A Comparative Analysis of Production Workers Developmental Milieu from Management Perspective and Workers Perspective of Selected Small Scale Industrial Units (SIUS) In PCMC

Many organizations claims that they work on development of production workers. Responses collected from 248 small industrial units‘ management and 361 workers of these SIU‘s. Data collected, tabulated and hypothesis tested after evaluation of responses. This paper, although it is an offshoot of the thesis entitled ―A study of Plant Level Production Management (PLPM) at Small Scale Industrial Units – With special reference to Pimpri-Chinchwad areas from Pune‖ However, the substantial efforts are made to segregate the content of the paper from the thesis and the same is primed to establish ubiquitously applicable ―Tool‖ to the situation where there is a need to evaluate PWDM. 37 statements are designed describing the PWDM of an SIU organization under varying dynamism. These statements are based on experience collected in pilot survey and survey of the literature. Against these statements, each sampled worker from SIU is asked to give his/her evaluation as perceived by him/her. After pilot survey this hypothesis was formed to check the deviation between the opinion of management and production workers about Production workers Developmental Milieu and same is found after the analysis. Two structured questionnaires designed to seek the response and Likert scale used in all questions. It is used to compare two proportions created by two random samples or two subgroups of one random sample. The assumptions for this test are a) Independent random sampling b) Categorical data & c) Large sample size. Here the responses obtained from person to person are independent; the response are either ‗5 - Strongly follows‘, ‗4 - Partially follows‘, ‗3 – Can‘t Say‘, ‗2- Rarely follows‘ or ‘1 – strongly not follow‘

SIU has to take care of personnel function especially for the production workers at plant level since they colonize more than a three-fourth chunk of the working force. Numbers of devices or methods are used by the few SIUs for developing production workers‘ satisfaction and their involvement in plant level management. With the recent emphasis on Human Resources Developmental inside the evaluate the PWDM, an unusual questionnaire is developed after pilot survey and is administered by Researcher with the help of six investigators on 83 sampled production workers selected from 248 SIUs (Robert V. Krejcie &, Duluth Daryle W. Morgan,2009) under judgment sampling method by giving weight to experience engaged in 248 sampled SIUs. The Production Workers Developmental Milieu (PWDM) sculpts of SIU is characterized as consisting of the following tendencies: (i) A tendency at all levels starting from the top management to the lowest levels to treat people as the most important resource. (ii) A perception that an urge of developing the competencies of Workers to the job of every manager/ supervisor/worker. (iii) A belief that Workers can change and acquire new competencies at any stage of life. (iv) A tendency on the part of all Workers is opened (encouraging free expression of ideas, opinions and even feelings) trusting, encouraging experimenting, collaborating, authentic and pro-active. (v) Team spirit and discipline (vi) Tendency to discourage pigeonhole and favoritism. (vii) Compassionate personnel policies and HRD practices including performance appraisals, job-rotation, training, reward administration, career planning etc. If SIU desires to be dynamic and growth oriented it has to pay attention to the Developmental of its human resources, especially at the plant level. Plant workers must be continuously helped to acquire capabilities for the effective performance of new roles/functions /tasks that may arise in the process of organizational growth and change in the environment. Thus HRD becomes crucial for SIUs dynamism and growth. In the recent past, mechanisms like performance appraisal, counseling, potential appraisal, job enrichment etc have been introduced in some SIUs in Pune. Against this setting, there is a need to set Production Workers Developmental Milieu (PWDM) since it covers all the above programmes. The present survey aims to find out the extent to which PWDM exists in the Small Scale Industries from PCMC areas (Pune). This study is based on the Premises mentioned above and under the assumption that the SIUs altogether is separate organization although an individual SIU‘s input/output and their manipulation are of varying nature. highlighted that in the globalized era if SSI wants to survive and grow, they need to focus on three very important dimensions of sustainability which are nothing but Economic factor, Environmental factor, and Social factor. (Nagesh, Bala, & Subrahamanyam, 2006) Hiranya K Nath - Researchers measured relative efficiency of selected SSI‘s in fifteen major states of India based on Second All India Census of Small Industrial Units. Focus was on two aspects Relative Capital Productivity and Relative Efficiency. Various initiatives of using modern management principles enable small units to achieve maximum production with minimum inputs. (Nath, 2008)

Primary objective of this research is to compare and analyze Management‘s perception and workers perceptions towards Production workers Developmental Milieu are same are different.

To test the hypotheses, The null hypothesis, H0: The population proportion of managers who agree to various sections related to Production workers Developmental Milieu is equal to the population proportion of workers who agree to various sections related to Production workers Developmental Milieu. Vs. The alternative hypothesis, Ha: The population proportion of managers who agree to various sections related to Production workers Developmental Milieu is greater than the population The test used is z test for proportions. Test statistics: Here P1 = sample proportion of managers who agree to various sections related to satisfaction, P2 = the proportion of workers who agree to various sections related to satisfaction, p= Overall proportion, m = sample size of managers = 248, n = sample size of workers = 361 Calculation table: Since p value is less than 0.05 for only one factor ‗PLPM ensures Worker welfare to such an extent that the Workers can save a lot of their mental energy for work purposes‘; the null hypothesis is rejected for the mentioned factor only.

The population proportion of managers who agree to ‗PLPM ensures Worker welfare to such an extent that the Workers can save a lot of their mental energy for work purposes‘ is greater than the population proportion of workers who agree to the same. The population proportion of managers who agree to various sections related to Production workers Developmental Milieu is equal to the population proportion of workers who agree to various sections related to Production workers Developmental Milieu. Since majority of parameters the hypothesis for hypothesis ‗Management‘s perception and workers perceptions towards Production workers Developmental Milieu are different‘ is non-significant so hypothesis is rejected. Management‘s perception and workers perceptions towards Production workers Developmental Milieu are different. As a result Hypothesis is rejected

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