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A person who works on another persons land only as a labourer without exercising any supervision or
direction in cultivation, for wages in cash, kind or share such as share of produce”.
ordinary labourers:Ordinary labourers are those unskilled labourers employed in digging, silt
cleaning, building embankments,etc.
BPO:
• Major corporations in the US and Europe are outsourcing their back office operations to India to
save costs.
• Although these jobs usually are not directly IT-related, their data-based orientation often means
that they require IT departmental support to be successfully outsourced
BENEFITS:
ADVANTAGES:
1. SALARY
2. Qualification
3. Clean work
4. Growth-flexibility to change jobs easily
5. On job training
6. Medical insurance
7. Opportunity to work overseas
8. Call center employees may be able work from home now .
DISADVANTAGES:
1. Odd working hours.
2. Family life.
3. Health issues.
4. Abusive clients.
5. Age factor.
6. Social issues/alcohol consumption.
7. Future trend.
TYPES:
1.HORIZONTAL 2.VERTICAL.
KPO:
• Knowledge Processing Outsourcing (popularly known as a KPO), calls for the application of
specialized domain pertinent knowledge of a high level.
• The KPO typically involves a component of Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO), Research
Process Outsourcing (RPO) and Analysis Proves Outsourcing (APO).
• KPO business entities provide typical domain-based processes, advanced analytical skills and
business expertise, rather than just process expertise.
• KPO Industry is handling more amount of high skilled work other than the BPO Industry. While
KPO derives its strength from the depth of knowledge, experience and judgment factor; BPO in
contrast is more about size, volume and efficiency.
FUTURE:
• Evalueserve Study
• Cost Effectiveness – The labor cost in developed countries is too much higher than labor cost in
developing countries.
• Skilled Manpower – Countries like India, China, Taiwan, and Philippines has abundance of well
educated and professionally trained human resources.
• Work Perfection – Due to saturation of KPO jobs in a few countries, it is easier to find domain
experts.
Child labour refers to the employment of children (who are 5-14 years age) at regular and
sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations
and is illegal in many countries.
Child labour was utilized to varying extents through most of history, but entered public
dispute with the advent of universal schooling, with changes in working conditions during the
industrial revolution, and with the emergence of the concepts of workers' and children's rights.
• Physical hazard
• Cognitive hazard
• Emotional hazard
• Social hazard
Moral hazard
• Poverty
• Parental illiteracy
• Social apathy
• Ignorance
• Mills
• Chimney sweep
• Coal mines
Child labour today: Child labor is most rampant in Asia with 44.6 million or 13% percent of its
children doing commercial work followed by Africa at 23.6 million or 26.3% which is the
highest rate and Latin America at 5.1 million that is 9.8%
Child labor and hunger is one of the principal social illnesses in my country. There are many
institutes, organizations, public departments and international organizations like UNICEF whose
main objective is to prevent child labor. They have many steps to prevent it and I have some
ideas that can help.
First, many children left their homes in a way to avoid the abuse that they are victims of from
their parents. To prevent this bad treatment, the government could help give conferences to the
parents about child labor and the consequences that it brings. In this way, we can help prevent
other children running away from home and living as homeless children.
Another option could be to build homes for those children that are living in the streets. They will
be sent to these homes and they would not have to live outside. In this way we can help prevent
children from any abuse that they can suffer in the streets. In these homes, children are not
supposed to work; they can study and learn a career, and they will get a better job and a future.
Child labor is a very serious problem. Politicians should make laws to prevent child labor and
find solutions. Children are our future and we have to take care of them if we want a better
future.
CONCLUSION:
The future of a community is in the well being of its children. The above fact is beautifully
expressed by Wordsworth in his famous lines “child is father of the man”. So it becomes
imperative for the health of a nation to protect its children from premature labor which is
hazardous to their mental, physical, educational and spiritual development needs. It is
urgently required to save children from the murderous clutches of social injustice and
educational deprivation, and ensure that they are given opportunities for healthy, normal and
happy growth.
