PROBLEMS OF HUMAN RELATIONS IN INDUSTRY IN PAKISTAN: A PRELIMINARY REPORT.

This article reports problems of human relations in industry in Pakistan. The pace of industrialization in Pakistan is faster than was generally believed to be possible at the time of partition. