Friday, June 5, 2015

STUDY ON WORK SATISFICATION AMONG IMMIGRANT LABOURs IN THRISSUR DISTRICT







CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY












 1.1 INTRODUCTION
According to research study, there are over 25,00,000 domestic
Migrant labourers in Kerala. Migrant labourers are those who come from other states for work. A large number of migrants from states like west Bengal, Orissa, Tamilnadu, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, etc come to Kerala in search of employment. The employee’s satisfaction is central to achieving a successful and prosperous organization. Interstate migrant is a social hazard. The migrant workers are subjected to exploitation and they are paid less wages. These people do not stay permanently at any one place. They do work in a place and leave for new work once the assignment is over. Untidy and unhealthy environment they are prone to various diseases. They don’t bother about their health, wage or environment. Some is the condition of women workers who are recruited from Kerala to work in North India. If a migrant worker is not satisfied with his present job they may arise different problems.
          In our state there is a shortage of local labour and the availed labour want higher wages. And more of the people prefer higher level of job. These reasons influence the migrant labourers to come to our state.
          Our state is like a gulf to migrant employees. Because of higher wages compared to their native place. This is the main reason for leaving their native place. In addition to that, the migrant workers earnings are far better than their daily wages in native place.

1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.     To know the satisfaction level of migrant employees.
2.     To know the various benefits of migrant employees.
3.     To know the facilities, provided to the migrant employees.
4.     To know the satisfaction level of migrant employees with regard to their payment.














1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The study is concerned at Thrissur District. Now a day’s migrant labourers are important factor in the state. Labourer migration to Kerala needs attention because Kerala herself is facing acute unemployment. The District statistics shows that large scale migrant labourers are entering Kerala from Rajasthan, Tamilnadu, Orissa, Jharkand, West Bengal, etc. the migrant labourers satisfaction is necessary for every field of work. They are mainly involved in works like construction, quarry, and mining, road works, gold works etc. the study is done to help, understand the causes and consequences of migrant labourers dissatisfaction more specifically. It examines the impact of their satisfaction on the overall performance of the present job. The working and living conditions of the migrant labours are packed, in small labourers camps and up to 6 or 8 people in a small room. The accommodation provide by the employer is not too much good because more people living in a small room.








1.4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF THE STUDY
Research methodology is cognized as the science of studying the way research is undertaken scientifically to solve the referred problem systematically. It is also referred to as the procedure of research or research techniques, including methods of collecting and handling data.
Data is a numerical facts or data of a research problem. These data are raw materials for the final statistical conclusion and the quality of data will greatly affect the collection, in view of the research objectives, the research methodology adopted during the research process. Primary and secondary data collection methods are used to the collection of data.











1.5 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
1.     Non-availability of time
2.     Non availability of secondary  data
3.     Women respondents were shy as well as afraid to respond
4.     The topic “migrant labourers job satisfaction is a wide subject. Due to the non availability of time and cost. We cannot include all the information for the study.
                                                        
















CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW









LITERATURE REVIEW
1)    LITERATURE STUDY ON MIGRANT WORKERS -European Agency for Safety and Health at Work
                  The ILO highlights three important reasons why OSH issues are of specific interest for migrant workers
1. The high employment rates of migrant workers in high-risk sectors.
2. Language and cultural barriers, which require specific OSH communication, instructions and training approaches.
3. They often work overtime and/or are in poor health and thus more prone to occupational diseases and injuries.

2)    HOW SATISFIED ARE IMMIGRANTS WITH THEIR JOBS AND BENEFITS?- The Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI)
              CONCLUSIONS
Clearly, only tentative conclusions can be reached from the data compiled in this report. In part, this is because immigrant status, period of arrival, ethnoracial group and gender are only a few of the factors that might contribute to job satisfaction. It is also worth bearing in mind that the data provided here represent a relatively small sample of employed immigrants that does not differentiate between permanent residents, naturalized Canadian citizens and visa holders. In addition, it is obviously important to note that these data relate only to individuals with jobs, rather those who are most economically marginalized because they have not found employment.
 With these caveats in mind, the following conclusions emerge:
·        Only small differences in levels of job satisfaction appear in the data used here between Canadian-born and immigrants. Overall, both are generally satisfied with their jobs and report similar levels of satisfaction.
·        Canadian-born and immigrants are less satisfied with the pay and benefits that they receive from their jobs, even though the majority still reports positive satisfaction levels. The longer immigrants reside in Canada, the higher their satisfaction, especially with regards to benefits and pay. The only exception was for immigrants who had arrived in the early 1990s. They were the least satisfied when asked about their current job.
·         Latin Americans and Blacks had the lowest levels of satisfaction with regards to their job, pay and benefits, while Aboriginals, white and the ‘Other’ category had the highest levels of satisfaction.
·         There are no consistent differences in satisfaction between men and women, except that women report a broader range of satisfaction levels

3)     The Settlement Experiences of Immigrants (Excluding Refugees) In New Zealand: An overview paper completed for the Auckland Regional Settlement Strategy-Anne Henderson
With countries of immigration continuing to recruit skilled labour to fill shortfalls or replace “brain drains”, predictions that the competition for skilled migrants will intensify rather than decline in the future, and the likelihood that economic migration will lead to chain migration of family members and other contacts, the increase in the availability of highly educated (and more visible) migrants from less-developed countries underlines the pressing need to address issues related to settlement and integration. These issues become even more contentious and difficult where host communities are themselves facing economic recession, undergoing major restructuring and grappling with issues of national identity. They need to be addressed, however, if the aims of immigration policy are to be achieved and effective use is to be made of inflows of human capital, since “the [settlement] trajectories of immigrants are largely determined by how they negotiate the obstacles throw up by the native born” (DeWind and Kasinitz, 1997: 1102).

4)       WHAT ARE IMMIGRANTS’ EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE  WORKPLACE- Valerie Preston, Jeanette Chua, Mai Phan, Stella Park, Philip Kelly, Maryse Lemoine
4)
 CONCLUSION
Only tentative conclusions can be reached from the analysis. Language ability, gender, visible minority status, and educational attainment are only some of the many factors that affect perceived discrimination. Language skills as described in this analysis are based on the perceptions of survey respondents themselves. Respondents were asked to determine whether they spoke English or French poorly, fairly well, well or very well, but the categories were not specified. In addition, immigrants’ language abilities are dynamic and they can improve or worsen over time. Finally, the data represent a very specific cohort of immigrants who arrived during a narrow window of time when particular macro-economic circumstances prevailed. In terms of the specific perceived discrimination that we examined, the following conclusions emerge:
·        Immigrants who have postsecondary education perceive more workplace discrimination than those who have less education. When all other variables are held constant, those with postsecondary education are 1.52 times more likely to perceive discrimination than those who have no more than a high school education.
·        Visible minorities with better knowledge of English or French are more likely to perceive workplace discrimination than visible minorities who have limited fluency in an official language. This may imply substantial under-reporting of discrimination among those with weaker language skills.
·        Compared to white immigrants, more visible minority immigrants who speak English or French fluently perceive workplace discrimination.
·        Unlike visible minority immigrants, white immigrants who have limited fluency in English or French are more likely to perceive discrimination in the workplace than white immigrants who can speak an official language fluently. Immigrant men are slightly more likely than immigrant women to perceive discrimination of all types and in the workplace.
·        Immigrant men who report discrimination earn a lower hourly wage and have lower family incomes than immigrant men who do not report discrimination.
·         Immigrant women who report discrimination earn a higher hourly wage but have a lower family income than immigrant women who do not report discrimination.
·         When all other variables are held constant, visible minority immigrants are more than twice as likely to perceive discrimination as white immigrants.
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5)     Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China’s  New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City-Huashu Wang, Lei Pan, Nico Heerink
CONCLUSION
 China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants are increasingly playing a major role in both urbanization and economic development. Their attitudes towards working and living in the cities are different from those of the older generation. The destinations of migrants are also changing as a result of government policies and the global financial crisis. More migrants than before find jobs in medium and small size cities, which are often located in western and central China instead of the coastal region. In this paper we aim to contribute to the design of sustainable migration and urbanisation policies that recognize these new developments by providing insights into the characteristics, working conditions, job satisfaction and other job attitudes of the new generation of migrants, defined as those born in the 1980s and 1990s, as compared the traditional generation in a medium-size city in western China where labour market segmentation between migrants and urban workers is actively being reduced. To this end, we use survey data collected in August 2011 among 1,048 rural migrants in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, to examine four research questions.
Firstly, we examine the extent to which socio-economic and occupational characteristics differ between the two generations of migrants and find a number a significant differences. Our data confirm findings from previous studies that the new generation is better educated. We further find important differences in occupational characteristics between the two generations. New generation migrants are more likely to work as business and service personnel and are more frequently employed by private enterprises, while migrants from the traditional generation are more likely to be unit chiefs or managers, and to be self-employed or work in state-owned or collective enterprises.
Secondly, we use our survey data to examine differences in working conditions and job attitudes between the new generation and traditional generation of migrants. Despite the differences in age, education and job categories between the two generations, we find that there is not much difference in their average income levels. This finding also holds when we take the types of jobs in which the two generations are employed into account. We do find, however, that the new generation of migrants has more insurance at work, receives significantly more on-the-job training, conducts less dangerous or toxic work, and receives more regular health checks than the traditional generation. Job attitudes also differ significantly between the two generations. In contrast to popular beliefs, we find that the level of job satisfaction is significantly higher among the new generation of migrants. Young migrants are also less likely to give up their rights when there is a dispute at work, and more likely to rely on law and government instead of relatives and friends in solving disputes. Despite the higher job satisfaction of  14young migrants, they seem to be more ambitious as they study more in their spare time and are more inclined to change job than the old generation of migrants.
Thirdly, we examine the factors that contribute to the higher degree of job satisfaction among the new generation of migrants. Contrary to previous findings in the international literature, we find that age and gender do not matter for job satisfaction of the young generation. Instead, working conditions play an important role. Among these, it is not so much the income level that matters for young migrants, but other working conditions. Having a formal contract and doing no dangerous or toxic work are important factors that provide job satisfaction to young migrants, but not to older migrants. In addition, young migrants derive job satisfaction from different types of jobs than older migrants do.
      Young migrants working as business and service personnel or as production, transport equipment operators and related workers have significantly higher job satisfaction than those working in the other job categories.
Using these results, we finally examine to what extent the observed differences in job satisfaction between the two generations is related to differences in endowments or to differences in the subjective valuations of factors that contribute to job satisfaction. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, we conclude that it is mainly the difference in endowments that contribute to the higher job satisfaction of young migrants. Among the endowments, especially the differences in working conditions play an important role in the higher job satisfaction of the new generation of migrants.
Differences in family characteristics are another factor that contributes positively to the job satisfaction differential.
The findings of our study have important implications for policy making as well as private enterprise management. They show that young migrants are not as dissatisfied with their jobs as is often believed. There remains scope, however, for further improving the job satisfaction of both older and younger migrants. Our findings suggest that the importance of income for job satisfaction is declining, and that other working conditions are becoming more and more important. These include not only the number of working hours, having insurances, receiving on-the-job-training and no wage defaults, but especially for the new generation also healthy work conditions and having a signed contract.
Improving such working conditions is expected to contribute both to the welfare of rural migrants and to the productivity of the enterprises in which they are employed.










·       Women and migrant labour :
                   Economic condition developing countries have created the need for a new wave of migrant workers, predominantly young females. Turnover rate in many of these migrant jobs is very high due to harsh working conditions. This occurs on both a national and transnational basis.
·       Migrant labour and children :
                   Migrant iabour of women raises special concerns about children. Female migrant workers perform care work abroad while leaving home. The children learn to regard their relatives at home as their own parents. Frequently children of migrant workers themselves. There is concern that this may have negative psychological effects on the children left behind. Although this has not been proven to be entirely true or false, studies have been done which shows that many children of migrant workers manage reasonably well. One theory for why this is states that remittance to some degree make up for the lack of care by providing more resources for food and clothing. Additionally, some migrant mothers take great care in attempting  to maintain relationships while abroad.

·       Migrant education :
                      Children of migrant workers struggle to achieve the same level of educational success as their pees migrant children are also at a disadvantage because the majority live in extreme poverty and most work with their parents to support their families. The language barriers to equal educational attainment for children of workers are present all over the world.


·       Migrant labour force in a economy :
                           It is critical to note that the force that the migrant work force has historically played a vital role nationally and local communities over recent times. The economic globalization has created, the key factors to promote many workers is unemployment and increasing poverty. While developed countries, have increased their demand for labour, especially unskilled labour, the workers from developing countries are used.
















CHAPTER 3
DATA ANALYSIS
AND
INTERPRETATION








TABLE 3.1
KNOELEDGE OF REGIONAL LANGUAGE
RESPONS
No. of respondents
Percentage%
Yes
22
73
No
8
27
Total
30
100


INTERPRETATION: The study reveals that most of the migrant labourers (73%) of knows regional language that is , Malayalam .




TABLE 3.2
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF REASON FOR LEAVING THEIR NATIVE PLACE
Reasons
No. of Respondents
Percentage%
Only job oriented
9
30
Only salary oriented
6
20
Both job &salary
9
30
Family problems
3
10
Unemployment
3
10
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: From the above table we can understand that 20% of the respondents leave their native place for getting high salary. 30% of people leave their native place to attain a job and due to problems related to salary and job . 10% of people leave their native place because of family problems and unemployment.
TABLE 3.3
SETTLED AS A FAMAILY UNIT
Opinion
No. of respondents
Percentage %
Yes
2
7
No
28
93
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: The above table shows that most of the migrants are not settled here with family. From the above data we can understand that only 4% of employees brought children here from this native place and  4 % their children are both working and studying.

              


TABLE 3.4
SUFFERED ANY HEALTH PROBLEM
Opinion
No. of respondents
Percentage %
Yes
0
0
No
30
100
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: From the table is clear that no one suffered any health problems in their present job. There for no treatment facilities for health.  





TABLE 3.5
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF NATURE OF WORK

Opinion
Nature of work
Percentage
Permanent
11
3
Temporary
12
40
Contract
7
23
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: Most of the migrants are temporary and permanent workers in our district 23% of migrant laborers are contract workers.




TABLE 3.6
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF YEARS OF WORKING AT THRISSUR DISTRICT IN KERALA
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
0-1
4
13
1-2
3
10
2-3
14
47
3-4
5
17
4 and more
4
13
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: Major portion of the migrants stayed have here for a period of 2-3 years.



TABLE 3.7
HOURS OF WORK PER DAY
Hours per day
No: of workers
Percentage%
Total hours of work per day
8 hour
16
53
128
10 hour
6
20
60
11 hour
8
27
88
Total
30
100
276

Average of hours of work per day = Total hours of work per day/ No of workers
                                                                  =276/30
                                                                  =9.2 hours
INTERPRETATION: From the table it is clear that the average work time is  9 hours per day.53% of them have a normal working is time of 8 hours per day.









TABLE 3.8
TOTAL BREAK TIME OF WORK PER DAY
Hours of break per day
No: of workers
Total break time
1 hour
5
5.0
1.15 hour
8
9.2
1.30 hour
4
5.2
2.00 hour
13
26.0
Total
30
45.2

Average of total break time = 45.2/30
                                                       =1.5 hours
                                                       =2 hours

INTERPRETATION: From the table it is clear that there is an average break time of 2 hours per day.




                                                                 



TABLE 3.9
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DAILY WAGE
In their state
No: of respondents
Percentage
In Kerala
No: of respondents
Percentage
100-200
9
30
300-400
18
60
200-300
14
47
400-500
2
7
300-400
5
16
500-600
3
10
400-500
2
7
600-700
7
23
Total
30
100
Total
30
100



INTERPRETATION: comparatively migrants get high wage in Kerala more than their state. This is the major reason for migration of these labourers.









  TABLE 3.10
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF MODE OF RECEIVING WAGE OR SALARY  
Opinion
No of respondents
Percentage%
MONTHLY
2
7
WEEKLY
16
53
DAILY
9
30
AFTER CONTRACT
0
0
ON HOLYDAYS/LEAVE
3
10
INDIRECT PAYMENT
0
0
TOTAL
30
100

INTERPRETATION: From the above data we can understand that under direct payment system, 53% of respondents receives their salary / wage weekly, 30% of respondents collect it daily, 7% collects monthly and 10% of respondents collects their wages/ salary on holidays/ leave. None of the respondent collects wages after the contract and there is no indirect payment.

TABLE 3.11
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF ANY ADDITIONAL BENEFITS OF MIGRANT WORKERS
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
20
67
No
10
33
Total
30
100
                    
INTERPRETATION: Most of the migrants are get additional benefits for their work. Bonus, festival allowance etc.. are added to their daily wages at relevant time.




TABLE 3.12
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF TAKEN ANY OVERTIME WORK
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
18
60
No
12
90
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: The study reveals that 60 percentage of migrant labourers have taken over time work. Most of the migrant workers do overtime work.




TABLE 3.13
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF HEAVY WORK IN PRESENTJOB
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
2
7
No
28
93
Total
30
100


INTERPRETATION: Most of the migrants have no heavy work load in their present job.
                         



TABLE 3.14
CLASSIFICATON ON THE BASIS OF ANY JOB SECURITY MEASURES
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
18
60
No
12
40
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: Most of the migrants are getting job security measures like insurance etc in their present job .
                        




TABLE 3.15
DISCUSSION AND PROBLEM SOLVING AT WORK SITE
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
25
83
No
5
17
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: Majority of the migrant labourers (83%) they can freely discuss their problems with their employers who are keen on solving their problems at work site.





TABLE 3.16
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF COMPLAINTS AND SUGGECTIONS
Opinion
No: of respondents
Percentage
Yes
10
33
No
0
0
Sometime
20
67
Total
30
100

INTERPRETATION: Most of the migrant labourers says that the employers  consider their complaints and suggestions.





TABLE 3.17
CLASSIFICATION ON THE BASIS OF LEVEL OF SATISFATION AMONG MIGRANT LABOURERS
SL.NO
FACTORS
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
                     1
JOB
4.5
2
SALARY/WAGE
4.4
3
EMPLOYEE ATTITTUDE
4
4
WORKING CONDITION
3.76
5
COMPLAINTS HANDLING MECHANISM
3.6
6
FOOD
4.1
7
ACCOMODATION
3.07

INTERPREEATION: The migrant labourers are highly satisfied with their job (4.5). salary or wage (4.4), employees attitude(4), working condition (3.76),complaints handling mechanism(3.6) and food (4.1). these factors are satisfied. About accommodation (3.07) the migrant labourers have no opinion.












CHAPTER 4
FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS AND CONCLUSION












FINDINGS
The employees can work effectively and efficiently, when there is employees’ satisfaction. This study is to find out the satisfaction among the immigrant labours in Thrissur district. There is An increasing trend in migration to Kerala. Migrants like Malayalam but they have to  face some communication problem here. The migrant employees are highly satisfied with their present job. They are here for doing local jobs like construction work, road work, gold work, tile making, brick kilns etc. Migrants get adjusted with accommodation difficulties. Most of migrants are taking over time work and are getting benefits with this work. The study also reveals that job satisfaction level of these labourers are very high.















SUGGESTIONS
v Migrant labourers have to be treated like local labourers.
v Provide more accommodation and working condition facilities for migrants.
v Provide more additional benefits like bonus etc and job security measures like life insurance, medical insurance etc for migrants.
v Provide education facilities for their children in Kerala.


















CONCLUSION
The term migrant workers has difficult official meaning and connotations in different parts of the world several countries have millions of illegal immigrants most of them being workers also. There are a number of studies on the diverse aspects of migration of Keralities to other countries particularly to countries in   the Middle East. But the growing in migration to the state has received only very little attention from researchers.Migrants workers satisfaction is a broader term than job satisfaction which is only one component of total entity. It implies that even if a migrant labour is satisfied with job, there are many other reasons in the work premise to be dissatisfied. Access to public services for migrants and their families and extension of social securities schemes to them have to be examined in detail.

























BIBLIOGRAPHY












BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ø en.wikipedia.org/wiki/migrant iabours in kerala
Ø Csesindia.org/admin/modules/cms/docs/publication/16.pdf







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APPENDIX










STUDY ON WORK SATISFICATION AMONG IMMIGRANT LABOURs IN THRISSUR DISTRICT

Name                                  :
Age                                      :
Sex                                       :
Marital   status                  :
State                                    :
Work   site                          :
Type   of    work                 :
Education                           :

1.     


Do you know Malayalam language?                  Yes                         No
2.     

Reason for leaving your native place?              ………………………………………………………….                                                        ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3.     

Are you settled here with your family?               Yes                         No
3.1 

 How many children do you have?                   
3.2 


Are they working or studying here?                     Working               Studying
4       


Have you suffered any health problems?            Yes                         No
If yes, specify        : ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
Treatment             : ……………………………………………………………………………………………………
5       



Nature of work  :        Permanent               Temporary                 Contract
6        How many years have you been working?





       0-1                          1-2                                 2-3                   3-4                      4 & more
7        Hours of work per day?      ………………………………………………………………………………………
8        Total break time:…………………………      Distribution of break:…………………………………
9        How much is your daily wage in your state? …………………………………………………………..
10    How much is your daily wage in Kerala? ………………………………………………………………….


11    Mode of receiving wage /salary?

       Direct payment     :      Monthly             Weekly              Daily 
                                               After contract         on holidays /Leave

       Indirect payment
12   


Are there any additional benefits?              Yes                  No
If yes, specify   …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
13   


Have you taken any overtime job?           Yes                    No
If yes, payments for overtime work? ………………………………/hr
14   


Whether there is heavy work load in your present job?          Yes                No
If yes, specify ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………
15   


Are you   covered under any job security measures?           Yes                   No
If yes, specify …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
16    Do you all gather to discuss and solve your problems at work site?


            Yes                        No
17    Do the employers consider your complaints and suggestions?


      
        Yes           No                     Sometimes
18    Please express your level of satisfaction regarding the following
Particulars
Highly Satisfied
Satisfied
No Opinion
Dissatisfied
Highly Dissatisfied
Job





Salary / Wage





Employees attitude





Working conditions





Complaints handling mechanism





Food





Accommodations








Thank you…