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Culture Documents
A
study of select Hospitality Organizations in West Bengal.
By
P.R.Sandilyan
Professor/Research Scholar
NSHM School of Hotel Management
Durgapur-12
Tel: 03432533813/14/16
Mail ID: ganesh_pr2001@yahoo.co.in
Amitabh Dey
Professor/Research Scholar
Principal – NSHM School of Hotel Management
Arrah, shibtola, Durgapur – 713212
TEL: +91-9933049428
MAIL ID: amitabh.dey@nshm.com
Gautam Bandopadhyay
Assistant Professor
National Institute of Technology
(Deemed University)
Durgapur
Tel: 03432544805
Mail ID: math_gb@yahoo.co.in
Amit Datta
Assisstant Professor/Research Scholar
NSHM School of Hotel Management
Durgapur-12
Tel: 03432533813/14/16
MAIL ID: amit.datta@nshm.com
Krishnendu Hazra
Associate Professor/Research Scholar
NSHM School of Hotel Management
Durgapur-12
Tel: 03432533813/14/16
MAIL ID: krishnendu.hazra@nshm.com
Manojit Mitra
Research Scholar
National Institute of Technology
(Deemed University), Durgapur
Tel: 03432544805
Mail ID: manojit.mitra@nshm.com
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Title - Employee Perception of work environment and welfare activities of the
organization. A study of select Hospitality Organizations in West Bengal.
Abstract
In today’s world most employers are aware that employees constitute a key part of the business
and are indispensable to the success of the business and the organization. Large multinational
companies as well as small employers recognize this fact and take keen interest in the welfare
and satisfaction of the employees. Even though a lot of effort is taken in this regard by the
management, it is always not in line with what the employees perceive as best for them. Here an
attempt is made to study this need from the view of the employees especially from the hospitality
sector as this segment of the market faces a lot of varying and stretchable working hours. Also
hospitality sector employees would face extremely tough conditions to work in some areas like
kitchens, cold rooms and other areas, where work is labor intensive.
Some literature has been extracted from earlier publications, (Human Resource Management,
11th edition, Gary Dessler and Biju Varkkey) Internet and books on Human Resource
Management. This literature and sample data based research will offer insight into the
expectations of the employees and help Hospitality Managers to better understand the needs of
the employees and come up with an appropriate policy towards employee welfare and proper
work conditions. Other suitable remedies to improve the working environment may be also
This study is to determine what the expectations of these employees from their management are
and how far the incentives and rewards policy of the company matches these expectations. This
study will help to bring about a better understanding of employee needs and help in better
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delivery of service as well as limit the attrition of employees. The need to pursue further studies
Environment.
The aim of this study is to try and actually understand the perceptions of employees on what the
organization believes to be its welfare activities and the actual working conditions. This will help
hospitality organizations to understand the requirements of employees and design their welfare
1.0 Introduction
Today everyone is aware of the significance of human resources for any organization, and in the
extremely competitive global business environment, it is very much a huge challenge to keep
employees satisfied and motivated. One of the prime motivating factors other than money and
incentives is the kind of work environment provided and benefits accorded to the employees.
Employers and Human resource managers have come up with various practices and processes to
provide these facilities to their employees and have been successful too in their aim. However as
a lot of money is spent in these activities and also without doubt a lot of time is involved, it goes
without saying that employers would like to get the best value in terms of ROI (Return of
Investment) for this money spent. Hence it becomes imperative that employees are involved in
making such decisions that concerns their welfare and benefit. As there would be no financial
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return of Investment for the money spent for this purpose, it must necessarily show its effect on
the motivation and satisfaction and reduced attrition rate of employees. This study is undertaken
to actually learn from employees about the kind of work environment and benefits that they feel
are needed to them and match it with what they are getting from their employers so that the gap
if any could be minimized for better functionality and usefulness of the policies and schemes.
Anil Bhatt/Arya Kumar (2008) (Management Principles, Processes and Practices, 4th edition, Pg:
no 232), Organizational cultural and the relationship with bosses emanating from the quality of
supervision is also a critical factor in reducing attrition rate. Exit interviews sometimes reveal
that employees feel that they lack and identity in the organization provide opportunities for
employs to share their knowledge via training sessions, presentations, mentoring others and team
assignment .above all, the BPO sector should endeavor to have a work leisure balance by taking
David a .Decenzo / Stephen P. Robbins (1998) (Personnel Human Resource Management 3rd
edition P. no 469), The list of the services that an organization can provide its employees is only
limited by the imagination of management. Retail stores for example, usually provide some
forms of discount to employees when they buy goods in there store. The vast majority of large
organizations provide some form of educational assistance traditionally in the form of tuition
refunds, for employees who take job related courses or are working toward a degree in an
accredited college or university. Tuition refunds are usually geared to pay some percentage of
reimbursement best on relevance of the course to an individual’s work and whether it is part of a
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degree program, and they are usually contingent on the attainment of some satisfactory grade in
the course.
