Professional Documents
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On
“A STUDY OF EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AT
EMAMI,GUWHATI”
Submitted to
Session 2017-2020
Dispur College
1
Guwahati
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
DECLARATION
Date:
Lakshyajyoti Phukon
It was an extremely bold step in the early seventies when the Indian FMCG
market was still dominated by multinationals. Several such companies
headquartered in Kolkata were considering shifting out of West Bengal
due to labor unrest and political problems. But against all odds with a
vision of combining the age old wisdom of Ayurveda with modern
manufacturing techniques for creating winning brands, the company was
started with a meager amount of Rs. 20,000.
Emami Talcum, Emami Vanishing Cream and Emami Cold Cream were
great favorite brands with the quality conscious consumers in the mid-
seventies. The company soon became adept in selling beautiful dreams to
Indian women interested in finding their own identity. The signature tune
of Emami played over radio and TV became a household favourite.
4 MOTIVATION 23-32
9 BIBLIOGRAPHY 60
As Mr. Rick Pitino says "The only way to get people to like working hard
is to motivate them.Today, people must understand why they're working
hard. Every individual in an organization is motivated by something
different."
Employee motivation is thus considered as a major task for every manager,
to motivate his/her subordinates and to create the ‘will to work’ among
them, by well analysing their needs and adopting various forms of
Management Systemthat may help create an urge/force to work better. It
should be remembered that a worker may be immensely capable of doing
some work but nothing can be achieved if he is not willing to work.
The objectives are the guidelines on which the whole project is based. The
following are few of the important objectives :
The aforesaid objectives must be important and must help to evaluate the
study. The importance of the objectives are:
This helps in finding out what kind of Management System are adopted
in the company and how much effective they are.
This helps in finding out how well the organization has communicated
its goals/objectives set and also the efforts on the part of the employees
to achieve them fruitfully.
This helps revealing the hidden potential, needs and wants of the
employees which if nurtured properly can be beneficial both for the
employee’s and organization’s overall growth.
The area of study comprises of the lower level factory workers and the
office staff. This was so, because these two are the best indicators of the
study at the manufacturing level.
The study has formed the base or foundation for other researchers to
undertake research in similar areas.
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1.5 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY :
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
A study cannot be free from hassles. There are always barriers that prevent
the smooth flow of the study. There were some limitations which occurred
while conducting the study. These are as follows :
The time period is one of the major drawbacks, i.e., the time period of
the study was only 2 months which was very less in conducting a
research report and hence, it was not possible to cover each and every
sampling unit of the entire population (i.e. the entire workforce of the
organization).
Another major drawback was that, the survey was time consuming
because the questions had to be translated and explained in details to
the respondents (especially the lower level factory workers) as the
language of the questionnaire (English) was not understandable by
them.
The working timings and duties of the factory workers get shifted and
therefore they are not available when needed which caused a
hindrance in the free flow of the survey.
The SAMPLE SIZE is the total number of sampling units selected from the
population. The sample size is ‘60’ i.e. ‘60’ respondents were intervied by
the researcher.
1. Survey method
2. Observation method
3. Experimentation method
ORGANIZATIONAL
2 PROFILE
The inception of Emami Group took place way back in mid seventies when
two childhood friends, Mr. R.S. Agarwal and Mr. R.S. Goenka left their
high profile jobs with the Birla Group to set up Kemco Chemicals, an
Ayurvedic medicine and cosmetic manufacturing unit in Kolkata in 1974.
It was an extremely bold step in the early seventies when the Indian FMCG
market was still dominated by multinationals. Several such companies
headquartered in Kolkata were considering shifting out of West Bengal
due to labor unrest and political problems. But against all odds with a
vision of combining the age old wisdom of Ayurveda with modern
manufacturing techniques for creating winning brands, the company was
started with a meager amount of Rs. 20,000.
Emami Talcum, Emami Vanishing Cream and Emami Cold Cream were
great favorite brands with the quality conscious consumers in the mid-
seventies. The company soon became adept in selling beautiful dreams to
Indian women interested in finding their own identity. The signature tune
of Emami played over radio and TV became a household favourite.
Nineties, was very eventful for Emami. The next flagship brand of the
company Navratna Cool Oil came in the nineties under the Himani
Umbrella and the second factory was opened at Pondicherry to expand
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production. Navratna over the years has become a market leader in the
The Emami group realizing its social responsibility commenced its two
trusts-Bansilal Janki Devi Agarwal Trust and KesarDev Ratni Devi
Goenka Trust to generate funds for social and medical needs. As a part of
company's Corporate Social Responsibility, Emami has devised various
Self Employment schemes like Emami Mobile Traders and Small Village
Shops schemes.
The Emami group has taken a giant step into a field not ventured by them
so far, that is, the field of medicine. The former frank rose limited is now a
member of emami group, and manufactures ethical life saving drugs.
The EMAMI brand is endorsed by a number of famous celebrities both from the film
and sports industry such as SHAHRUKH KHAN, AMITABH BACCHAN,
KAREENA KAPOOR, MADHURI DIXIT, SAURAV GANGULY etc.