CONSTRUCTION LABOUR:
NATURE OF INDUSTRY:
• Such as:
Building,
Highway,
• Employees require:
Physical strength,
Training and
Experience
• Work They Do
• They remove trees and debris, tend pumps, compressors and generators, and build forms for
pouring concrete.
They load, unload, identify, and distribute building materials to the appropriate location
according to project plans and specifications.
• Laborers also tend machines; for example, they may mix concrete using a portable mixer or tend
a machine that pumps concrete, grout, cement, sand, plaster, or stucco through a spray gun for
application to ceilings and walls.
• They often help other craft workers, including carpenters, plasterers, operating engineers, and
masons.
• Jackhammers;
• Earth tampers;
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
• They may lift and carry heavy objects, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl in awkward positions.
• Use harmful materials or chemicals, fumes, odors, loud noise, or dangerous machinery.
SHIFTS:
• They may also experience weather-related work stoppages at any time of the year.
• In some parts of the country, construction laborers may work only during certain seasons.
EMPLOYMENT:
EARNINGS:
= $12.93
= $12.82
• Apartments,
• Factories,
• Offices,
• Schools,
• Roads, and
ACTIVITIES:
• New structures,
• Site preparation,
• Maintenance,
• Repair, and
INDUSTRY ORGANIZATION:
construction of building
contractors
WORKING CONDITIONS:
• Construction workers may sometimes work evenings, weekends, and holidays to finish a job or
take care of an emergency.
CONTRACT LABOUR:
The act came into force from 10 February 1971. it extends to the whole of India.
Persons who are hired, supervised and remunerated by a contractor who, in turn, is
compensated by the establishment.
Contract labour has to be employed for work which is specific and for definite duration.
Every establishment in which 20 or more workmen are employed or were employed on any
day on the preceding 12 months as contract labour and
To every contractor who employs or who employed on any day of the preceding 12 months
20 or more workmen.
(b) The work is incidental to and necessary for the work of the factory;
(c) The work is sufficient to employ considerable number of whole time workmen;
(d) The work is being done in most concerns through regular workmen.
The Central Government and State Governments are required to set up Central and
State Advisory Contract Labour Boards to advise the respective Governments on matters
arising out of the administration of the Act as are referred to them.
2) Registration of Establishment:
The establishments covered under the Act are required to be registered as principal
employers with the appropriate authorities. Every contractor is required to obtain a licence
and not to undertake or execute any work through contract labour except under and in
accordance with the licence issued in that behalf by the licensing officer. The licence granted is
subject to such conditions as to hours of work, fixation of wages and other essential amenities
in respect of contract labour as laid down in the rules.
The employment of contract labour may not be permitted for any process and other work if it
is:
a) Incidental
b) Perennial nature.
c) If the work is being done ordinarily through regular workman in that establishment.
The Act has laid down certain amenities to be provided by the contractor to the
contract labour for establishment of Canteens and rest rooms and arrangements for sufficient
supply of wholesome drinking water, latrines and urinals, washing facilities and first aid
facilities and have been made obligatory.
The contractor is required to pay wages to his workers. In case of failure on the part
of the contractor to pay wages either in part or in full, the Principal Employer is liable to pay
the same.
6) Penalties:
According to this act the punishment is imprisonment for a maximum term upto 3
months and a fine upto a maximum of Rs.1000/-
The contract labour has the right to claim against the contractor.
DISEASES:
Bad environment or working condition will affect worker in the following ways
1. Physiological fatigue
2. Mental fatigue
Decreased efficiency resulting in reduced output however previously no attention was paid in
working condition like illumination , humidity, air ventilation, temperature etc. But its
importance is now being realised.
1. Mental Environment:
A bad working atmosphere with hot conditions will feel discomfort and fatigue. His efficiency
will decrease and he will not be able to take interest in the work
2.Illumination:
When we use artificial light, glare is most common defect, it is harmful to the eyes. It also
produces strain and headache. Spoilage of work also increases due to glare.
3.Hours of work:
Generally, the working hours should be distributed uniformly over the week. A worker should get
atleast one weekly holiday so that he can enjoy on that day, and feelings of fatigue and boredom
from his mind are removed, and thus he may return on duty as fresh in next week.
