Study of HR Practices for Contract Labours in the selected Manufacturing industries of Maharashtra State, India

In many industries, the primary focus of HR practices lies only for on roll employees and permanent workers. Irony of the issue is that, by and large these companies execute their operations which are highly depended on the contractual labour only. However, these contractual workers receive little attention. Organizations have been obliged to adopt new workplace HR practices to improve their level of performance due to the highly volatile environment. HRM practices aid in building an emotional attachment with the organization in form of effective commitment from their employees systematic and efficient HRM practices to adapt to the economy's shifting needs to be competitive globally and to respond to changing economic needs, HRM procedures must be efficient and structured. This study is based on primary as well as secondary data which is obtained through a structured questionnaire. HRM Practices are described as a set of internally consistent rules and processes developed and implemented to ensure that a company's human capital contributes to the company's business objectives. Healthy HR practices makes a difference on many counts. They uplift the internal capacities of an organization to deal with current or future challenges to be faced by an organization. The process of globalization has put heavy pressure on many organizations to operate in competitive environment. The impact of these pressures is all pervasive and long term survival of business is dependent on its ability to improve continuously. Therefore organizations have to gear up with innovative and inclusive HR Practices for all categories of employees to survive and flourish in such complex and highly dynamic business environment. The sample size was of 500 contract labours from 90 selected manufacturing industries of the Aurangabad District (Maharashtra, India)