It has a built area of 14580 sq. mt. in a land area of 10580 sq. mt.
The unit is ISO 9001:2000 and GMP certified.
Emami’s existing plant at Amingaon in Assam produces:
100crore sachets of Navaratna Oil
25crore Boroplus Antiseptic Cream, Fair and Handsome tubes
19crore Boroplus Antiseptic Cream, and Fair and Handsome sachets
1.8crore bottles of Menthoplus Balm
3.5 crore bottles of Navaratna oil and
2.5crore bottles of Boroplus lotion per annum.
REGISTRATION
REGISTRATION 1st stAugust 2003
1 August 2003
DATE OF 27ththSeptember’2003
DATE OF 27 September’2003
INCEPTION
INCEPTION
Executive- 13
CATEGORIES Executive- 13
CATEGORIES Staff- 37
OF EMPLOYEES Staff- 37
OF EMPLOYEES Non-staff- 40
Non-staff- 40
Workers- 84
Workers- 84
“A company, with the help of nature, caters to the consumer’s needs and
their inner cravings for dreams of better life in the fields of personal
health care, both in India and through out the world.”
MISSION :
To recruit, develop and motivate the best talents in the country and
provide them with an environment that is demanding and
challenging.
To bring down the political boundaries, bridge the seas and emerge
as a
significant player in the markets world wide to globalize in terms.
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3.6 View of “Factory floor”… EMAMI LTD., Amingaon
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
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Motivation
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
4 .1 WHAT IS MOTIVATION?
Now days employees have been hired, trained and remunerated, Hence,
they need to be motivated for better performance. People are motivated
towards rewards, something they can relate to and something they can
believe in. Times have changed, people wants more. Motivated employees
are always looking for better ways to do a job. It is the responsibility of
managers to make employees look for better ways of doing their jobs.
Issuance of well conceived instructions and orders does not mean that they
will be followed.
4 .2 IMPORTANCE OF MOTIVATION
The rate of labour turnover and absenteeism among the workers will
be minimal and even help change negative or indifferent attitudes of
employees to positive attitudes through justified recognition and
reward for work done, which further helps retain talented workforce
and reduce the cost of new recruitment and training.
4 .3 TYPES OF MOTIVATION
4 .4 MOTIVATION THEORIES
The following are the most historic well- known theories of motivation:-
MASLOW’S HERZBERG’S
McGREGOR’S VROOM’S
NEED MOTIVATION
PARTICIPATION EXPECTANCY
HIERARCHY HYGIENE
THEORY THEORY
THEORY THEORY
The intellectual basis for most of motivation thinking has been provided
by behavioral scientist, A.H Maslow is based on the human needs, whose
published works are the
“Bible of Motivation”.
Although Maslow himself did not apply his theory to industrial situation,
it has wide impact for beyond academic circles. The crux of Maslow’s
theory is that human needs are arranged in hierarchy composed of five
categories. The lowest needs are physiological and the highest are the self-
actualization needs. Maslow starts with the formation that man is a
wanting animal with a hierarchy of needs of which some are lower in scale
and some are in a higher scale or system of values. As the lower needs are
readily satisfied, higher needs emerge.
A satisfied need is not a motivator. Hierarchy of needs, the main needs are
five (5). They are as under :-
Self-esteem needs
Social needs
Safety needs
Physiological needs
injury. Such needs are generally met by safety laws, measure of social
security, protective labor laws and collective agreements.
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Achievement
Recognition
Responsibility
Advancement
Growth
Work itself
Supervision
Interpersonal Relations
Working Conditions
Salary*
Status
Security
Through this theory X and Y, he tried to outline the extremes to draw the
fencing within which the organizational man is usually seen to behave.
The fact remains that no organizational man would actually belong either
to theory X or theory Y. In reality, he/she shares the traits of both. A man
swings from one set or properties to the other with changes in his mood
and motives in changing environment.
Being the model multiplicative in nature, all three variables must have
high positive values to imply motivated performance choice. If any one of
the variables approaches to zero level, the possibility of the so motivated
performance also touches zero level.
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MANAGEMENT SYSTEMADOPTED BY
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
EMAMI LTD., Amingaon (Guwahati)
The organisation also takes strict and justified actions such as punishments
in the forms of dismisal, retenchment, etc for all, to create a fear of being
thrown out if involved in unfair activities and to create a feeling among the
workers that all the employees irrespective
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religion are ‘same in the eyes of the management’. This is a form of
The unit also celebrates Vishwakarma puja every year as a major fest day
in the company through which workers and their family members get a
chance to portray their talents in various forms such as dancing, singing,
painting, drama acts etc. The employees performing to the best of their
ability, are appreciated with rewards and recognition on this day, which
motivates other employees to give their best in their work.
Particulars % of respondents
Highly satisfied 42%
Satisfied 32%
Neutral 23%
Dissatisfied 3%
Highly dissatisfied -
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that 42% of the respondents
are highly satisfied with their respective job assigned, 32% of them are
satisfied, whereas 23% and 3% of them are neutral and dissatisfied
respectively.