When there is too much noise and vibrations it will produce mental fatigue and reduce the
efficiency of the worker. However, noise cannot be stopped totally for a running machinery but
can be reduced by enclosing the source of noise, use of baffles and sound proof materials etc.
A properly designed factory layout looks pleasant where worker feels proud in working and take
more interest in his work. Therefore, factory should be kept clean, doors and windows should be
properly coloured and walls should be white-washed so that atmosphere in the factory looks
cheerful.
The Factories Act was enacted in 1948 to provide adequate safety measures and to promote
the health and welfare of the workers employed in factories.
Important Provisions:
The important provisions of the Act include (i) health, safety and welfare; (ii) hours of work, (iii)
employment of young persons and women, (iv) annual leave with wages, (v) occupational
diseases, (vi) administration, (vii) enforcement and (viii) penalties for offences.
There are about eleven chapters and 120 sections in the Factories Act, 1948 that deals with
the following provisions relating to the workers.
1. Fencing of Machinery
2. Work on or near machinery in motion
3. Devices for cutting off power from running machines in emergency shall be provided.
4. Casing of machinery
5. Hoists and lifts
6. Lifting machines, chains, ropes and lifting tackles
7. Revolving machinery
8. Excessive weights
9. Protection of eyes
10. Precautions against dangerous fumes
11. Precautions against Fire
Welfare Provisions
1. Washing Facilities
2. Sitting Facilities
3. First-Aid Appliances
4. Canteens
6. Creches
7.Welfare Facilities.
Industrial health:
The term “health” is a positive and dynamic concept and implies more than an absence of
illness. The W.H.O has defined health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-
being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Industrial health refers to a system of public health and preventive medicine which is
applicable to industrial concerns.
According to the joint I.L.O / W.H.O Committee on Organizational Health, industrial
health is defined as,
1. The prevention and maintenance of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all
occupations
3. Protection of workers in their employment from the risks resulting from factors adverse to
health.
The modern concept of industrial hygiene differs from the traditional concept. The latter is
concerned with the “the mere absence of an ascertainable disease or infirmity,” while the
modern concept refers to “the health which is the outcome of the interaction between the
individual and his environment. He is healthy who is well adjusted”.
The objective of I.H is the prevention of disease and injury rather that the cure disease.
It involves a programme of health conservation and prevention of occupational diseases.
“On the one hand, efficiency in work is possible only when an employee is healthy; on the other
hand the industry exposes him to certain hazards which he would not meet elsewhere and
which may effect his health.
It is with the intention of reducing these hazards and improving the worker’s health
that the discipline of industrial health came into being as a branch of public health in its own
right.
The symptoms of bad health are a high rate absenteeism and turnover, industrial
discontent and indispline, poor performance and low productivity.
Employees in an industrial establishment are often subject to certain health hazards and
occupational disease.
According to Roland Blake, the normal occupational health hazards may be classified into
chemical, environmental, biological, and psychological hazards.
The results are often disastrous. Workers may suffer from respiratory
diseases, skin diseases, allergy, heart disease, cancer and neurological disorders, all of which
often shorten life expectency.
Biological hazards:
Environment hazards: Included such as radiation, noise, vibration, shocks and improper
atmospheric conditions.
Occupational Diseases.,
Occupational diseases are the results of physical conditions and the presence
of industrial poisonous and non-poisonous dust in the atmosphere. Raw materials, products by-
products and waste products may in the process of being extracted or manufactured enter in
the body in such qualities as to endanger the health of the workers.
For E.g; Cable makers, lead pipers makers, painters, plumbers etc.
• Lead poisoning,
• Phosphorous poisoning,
• Manganese poisoning,
• Mercury poisoning,
• Arsenic poisoning,
• Benzene poisoning,
Chrome ulceration,
• Antrax.
• Silicos.
• Poisoning from halogens or halogen derivatives of the hydro-carbon of the alphabetic series.
• Asbestosis.
• Toxic Anemia.
