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Tirumadahar (talk) 17:03, 12 April 2014 (UTC)Quality of Study Life (QSL)

One of the common concepts often associated with work place is the Quality of Work Life (QWL). This is generally associated with “series of objective organisational conditions and practices that enables employees of an organisation to perceive that they are virtually safe, satisfied and have better chances of growth and development as human beings.” (Ahmad, 2013, p73)

This concept highlights that lives (i.e. QWL) of employees gets affected due to the dynamic changes in the work environment. The relationship between the QWL and productivity has become apparent now for which company provide conditions for promoting the QWL for personnel to be productive.

There are many studies done on employee development, motivation, health, safety, grievance and many more Human resource issues but in this whole concern everyone is forgetting


 * From where employee was born
 * How this human was turned into human resources?
 * From where he got skills to do the work?
 * From where he got education to do the work?

Somehow, there are not many studies that discuss the origin of these human resources/employees, i.e. the study/education of the person. Though there are many titles for students’ health safety and management but it always remained vague and different in different Institutions. This perspective introduces a new term and concept, which needs to be researched further and elaborated. This concept is introduced as being inspired from the QWL concept. It should have done many years ago but still it is not too late to put a frame to all these students rights ‘’QUALITY OF STUDY LIFE’’ (QSL).

QSL includes all the rights for students and binds the institution to provide an excellent range of opportunities to students to develop their skills for academic study, languages and their future careers, as well as help improve their proficiency in various areas such as research, learning technology and information-search and lot more they deserve.

As the term is here so it is obvious that it should have some organs, which have been proposed in the light of challenges faced by students:

The total life space – A students' study should have a balanced role in his life. This role encompasses schedules, career demands, and social life requirements that take a limited portion of the students' leisure and family and friends’ time, as well as advancement, personality development and career choices general wellbeing, Safe and healthy environment is essential for enhancing students’ quality of life.

Actualization and turnover – In this new era varying degrees studies has been multi-streamed, fractionated, multi-skilled, and broadly far sighted. Planning the study is often related from implementing it. Things which are pivotal to student success and of importance are generally self-aim, self-actualization and loans of the student which need to be thought before stepping in to any stream. As if the wrong decision is made then it can turn into turnover in any stage of course.

Inter-group Relationships – Another factor that contributes to improvement in QSL is to maintain the group relationships. Groups are the basic fundamental units of a study culture.

Likewise in companies the interactions that take place among the members of a group are referred to as group dynamics which effect the growth of the organisation. In same way to improve QSL, the institute should concentrate on the dynamics of intra- and inter-group relationships of a student; inter-group conflicts and cliques should be avoided to minimize the un-favourable stress to the individual. Stress can be mental, physical, psychological or emotional stress, and studies have revealed that mental and emotional stress is more lethal than physical stress for students.

Supportive Institution Culture – Every institution has its own culture and values which clearly shows how it values human assets (students, staff and other insiders). The institution culture is a pattern of shared values and beliefs that provides students and other institution insiders meaning and rules of behaviour. A strong institution culture for students not only gives direction to the behaviour of the students but also makes them feel better about what they do and encourages them to work harder. An institution culture that supports change and improvement, learning and high recent technology is an important predicator of ensuring high QSL to its students

E-supports – In the study life there are loads of things to be organised and technology should be appreciated to make all this management easier. If any institute is using all these technologies to support teaching they are improving QSL. E-support includes e-interview, e-lecture, e-training, e-reports, blackboard updates further e- grievance reporting and e-grievance re-dressal and many more. Growth and security – Attention needs to be given to:


 * the extent to which the students' assignments contribute to maintaining and expanding his capabilities, rather than leading to his obsolescence;
 * the degree to which expanded or newly acquired knowledge and skills can be utilized in future;
 * and the availability of opportunities to advance in career terms which peers, family, friends, or associates recognize.

To improve QSL, it is necessary for the institute to consider the attitude and approach of the employees before implementing any QSL programme. The effectiveness and impact of each and every QSL programme should be explained to employees and students to get best out of it. Management should also take initiatives towards intellectual activities, such as implementing training, assessment programmes and developing career plan for students. As these days studies are very much from loan support so future should be guided and supported to get appropriate placement in order to pay back loan as soon as possible. In coordination with other development activities carried out with human resource development departments. These career planning opportunities will provide the students to choose better and new skills to cope with any changes in their career in future.

Institutes where the quality of teaching and research is paramount will be successful in enhancement of Quality of Study Life (QSL).


 * Ahmad, S. (2013), Paradigms of Quality of Work Life, Journal of Human Values, Vol. 19, Issue 1, p73-82, Sage Publications.