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that 38% of the respondents
are motivated by the financial incentives and 62% of them are motivated
by the non-financial incentives.
Interpretation: The above table and dig. Shows that amongst the non-
financial incentives, promotion and growth motivates the employees the
highest(28%) followed by competitions(22%), group recognition(17%), job
enrichment(10%), worker’s participation and appreciation of work(both
8%) and the least by status(7%).
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that 54% of the respondents
are highly motivated, 33% are partially motivated and 13% have neutral
reaction. It is indeed a good sign to see that non of the employees are de-
motivated.
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that the employees are
uncomfortable mainly with the wages/salary provided, as its response in
favour of ‘NO’for this factor is highest by 40% compared to the work
environment(7%),job security(13.33%), trainings and communication with
their trainers(10%), factors taken. Whereas the employees are highly
comfortable with the work environment factor as the response towars
‘YES’ for this factor is highest by 93.33%, followed by trainings and
communication with trainers(90%), job security(87%) and wages (60%).
Obstacles % Of Respondents
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health problems 33%
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that health problems(33%)
is the major reson that often stop the employees from performing to the
best effect, followed by personal
problems(31%),boredom(12%),workload(10%), work environment
problem(7%) and co-worker conflict(5%), insufficient knowledge about
work assigned(2%).
Tools % of respondents
Training 21%
Justified performance appraisal
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8%
competitions 20%
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
Decentralization of responsibility 6%
and authority
Regular wage payment and 17%
increment
Superior assistance and strict 20%
supervision
Disciplined and systematic work 8%
structure
Interpretation: The table and fig.in the previous page shows that
Trainings(of various kinds) is the most effective and regular tool adopted
for motivating the employees reported by 21% of the sample size
respondents followed by competitions(of various kinds) and superior
constant assistance and strict supervision (20%), regular wage payment
and increment(17%), justified performance appraisal,disciplined and
systematic work structure (both 8%) and decentralisation of responsibilty
and authority(6%).
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Particulars % of respondents
very good 17%
Good 46%
Neutral 32%
Bad 5%
Very bad -
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9. An attempt to know what employees like the best and the least
about their respective job.
Particulars % of respondents
Freedom to work 17%
Systematic working 15%
Time bound 15%
Team spirit 25%
Scope for learning different things
2 28%
Particulars % of respondents
Excessive work load 36%
Monotonous work 41%
Lacks specialisation of work 23%
Particulars % of respondents
Enjoys 80%
Family pressure 15%
Oranisational pressure 5%
Yes(%) 100%
No(%) -
Particulars % of respondents
Training in material management course 2%
Spoken english classes 2 27%
Coaching for personality development 19%
Emami Ltd., Amingaon
SAP training 8%
Computer basics and fundamentals training 15%
MBA 6%
Higher secondary and under graduate 13%
education
Not interested at all 10%
Interpretation: The above table and fig. Shows that learning of Spoken
English is wanted by the highest number of respondents with 27%,
followed by personality development coaching (19%), computer
training(basic and fundamental), higher secondary and UG education, SAP
training, material mgt. Course training with 15%, 13%, 8%, 2%
respectively. Whereas 10% of them are not interested at all for anything.
7. 1 FINDINGS :
80% of the employees enjoy the work they are doing whereas
15% do it under family pressure and 5% under organizational
pressure.
100% ‘yes’ from the respondents prove that they are readily
satisfied with the statutory benefits provided to them by the
organization.
From the survey analysis it has been found that 27% of the
employees are interested in learning Spoken English, 19%
interested in taking coaching for personality development, 15%
in computer basics and fundamentals training, 13% in higher
secondary and under graduate education, 8% in SAP training,
6% in pursuing MBA, 2% interested in taking training in
material management course and 10% are not interested in
anything.
Elton Mayo found that the social contacts a worker has at the
workplace are very important and that boredom and repetitiveness
of tasks lead to reduced motivation. Similarly, the study reveals that
health problems, personal problems, boredom, work load, work
environment problem, co-worker conflicts and insufficient
knowledge about work are some of the obstacles that the employees
usually face.
Hence, concern should be shown to rectify the problems by
providing close moral support to boost up worker’s enthusiasm to
work, maintain proper ventillated,accident
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7.3 CONCLUSION :
8 .1 QUESTIONNAIRE
Sir/Madam,
Sneha Deb.
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5. What obstacles stop you from performing to the best effect? Do the
Human Resource Department give due care to eliminate your obstacles?
7. What are the tools adopted for motivating you in your organization
currently and in past? Are you satisfied with it?
8. How is your relationship with your supervisor? What are the constraints
(if any)?
9. What do you like best or least about your job? And why?
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12. Are you provided with statutory benefits (like ESI, PF, BONUS,
GRATUITY, EARN LEAVE etc)? Are you satisfied with it? If not, what
more do you think is required?
13. Are you interested for any educational or training programs apart from
what is provided at the Amingaon unit in order to motivate you for your
overall development?
8 .2 BIBLIOGRAPHY
BOOKS :
Khanka S.S
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Human Resource Management
SEARCH ENGINES :
www.emamigroup.com
www.wikipidia.com