In additional to the above , the following diseases have been included under the
Workmen’s Compensation Act :1923
Telegraphist’s cramp
Begassoise.
Its main objectives are to prohibit the employment of children in certain categories of industries
and to regulate the conditions of work of children in certain industries.
Scope:
The act is applicable to all establishments such as workshop,
India
“Workshop” means any premises wherein any industrial process is carried on, but does not
include any premises to which the provision of Factories Act 1948 applies.
“Occupier” in relation to an establishment, an occupier means the person who has ultimate
control over the affairs of the establishment of workshop.
“Child” means a person who has not completed fourteen years of age.
No children can be employed, or permitted to work in any of the occupations set forth in Part
A schedule or in any workshop wherein any of the processes set forth in Part B of the schedule is
carried on.
The appropriate government by notification in the official gazette can make rules for health and
safety of children employed or permitted to work in any establishment or class of establishment.
Without any prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions, the rules for health safety
may provide for all or any of the following matters namely.
Lighting
Drinking water
Artificial humidification
Urinal
Spittoons
Fencing of machines
The central Government by notification in the official gazette may constitute a child labour technical
advisory committee to advice Government for the purpose of occupation and processes to be included
in the schedule. The committee shall consist of a chairman and such other members not exceeding ten.
It can meet as often as it likes to carry on its business. The committee is empowered to constitute one or
more sub-committees for general or any specific function.
The appropriate Government by notification in the official gazette can make rules for the proper
enforcement of the Act. Such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters;
a) The term of office and the manner of filling casual vacancies of and the allowances payable to
the chairman and members of the child labour technical advisory committee.
b) Number of hours for which a child worker may be required to work.
APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTORS: The appropriate government may appoint inspectors for the purpose
of securing compliance of this Act.
Penalties: whosoever employs any child or permits any child to work in contravention of the
provision of act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term of not less than three months but can
be extended to one year or with a fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees, however, it can
extended to twenty thousand rupees or with both.
Social security:
• Social security refers to protection provided by the society to its members against providential
mishaps over which a person has no control.
• The underlying philosophy of social security is that the state shall make itself responsible for
ensuring a minimum standard of material welfare to all its citizens on a basis wide enough to
cover all the main contingencies
• william beveridge has defined social security as ”a means of securing an income to take the
place of earnings when they are interrupted by unemployment, sickness or accident to provide
for the retirement through old age, to provide against loss of support by death of another
person or to meet exceptional expenditure connected with birth, death, or marriage
1. Compensation
2. Restoration
3. Prevention
SCOPE:
Justice.
• Medical care
• Sickness benefit
• Unemployment benefit
• Family benefit
• Maternity benefit
• Invalidity benefit
• Survivor’s benefit
The underlying philosophy of social security is to ensure a minimum level of material living to
needy or helpless ones of the society by the state.
The worker does not have resources required to face the risks caused by sickness, accidents,
unemployment and old age. During that time social security helps to over the period of
adversity.
The need for social security is realised not only toafford the needy workers protection against
the adversities of life, but also for the overall development of the state.
1.social assistance
2.social insurance
Social assistance:
Example:
Social insurance:
social insurance refers to a schene of maintaining fund from the contributions made by
the employees and employer,with or without a subsidy from the government
Example:
Group insurance
provident fund
The making of climate for industrial security in India started from the 10 th session of the
international labour conference held in 1927 in which two conventions and recommendations
were adopted for social security in the country.
The assembly resolved that the introduction of any comprehensive scheme for social security on
the lines proposed by the ILO was impracticable under the conditions then prevailing in the
country.
The employees State Insurance Act,1948 was enacted in India to inaugurate the social security
measures in the country
India, as a ‘welfare state’ is expected to take care of the citizens from the ‘cradle to the grave’.
In this realization , the constitution of India lays down that the state shall, within the limits of its
resources and development, make effective provisions for securing public assistance in event of
unemployment, old age, sickness and disablement.
Among the schemes, old age assistance scheme are the most important.
In Tamilnadu in 1962 this scheme was designed to pay a monthly benefits to needy individuals
over the age of 70 years who had no one to support them.