Mirza S Saiyadain (1988) (Human Resource Management 3rd edition Pg.no 408), welfare
amenities: A number of amenities, which clubbed together under welfare are highlighted in the
chapter five of factory act 1948.sections 42 to 48 of the act makes it obligatory on the
organization to provide washing facilities for storing and drying cloths, facility for sitting, first
aid appliances, canteen, shelter, rest room, lunch rooms and crèches. Other facilities such as
drinking water, toilet sanitation or conservancy facilities for which minimum standard are
provided in factories.
V S P Rao (2000) (Human Resource Management Text & Cases 2nd edition Pg 448), the working
environment in factory adversely affects the health of employees because of excessive heat or
cold, noise, fumes, dust and lack of sanitation and pure air. such oppressive condition create
health problems for workers. These have to contain through preventive steps aimed at improving
the lot of workers. A second reason in favors of welfare work is called the social invasion of the
factory. Workers face lots of adjustment problems when they take up factory work the congested
enirons,noisy machines ,slum areas ,monotonous jobs impact the psyche of realities who come to
the cities in search of jobs .to escape from such trying condition ,the worker absent
himself,becames irregular and shows signs of indiscipline. Such changes known as the social
invasion of the factory call for extra inducements in the work place in addition to normal wages,
so that the worker begins to enjoy a fuller and richer life. Another social reason pointed out by
the labor investigation committee reads thus “the provision of canteens improves the physique
entertainment reduces the incident of vices, medical aid maternity and child welfare services
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improve the health of worker and bring down the rates of general, maternal and infantile
mortality , and educational facility their mental efficiency and economic productivity.
Welfare measure may also be provided by the government, trade unions and non government
agencies in addition to the employer .the basic purpose of labor welfare is to enrich the life of
employees and keep them happy and contented. Welfare measure be both statutory and
voluntary.labour laws required the employer to extend certain benefits to employees in addition
to wages voluntary benefits are the result of employer generosity enlightenment and
philanthropic feelings.
CS Venkata Ratanam /BK Srivastava (personnel management and human resource fifth edition
pg 203), Working condition include all aspects of work, physical, social, economic ,technical,
legal and human the physical condition referred to climatic factors and include not only aspect
like ventilation and temperature, but also physical facility at work such as canteen, rest rooms,
crèche. The social aspect related to work, which group composition etc. the economic aspect
relate to wages, benefits technical aspects related to the kind technology used the legal aspect
relate to contractual obligation which are mutual and reciprocal. the human aspect relate to the
Expert from the report of The National Commission on Labour (1969), in our country as
populous as ours, there can be danger of a tendency developing to discount the value of human
life. It losses in accident or through the slow and agonizing process of an occupational disease
may not stir a community as much as it would in counties with chronic lab our shortage, though
the near once it is a tragic occurrence. Relief gets organized after the event ,but prevention get
side tracked. We have noticed in the years since independence, a welcome improvement in such
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public attitude, but these has been slow and brought about largely through shocks administered
by serious happening.
Biswajeet Pattanayak (2005) ( Human Resource Management 3rd edition pg no 275), The
management in every organization should sincerely invite their employees to suggest way to
improve their operation and the quality of their work life only if these idea are received in a spirit
of appreciation. The employees should then be asked to participate in studying and feasibility
and recommend appropriate means of implementing each suggestion that survive such reviews
the quality of life at work probably would be then be enhanced, quality assurance customers
Quality work life is not to be confused with some socio political concept of democratic
management mangers who have evidence of concern for quality work life continue to be
accountable for carrying out their activity if they learn that inviting opinion or collective wisdom
in problem solving or decision making from the persons they supervise is likely to lead to better
quality and acceptance of those solution or decision they became better managers.
Dr. Parandikar (Human Resource Management Text & Cases 2nd edition Pg 448) labor welfare
work is work for improving the health, safety and general well being and the industrial efficiency
of the workers beyond the maximum standard lay down by the labor legislation.
3.0 Methodology
This work is based on primary data collected from employees directly by means of a
questionnaire. Employees across various levels of employment and category were asked to
respond to a series of questions on work environment and employee welfare activities in their
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organization. Initially these responses were scanned and their reliability was checked. Further the
responses were analyzed to check if they fell into any pattern. Factor analysis confirmed that on
two questions the responses across all segments and establishments was similar. Further the
average of the responses to other questions was used for statistical analysis to draw appropriate
The data collected was averaged for its responses. Crosstab analysis was performed to check the
Count
income segment
0-1 lakh/yr 1-2 lakh/yr 2-3 lakh/yr 3-5 lakh/yr above 5 lakhs Total
25-30 yrs 8 6 2 3 5 24
31-35 yrs 1 4 7 4 0 16
36-40yrs 2 7 0 7 3 19
above 40 yrs 0 0 2 3 2 7
Total 36 22 11 20 10 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
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Chi-Square Tests
a. 18 cells (72.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is .71.
