanded to include a focus on

    more specific domains such as the climate for customer service and the

    climate for safety (e.g., Neal, Griffin & Hart, 2000).

    What about the difference between climate and culture? From an

    organizational behavior perspective, climate is viewed as the surface or face

    of culture. Climate can be measured and changed in organizational

    development programs, whereas culture is extremely difficult to directly

    measure and change in a desired direction.

    Whilst there is as yet no general agreement on core climate dimensions,

    there is nevertheless consensus that climate influences individual level

    outcomes through its impact on employee cognitive and affective states (i.e.,

    job satisfaction, morale, commitment, motivation etc.). In other words,

    levels of employee satisfaction etc. mediate the influence of climate on

    people-performance-related outcomes.

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    Why is Organizational Climate Important?

    There is now a 50 year history of scholarly research on the topic of

    organizational climate. Numerous studies have examined how climate

    impacts on a wide range of outcomes including psychological wellbeing,

    workers compensation claims, absenteeism and turnover, harassment and

    violence, safety behaviors, student academic outcomes in schools, and

    company financial performance.

    A recent meta-analytic review (i.e., where different studies are adjusted with

    statistical procedures so that they can be added together) of 51 climate

    studies conducted over past 20 years found that organizational climate exerts

    robust effects over a range of people performance-related outcomes, across a

    wide range of work environments (Carr, Schmidt, Ford & DeShon, 2003).

    In the Australian context, organizational health research conducted with

    large groups of public and private sector employees over the past decade has

    shown that organizational climate is the strongest factor influencing

    employee wellbeing outcomes. Further, climate has been found to be much

    more potent than stressors (i.e., adverse operational experiences such as

    customer aggression and workload pressures) in influencing the incidence of

    psychological injury compensation claims (see Cotton and Hart, 2003). In

    terms of rehabilitation outcomes and preventing psychological injuries, this

    research suggests that improving organisational climate is crucial to

    achieving sustained improvements in compensation premium performance.

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    SOME KEY ISSUES IN

    IMPROVING ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE

    The most effective and efficient way to improve organizational climate is to:

    (a) Use a good quality measurement system to diagnose how

    various elements of climate are operating, and then to

    (b) Implement a process that engages employees in reviewing the

    diagnostic data and contributing to the design of interventions.

    In relation to measurement issues, some managers seem to be able to

    identify problem areas through experience and intuition, but this is a very

    hit and miss approach. Other qualitative approaches such as interviews

    and focus groups may assist in diagnosing deficits in organizational climate,

    but these are also variable and can yield unreliable information.

    There is an increasing trend for organizations to use employee opinion

    survey technology to assess organizational climate. There are a wide range

    of survey products and processes available. Like any industry sector, there

    are top end measurement systems that accurately measure core climate

    dimensions, as well as surveys that are no more accurate or reliable than

    guess work, and a host of products in between.

    Some principles of good survey design that may assist in appraising the

    status of a measurement system include:

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    What constructs or factors are measured by the survey? Are these

    constructs relevant?

    What are the psychometric properties of the instrument (i.e., reliability and

    validity): does it accurately measure what it is supposed to measure?

    Is the survey system based on a recognised model (i.e., evidence-based or

    at least consistent with organisational behaviour research) of how

    individual and organisational factors interact to influence outcomes?

    Do the survey questions have good face validity (i.e., do they make sense

    and are they relevant to employees)?

    It is also important to note that survey results should, ideally, be reported

    down to the work team level. Aggregating results, and only reporting them

    at, for example, the divisional level, loses much of the potential value of a

    survey process. This is because most of the variation in levels of climate

    dimensions occurs at the work group level (frequently, survey providers will

    specify a limit of, e.g., 6 employees, beyond which results will not be further

    broken down for confidentiality reasons). Moreover, it is climate as

    manifested at the work team level that is most influential on employee

    behaviors. Without breaking results down to this level of analysis,

    organizations miss out on what is most useful in using a survey process. As

    such, they are unable to identify potential hot spots that could be targeted

    for improvement, and may not achieve any significant change in

    organizational-level outcomes.

    A common problem organizations encounter in conducting a survey

    concerns what to do with results. Many organizations commission a survey

    but dont think through what to do with the results. We did the survey and

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    havent seen anything come of it is a common catch cry heard from

    employees. Often managers consider that they do use the survey data to

    improve the work environment but these efforts ultimately remain invisible

    to employees. The problem is that employee cynicism and survey fatigue

    progressively grows and increases the risk that subsequent survey efforts

    will be undermined.

    It is also common for managers to deploy excessively top-down

    approaches in working with survey data. Rather than engaging employees in

    reviewing and interpreting the data, and working together to develop a

    program to improve their work team climate (i.e., implementing the

    principle of shared responsibility) they make all the decisions and drive the

    improvement initiatives from management level without significant buy-in

    from employees. Given that increasing employee engagement is a key issue

    in many workplaces in terms of improving business and people outcomes,

    this is not an effective strategy.