Subsequently, with increasing needs for social security along with the increasing levels of
national development, the government made various legislative provisions to afford the needy
people protection against uncertainties in their lives.
social security legislation in India:
The government of India has made the various enactments from time to time. The important among
them are
This act is the first planned step in the field of social security in India
Coverage: This act covers worker’s employed in factories, mines, plantations, mechanically propelled
vehicles, construction works, railways, ships, circus and other hazardous occupations.
The main objective of this act is to provide social insurance for workers.
Coverage: The act covers all workers whos e income do not exceed Rs 6500 / month.
Benefits: Medical benefits, sickness benefit, maternity benefit, disablement benefit, dependence
benefit.
The main objective of this act is to afford the retired workers financial security by the way of provident
funds, family pension, deposit linked insurance coverage.
Coverage: The act is applicable to all establishments not covered under the employees state insurance
act, 1948.
Benefits: From 1st February, 1996 a women worker is entitled to grant of leave with wages for a
maximum period of one month cases of illness arising out of tubectomy.
The objective of this act is to provide economic assistance on the termination of an employee.
Coverage: The act si applicable to the employees employed in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations,
ports, railways, companies, shops.
Benefits: under act, on completion of five years of service the employees are entitled to gratuity payable
at the rate of 15 days wages for each completed year of service.
DISABILITY:
Traditionally disabled people have been seen as the problem, to be tackled by focusing
interventions on the individual.
Disability and poverty are intricately linked. Disability causes poverty and poverty exacerbates
disability – people with disabilities are among the poorest and most vulnerable.
Global estimates indicate that at least ten percent of the world’s population lives with some
form of disability.
Asia Region, a vast number of people are disabled and lack basic support such as access to social
safety nets, education, health services, and gainful employment.
IN INDIA:
DISABILITY POLICY:
EDUCATION:
Provide free education for every child with disability below age 18
Promote integrated education and special schools for children with special needs
Remove all architectural barriers from schools, colleges and other educational institutions
HEALTH:
EMPLOYMENT:
Establish quota (3% of vacancies) in all government establishments for people with disabilities
Provide incentives to public and private employers to ensure 5% of workforce comprising of people with
disabilities.
HELP AVAILABLE:
Physically disabled can get income–tax benefits, passes for travelling in trains and state
transport buses
Knowledge Workers will also implement staffing processes, such as recruiting, hiring, and
metrics collection, into existing human resources departments.
Emergence Of Knowledge Workers:
Along with the evolution of industry, management thought, science and technology, the profile
of employees has also evolved. While we began with the agrarian age and land labour, we have
moved to the information era and the knowledge worker. The following diagram traces the
changing profile of the worker.
Profile Of A Knowledge Worker:
A knowledge worker is anyone who works for a living on the tasks of developing, or using,
knowledge.
For example, a knowledge worker might be someone who works at any of the tasks of planning,
acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, distributing, marketing, or
contributing in some way to the transformation and commercialization of information.
A term first used by Peter Drucker in 1959, in his book ‘Landmarks of Tomorrow’, the
knowledge worker includes.
Programmers
Systems analysts
Technical writers
Academic professionals
Researchers
Lawyers
Teachers
Scientists
Students.
Who is a knowledge worker:
Knowledge workers are
Highly motivated
Self- thinking
Self-acting individuals who do not work merely for the sake of money
Work as an energizer as far as they are concerned and they strive for excellence in both
professional and personal life.
They tend to be loyal not to their organizations, but to their professions; they seek out and
thrive on excitement and challenges.
Knowledge workers form the core of a learning culture as they have the ability to acquire,
apply, create and share knowledge.
Management Of Knowledge Workers:
Knowledge workers are believed to produce more when empowered to make the most of their
deepest skills.
They can often work on many projects at the same time. They know how to allocate their time.
They can multiply the results of their efforts through soft factors such as emotional intelligence
and trust (Francis Fukuyama, Manuel Castells).
The Knowledge Age
It is described by Charles Savage in "Fifth Generation Management."
The first wave was the Agricultural Age with wealth defined as ownership of land.
