Activity:

Visit a public works site and prepare a report on the work situation and division of labour there.

The visit of the public work site was to the Instrumentation limited. This site is maintained by the central government and it includes the heavy industries.

Work situation

• There is effective management in the company. Workers are being monitored and managers are well behaving to the workers.

• Since the company is manufacturing unit, most of the workers are male. But there are women involvement in management and financial field.

• There is much safety precaution for the worker in all the corners of the building. There is the availability of:

o First aid

o Fire extinguisher

o Emergency exit

o Well maintained rust rooms

• The timings for the workers are also much efficient. There is no overtime working unless there is a target that is to be finished in time.

• Working pressure is very much created by fixing the target to finish the production within the stipulated time. In all departments, the date and quantity of products to be produced will be displayed.

• There is flexibility in taking leave for the workers in the emergency situation.

Division of labour

• Women constitute a very much small portion of the total labour employed. The share of the women is very less because these type of unit is manufacturing unit and it needs highly skilled labourers in the mechanical field. Women face multiple barriers relating to access to employment, choice of work, working conditions, employment security, wage parity, discrimination, and balancing the competing burdens of work and family responsibilities

• Moreover, the division of labour in different departments is efficiently done. The allocation of labour to the different departments is done according to their skills and to increase the productivity of the company.