    Another issue in working with survey data concerns the priority accorded to

    certain survey indicators in formulating organizational development

    programs. It is a common practice to focus in on the relatively lowest level

    indicators and target those for improvement. However, not all drivers are

    equal; some climate drivers are more potent than others in influencing

    outcomes. For example, certain leadership behaviors typically exert a much

    stronger influence over employee wellbeing outcomes than levels of workdemands as such. Hence, targeting leadership capability will result in much

    more significant improvement than tinkering with levels of work demands as

    such.

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    What Does an Optimal Climate Look Like?

    Different researchers and organisational consultants offer a range of answersto this question. However, beyond differences in language and concepts,

    there is some overlap in current views about what constitutes an optimal

    climate. In the organizational behavior research literature, an optimal work

    team climate is often described in terms of high levels of employee

    participation, a focus on skill development and management support.

    Organizational health research has addressed this question throughdeveloping causal models (i.e., using structural equation and multi-level

    analytic techniques) of how organizational climate factors operate and

    interact in high performing work teams (i.e., work teams that achieve

    excellent and sustained business and people-related outcomes). This

    approach has found that climate dimensions operate as a dynamic system

    feeding into four core people management processes. These four processes

    are:

    (a) empathy (i.e., supportive leadership)

    (b) clarity (i.e., clear and shared understanding of goals and objectives),

    (c) engagement processes (i.e., involvement in decision-making, workingrelationships, goal alignment) and

    (d) learning (i.e., appraisal, feedback and development processes).

    Organizational health research has found that work teams where these four

    elements are functioning optimally exhibit the lowest risk for employee

    withdrawal behaviors (including psychological injury compensation claims).

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    OBJECTIVE OF RESEARCH

    The study was carried out at Reliance Communications, the main objects of

    the study are:

    To study of job satisfaction and organizational climate, and factors

    affecting it.

    To analyze level job satisfaction and organizational climate in

    Reliance Communications.

    To find out whether women are better satisfied with their job than

    men or men are more satisfied with their job than women.

    Self-development and understanding of working of HRD department.

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    RESEARCH METHODOLOGEY

    Research is in common parlance refers to a search for knowledge. One can

    also define research as scientific and systematic search for pertinent

    information on a specific topic.

    Well, all possess the vital instinct of inquisitiveness for, when the unknown

    confronts, we wonder and our inquisitiveness makes us probe and attain full

    data and fuller understanding of the unknown, can be termed as research.

    Research comprises defining and redefining problem, suggesting solutions,

    collecting, organizing and evaluating data, making deductions and reaching

    conclusion and at lest carefully testing the conclusion.

    Research methodology is a way to systematically solve the problem.

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    RESEARCH DESIGN

    A research design is the arrangement of conditions for the

    collection and analysis of data in a manner that aims to

    combine the relevance to research purpose with economy in

    procedure.

    In fact the research design is the conceptual structure within

    research is conducted, if it constitutes the blueprints for the

    collection measurement and the analysis of the data.

    The research work which is undertaken is to get a detailed knowledge about

    the project [Job Satisfaction and Organizational Climate]

    DATA COLLECTION

    Both primary as well as the secondary data have their own importance, and I

    have collected data from primary as well as secondary sources, but how ever

    in my project work I have focused more on primary data.

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    As stated, the primary data as collected with the help of

    questionnaire comprising of 30 questions. All the employees

    that constituted sample were approached individually.

    Secondary data was collected from Reliance

    Communications India by:

    Web site

    Library books.

    Annual reports

    SAMPLING

    A sample size of 50 employees working in Reliance Communications India

    were taken into consideration.

    SAMPLING TECHNIQUE

    The target group comprised the employees of Reliance Communications ,

    the sample was distributed in equal ratio both male and female officer. The

    respondents were selected randomly from each all the department in

    Reliance Communications.

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    Q1) Reliance Communications is a good company to work

    in?

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-95%

    Agreed working men-90%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-92.5%

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    Analysis:-

    Almost all employees agree that Reliance

    Communications India is a good company to work

    with. The employees disagreeing with the statement are

    negligible.

    Q2) The salary provided to me is competitive with those of other

    companies.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-95%

    Agreed Working Men-95%

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    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-95%

    Analysis:-

    95% employees have agreed that the salary provided to

    them is comparable with those of similarly placed

    industries.

    Q3) Monetary benefits such as bonus, allowances etc., are

    provided to me according to the industries practice.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working Women-100%

    Agreed Working Men-81%

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    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-90.5%

    Analysis:-

    100% females employees feel that the monetary benefits

    like bonus, allowances provided by the company are in

    accordance into industries practice whereas only 81%

    male employees have agreed with female employees.