Chi-Square tests proved the interdependency of some of the attributes chosen for analyzing
the data. Hence as the 4th column showed a numeric value of less than 0.5 it was justified
Dependent Variable:Average
Total 135.535 98
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Post Hoc Tests
age group
Homogeneous Subsets
Average
Tukey B
Subset
age group N 1 2 3 4
36-40yrs 19 1.0132
income segment
Homogeneous Subsets
Average
Tukey B
Subset
income segment N 1 2 3
Profile Plots
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5.0 Results and Inference
By the help of the data analysis which was mainly done using SPSS software and two-way
Almost all employees across all categories preferred to have money rather than other
There was no dependency of income with gender which denoted a very welcome feature
Mostly all employees were in agreement that they were trained to meet emergency
Lower income group employees were more inclined to disagree with working conditions
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Many expressed their dissatisfaction towards maintenance of safety equipments, staff
areas, washrooms and other facilities in the low income group and junior category level
of employment.
Many junior employees were not provided with benefits that were available to senior
category employees.
growth available.
There was a clear difference of opinion about the work environment between the junior
Employee responses revealed that many new joiners were not trained to work on
equipments properly.
Location also had an effect on the income levels and appropriately on benefits and
6.0 Conclusion
From the data collected and the statistical analysis it was possible to draw out certain inferences
which in turn can assist to draw the following conclusions. Firstly there appeared to be no bias
on gender which spoke favorably for the hospitality establishments. Second striking fact that was
revealed was that almost all employees universally preferred money in hand in comparison to
other benefits. The working conditions of lower income employees, specially the junior category
were not up to their expectations and well maintained. The organizations should plan and invest
more in this area to provide clean and healthy work conditions for their employees. Senior
employees on the other hand were more apt to be satisfied with the work conditions. Middle
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level employees were more or less in line with the upper group and more positive in their
responses. This shows that most organizations had separate facilities for junior and senior
employees and more care was taken for the senior category. Also as many low income group
respondents disagreed with being provided facilities like health insurance, PF, children’s
education etc., it seems that many of these employees were on contract or on consolidated pay
structure and hence were not too pleased with the benefits and welfare activities. Senior and mid
segment employees were more or less satisfied with the same. The organizations must therefore
abstain from using employees as cheap labor and try to cultivate all employees on a proper pay
structure and employee rolls to provide them with appropriate welfare means and opportunities
for their growth. Employers must come out of the labor market concept and give employees their
dues across all categories. While mostly the employees are happy with the training to meet
exigencies, employers must concentrate on keeping the frontline employees happy with better
facilities and working conditions to keep their morale high and get the best for the organization.
This would go a long way to provide them a high ROI on what they spend for employee welfare.
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7.0 References
Dr. Parandikar , Human Resource Management Text & Cases 2nd edition
CS Venkata Ratanam /BK Srivastava Personnel Management and Human Resource fifth
edition
V S P Rao (2000) Human Resource Management Text & Cases 2nd edition
3rd edition
Anil Bhatt/Arya Kumar (2008) Management Principles, Processes and Practices, 4th
edition
Gary Dessler and Biju Varkkey, Human Resource Management, 11th edition
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Appendix 1 CHI-SQUARE TESTS
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=age BY income
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
age group * income segment Crosstabulation
Count
income segment
0-1 lakh/yr 1-2 lakh/yr 2-3 lakh/yr 3-5 lakh/yr above 5 lakhs Total
25-30 yrs 8 6 2 3 5 24
31-35 yrs 1 4 7 4 0 16
36-40yrs 2 7 0 7 3 19
above 40 yrs 0 0 2 3 2 7
Total 36 22 11 20 10 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 18 cells (72.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is .71.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=age BY education
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
age group * qualifications Crosstabulation
Count
qualifications Total
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UG G PG Professional
25-30 yrs 8 5 6 5 24
31-35 yrs 1 1 7 7 16
36-40yrs 2 0 6 11 19
above 40 yrs 0 0 3 4 7
Total 28 15 25 31 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 10 cells (50.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is 1.06.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=income BY education
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
income segment * qualifications Crosstabulation
Count
qualifications
UG G PG Professional Total
1-2 lakh/yr 0 4 5 13 22
2-3 lakh/yr 0 2 3 6 11
3-5 lakh/yr 0 1 13 6 20
above 5 lakhs 0 1 4 5 10
Total 28 15 25 31 99
Chi-Square Tests
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Asymp. Sig. (2-
Value df sided)
a
Pearson Chi-Square 91.516 12 .000
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 10 cells (50.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is 1.52.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=income BY gender
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
income segment * gender Crosstabulation
Count
gender
1-2 lakh/yr 17 5 22
2-3 lakh/yr 9 2 11
3-5 lakh/yr 17 3 20
above 5 lakhs 7 3 10
Total 77 22 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 4 cells (40.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is 2.22.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=age BY gender
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
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/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
age group * gender Crosstabulation
Count
gender
25-30 yrs 20 4 24
31-35 yrs 13 3 16
36-40yrs 17 2 19
above 40 yrs 6 1 7
Total 77 22 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 3 cells (30.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is 1.56.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=ec BY gender
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
employee category (junior, middle or senior) * gender Crosstabulation
Count
gender
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SENIOR 10 3 13
Total 77 22 99
Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 1 cells (16.7%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is 2.89.
