A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PAY SCALE PATTERNS OF THE EMPLOYEES OF KSRTC AND OTHER PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES

Dr. Indu Vijayan
Pay Scal\e Pattern KSRTC Pay Revision Employee satisfaction Human Resource Management

Abstract

Public transport presents an interesting situation where the primary objective is that of public service on a self-sustaining basis. With the view to provide affordable, safe and reliable bus service to people both in rural and urban areas, the Road Transport Act was promulgated in 1950. This enabled the State and Central Government to form Road Transport Corporation. Since the formation of Kerala State there were nine Pay Revision Committees/Commissions and during the period of study three pay revisions were applied. A comparison with the life span of pay scale in the Government employees with that of KSRTC employees was made and it was found that the life span of Pay Scale for the maintenance staffs in KSRTC is lower and it is higher for the administrative staffs when compared to the Government employees working in the same category.In the comparison of the life span of pay scale of KSRTC with that of Government employees using t-test, it was inferred that the administrative staffs have a greater life span pay scale and hence they are less motivated.A comparison with the lag of time between initial and final years of the pay scale in Government and in KSRTC was made and on the t test analysis the result indicates that there exists a definite reduction formula in KSRTC for salary calculation in comparison with the Government pay scales.Thus it was felt may lead to the demotivation of the employees and consequently the opting for jobs in other Public Sector Enterprises than in KSRTC.

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