Definition of Social Welfare: The well-being of the entire society.

Social welfare is not the same as standard of living but is more concerned with the quality of life that includes factors such as the quality of the environment (air, soil, water), level of crime, extent of drug abuse, availability of essential social services, as well as religious and spiritual aspects of life. Traditional: Social Welfare means some nursing depend on methods to teach the person to protect his surroundings effectively Modern: Modern Social Welfare is a planning by which men will mitigate his problems under any social organization. *Social Welfare as a Concept: The concept of social welfare has both subjective and descriptive aspects and it can be defined either in empirical measures. *Original meaning of Social Welfare: Society-Network of relationship. Welfare-A condition of physical health, emotional comfort and economic security and the efforts of a society to help its citizens achieve that condition. *Modern meaning of Social Welfare; Social Welfare is defined as a societys governmental and non-governmental efforts to help its members function more effectively as individuals and as participants in organized social structures. *Objectives of Social Welfare: 1. Welfare for all. 2. Overall welfare for human being. 3. Help to fill-up the fundamental rights. 4. Help to role in society. 5. Help for poor and vulnerable. 6. Development for men and environment. 7. Social problem mitigation. 8. Human resource development. 9. Social change. 10. To develop social relationship. 11. Social control. 12. Lower-class empowerment in the society. 13. Help for socialization. 14. Balance distribution of the resources and facilities. 15. Fixed the role of the people in the society.

The welfare measures undertaken to improve the well-being of the employees can be classified broadly into two categories. These are statutory and non-statutory welfare facilities. When welfare facilities are undertaken as per the requirements of the laws, they are called statutory facilities. On the other hand, welfare facilities undertaken voluntarily by the employers, trade unions or by any other voluntary agencies are

called non-statutory welfare facilities. We shall first discuss the statutory welfare facilities offered by the organizations and then the non-statutory ones. Statutory Welfare Facilities These are facilities offered by the organizations in compliance with the central and state government regulations. The central government has enacted several acts to protect the interests of the employees. We shall now see the relevant provisions of the various acts that deal with employee welfare measures. Merits of Welfare Measures Employee welfare schemes are closely associated with the factory form of organizations. In fact, the pathetic conditions of the employees in the factories during the industrial revolution era influenced a few individual employers to undertake a few basic welfare measures on their own initiatives. These facilities gradually grew in number and today, organizations are providing full-fledged facilities to their workforce after realizing its importance as an efficient tool in human resource management. We shall now see the merits of employee welfare facilities. High Employee Retention Welfare facilities enable an organization to create a positive environment for its employees, which, in turn, creates high job satisfaction among them. In the absence of any serious dissatisfaction, the employees may not feel the need for quitting the organization and remain with it for long time. Thus, employee welfare facilities reduce labour turnover and improve employee retention.