CROSSTABS
/TABLES=ec BY loc
/FORMAT=AVALUE TABLES
/STATISTICS=CHISQ
/CELLS=COUNT
Crosstabs
employee category (junior, middle or senior) * location Crosstabulation
Count
location
GREATER
KOLKATA DURGAPUR KOLKATA BURDWAN OTHERS Total
SENIOR 11 2 0 0 0 13
Total 52 25 7 7 8 99
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Chi-Square Tests
N of Valid Cases 99
a. 10 cells (66.7%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected
count is .92.
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Appendix 2 Two-way ANOVA
Dependent Variable:Average
Total 135.535 98
Dependent Variable:Average
age group income segment Mean Std. Error Lower Bound Upper Bound
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1-2 lakh/yr -.111 .197 -.503 .281
a. This level combination of factors is not observed, thus the corresponding population marginal mean
is not estimable.
Tukey B
Subset
age group N 1 2 3 4
36-40yrs 19 1.0132
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above 40 yrs 6 1.5417
income segment
Homogeneous Subsets
Average
Tukey B
Subset
income segment N 1 2 3
Profile Plots
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UNIANOVA Average BY income education
/METHOD=SSTYPE(3)
/INTERCEPT=INCLUDE
/POSTHOC=income education(BTUKEY)
/PLOT=PROFILE(income*education)
/EMMEANS=TABLES(income*education)
/PRINT=HOMOGENEITY
/CRITERIA=ALPHA(.05)
Dependent Variable:Average
Total 135.535 98
Dependent Variable:Average
income segment Qualifications Mean Std. Error Lower Bound Upper Bound
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Professional .429 .142 .147 .712
a
2-3 lakh/yr UG . . . .
a. This level combination of factors is not observed, thus the corresponding population marginal mean
is not estimable.
Tukey B
Subset
income segment N 1 2 3
qualifications
Homogeneous Subsets
Average
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Tukey B
Subset
qualifications N 1 2 3 4
UG 28 -.8869
G 15 .4111
Professional 30 .8972
PG 25 1.3200
Profile Plots
/DESIGN=income ec income*ec.
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Univariate Analysis of Variance
Tests of Between-Subjects Effects
Dependent Variable:Average
Total 135.535 98
Dependent Variable:Average
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SENIOR 1.500 .365 .774 2.226
a
above 5 lakhs JUNIOR . . . .
a
MIDDLE . . . .
a. This level combination of factors is not observed, thus the corresponding population marginal
mean is not estimable.
Tukey B
Subset
income segment N 1 2 3
Tukey B
employee Subset
category
(junior,
middle or
senior) N 1 2 3
JUNIOR 54 -.2670
MIDDLE 32 1.1302
SENIOR 12 1.6250
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Average
Tukey B
employee Subset
category
(junior,
middle or
senior) N 1 2 3
JUNIOR 54 -.2670
MIDDLE 32 1.1302
SENIOR 12 1.6250
Profile Plots
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/EMMEANS=TABLES(income*loc)
/PRINT=HOMOGENEITY
/CRITERIA=ALPHA(.05)
Dependent Variable:Average
Total 135.535 98
Dependent Variable:Average
income segment Location Mean Std. Error Lower Bound Upper Bound
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2-3 lakh/yr KOLKATA 1.222 .208 .808 1.637
a. This level combination of factors is not observed, thus the corresponding population marginal mean is not
estimable.
Tukey B
Subset
income segment N 1 2 3
location
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Homogeneous Subsets
Average
Tukey B
Subset
location N 1 2 3
BURDWAN 7 -.4405
OTHERS 8 -.4167
DURGAPUR 25 .7767
Profile Plots
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