    Q4) Proper opportunities for my personal growth are present in thecompany.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-90%

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    Agreed Working Men-83%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-86.5%

    Analysis:-

    Majority of employees believe that there is growth

    opportunities available in the company.

    Q5) The job assigned to me is according to my qualification andcaliber.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-86%

    Agreed Working Men-80%

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    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-83%

    Analysis:-

    It appears that of women employees feel that they are

    assigned the jobs in accordance to their qualification and

    caliber whereas 80% men agree that their jobs have been

    assigned in accordance to their qualification and caliber.

    Q6) My job makes the best use of my abilities.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-80%

    Agreed Working Men-84%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-82%

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    Analysis:-

    Comparatively, less percentage of respondents feel that

    their abilities are not properly utilized/ cashed by the

    company for performing jobs.

    Q7) My carrier growth in the company is commensurate with my skill.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-92%

    Agreed Working Men-86%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-88%

    Analysis:-

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    92% women feel that their growth in the organization is in

    accordance with the skills they possess whereas 86% men

    are agreed with the statement. This would perhaps revel

    that man are more ambitious and women are less

    ambitious.

    Q8) Adequate job security is provided to me by the company.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-100%

    Agreed Working Men-100%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-100%

    Analysis:-

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    Each agreed employee feels secure on the job in Reliance

    Communications.

    Q9) I feel, I have contributed in accomplishing the companys goal.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women:-

    Agreed Working Men:-

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage:-

    Analysis:-

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    Company has achieved its goal with proper contribution

    of both male and female employees and this is supported

    by 90% women and 81% men. It also reveals that the self

    analysis of employees is in turn with the organizations

    achievements.

    Q10) I involve myself in my work.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-100%

    Agreed Working Men-100%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-100%

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    Analysis:-

    All male and female employees respond that they involve

    themselves in their work i.e. they are sincere towards

    their work.

    Q11) I maintain punctuality at all times.

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    Response:-Agreed Working Women-92%

    Agreed working Men-96%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-94%

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    Analysis:-

    According to 6% employees this statement is not

    applicable. However majority feels that they maintain

    punctuality at all times at work.

    Q12) I am proud of doing the important work in this organization.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working Women-100%

    Agreed Working Men-100%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-100%

    Analysis:-

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    Majority of employees favor that they are holding the

    important task in this organization and they are

    performing them very proudly.

    Q13) Adequate responsibilities are provided for my personal andorganizational growth.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women-88%

    Agreed Working Men-80%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-84%

    Analysis:-

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    88% of the working women employees and 80% of men

    have agreed with the statement that the responsibilities

    provided to them for their personal and organizational

    growth are adequate.

    Q14) My work load is challenging but not burdensome.

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    Response:-

    Agreed Working Women:-86%

    Agreed Working Men-80%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-83%

    Analysis:-

    86% of female employees and 80% of male employees of

    Reliance Communications are enjoying their job as a

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    challenge, and does not feel that their work is burden on

    them. This reveals that officers by and large are ready to

    perform challenging jobs.

    Q15) My working conditions are congenial to perform the task

    assigned to me.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-88%

    Agreed Working Men-96%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-92%

    Analysis:-

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    92% of respondents feels that Reliance Communications

    provides favorable working conditions to perform

    different task.

    This is the reason behind high level of performance.

    Q16) My team members equally contribute for each others goals.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-96%

    Agreed Working Men-92%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-94%

    Analysis:-

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    Majority of employees agree to the fact that there is a

    proper team work and understanding amongst the

    employees of Reliance Communications for achieving

    the goals.

    Q17) The people I am working with are highly motivating and hard

    working.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-84%

    Agreed Working Men-84%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-84%

    Analysis:-

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    Encouragement with motivation and hard working in

    Reliance Communications is supported by 84% of male

    and female employees.

    This reveals that the organizational climate in Reliance

    Communications is motivating for the employee

    Q18) My colleagues are cordial to me.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-92%

    Agreed Working Men-84%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-88%

    Analysis:-

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    Majority of employees agree that their colleagues are

    cordial to them. This reveals that by and large there is no

    conflict amongst employees and good spirit is existing

    among employees irrespective of gender.

    Q19) My subordinate are very loyal towards me.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-84%

    Agreed Working Men-72%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-78%

    Analysis:-

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    84% of female employees feels that their subordinates

    are loyal to them, where as in the case of male

    employees the sense dependence is only 72%.

    Q20) I feel to tell my boss what I think.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-92%

    Agreed Working Men-80%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-86%

    Analysis:-

    A very good percentage of respondents says that there

    is openness in Reliance Communications as they are

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    free to discuss their problems and suggestions with their

    boss. It reveals that there is open door policy in

    Reliance Communications and freedom to express their

    ideas.

    Q21) The response from my boss creates confidence in my work.

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    Response:-

    Agreed working women-92%

    Agreed Working Men-92%

    Aggregate Agreed Percentage-92%

    Analysis:-

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    A good percentage of