The second wave, the Industrial Age, wealth was based on ownership of Capital, i.e. factories.
The third wave ,Knowledge Age wealth is based upon the ownership of knowledge and the
ability to use that knowledge to create or improve goods and services.
Hierarchy Of Knowledge Work:
Knowledge work (e.g., writing, analyzing, advising)
Knowledge functions (e.g., capturing, organizing, and providing access to knowledge)
Knowledge processes (preserving, sharing and integration)
Knowledge management programs link the generation of knowledge
Knowledge services
Physiological
Consequences
Psychological Behavioral
Consequences Consequences
SO HOW DOES WORK AFFECT PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING?
ASPECTS OF MENTAL
ASPECTS OF WORK
HEALTH
WORKLOAD
MOOD
CONTROL
EMOTIONS
SUPPORT
SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING
JOB CHARACTERISTICS
CLINICAL CONDITIONS
Mysterious Processes
PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACT:
A psychological contract is one where the individual’s beliefs, is shaped by the organization, regarding
terms of an exchange between individuals and the organization.
THE EXCHANGE:
Employer Employee
Gives Gives
Pay Effort
Training Skills
Can be very Respect Flexibilit
general: Promoti y
on Creativit
Promoti
Etc Effort
y
Or much on Etc
more Training Skills
specific:
Reactions to violation (situations where employee believes that organization has broken promise)
Withdrawal of effort
Employees
Focusing on the quality and fairness of work relationships likely to play a key role in enhancing
positive psychological well-being
WORK ADJUSTMENT:
WORK MALADJUSTMENT:
POSITIVE MALADJUSTMENT: A conflict with and rejection of those standards and attitudes of
one's social environment which are incompatible with one's growing awareness of a higher scale
of values which is developing as an internal imperative.
Inner anxiety, inner conflicts, maladjustments, sorrows, and disruptions -- everything that
demeans our position in the scale of common values, work toward our passage to a world of
higher values.
If you want to develop yourself truly, you should be able to adjust and also maladjust, to
different kinds and levels of reality.
Of all the dynamisms of the first phase of positive disintegration, positive maladjustment is the
most important indicator of a potential for accelerated development.
In this process of development through multilevel positive disintegration, the human being develops
positive maladjustment to “what is” and an adjustment to “what ought to be”. This positive
maladjustment is basic for the development of mental health
TRUST IS…
Take risks
CONFLICT:
Imperative to meet conflict “head on”. Any avoidance causes team deterioration.
Acknowledging conflict is healthy and the first step to working as a team.
Team members need to know that conflict is necessary and coach each other to keep conflict
going until resolved
During a meeting where conflict occurs, team lead needs to remind others that this conflict is
healthy and necessary!
COMMITMENT:
ACCOUNTABILITY:
Peer Pressure is the most effective and efficient means of keeping high standards.
Defined as willingness to call their peers on performance or behaviors that might hurt the team
Ways to assist: publish goals and standards for all to see; frequent progress reports; team
rewards
RESULTS:
This is the ultimate dysfunction: ego and individual growth and status
The established goals and standards must be the focus. It is not the individual, department,
group BUT the team that succeeds.
WORK NATURE
Is more productive
Is happier at work
Emotion-
Problem- focused
focused
Exercise
Time
Meditatio
Management
n
Mentoring
NON-FUNCTIONAL COPING STRATEGIES FOR
DrinkingSocial
Role Support
Taking drugs
Negotiation
Clinical
ng
Eating
Problem- focused
Job redesign
Job rotation
Reduction of uncertainty
Job security
Telecommuting
Emotion-focused
Organizational support
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Design, organize, and manage work and jobs to promote cooperation, initiative, empowerment,
innovation, and organizational culture
Promote teamwork and skill sharing across work units and locations
Empower individuals and teams to make decisions that affect quality and customer satisfaction
Maintain a work environment conducive to the well-being and growth of all employees
HONEYMOON STAGE
CRISIS STAGE
SIGNS OF STRESS:
Chest pain, irregular heartbeat. Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing).