Commitment to work of industrial workers: a sociological study of a public sector undertaking

THE PRESENT dissertation is an outcome of the Ph.D. research in the Department of Sociology. Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. The study attempts at a scientific exploration of commitment of industrial workers to their work and work organization in an industrial organization. It seeks empirical evidence as to how far they have accepted and adjusted to the requirements of industrial work in the sense of consistency of behaviour. The basic intent of the study has been to examine the orientations of industrial workers towards the industrial work, the industry as a place of work, the job, the management and the participative pre disposition among workers. Using the Diesel Locomotive Works, a public sector undertaking, as a test case, the study has been conducted on a wide cross-section of the skilled workers employed therein.

Within the limitations of an individual research, the contribution of the present work lies in the empirical findings supportive of the main contention that security of job, for a majority of industrial workers, is the predominant factor associated with many other measures of social security and participation. These factors of a present-day industrial set-up evoke commitment of a worker to his job in terms of consistency of behaviour in a job situation.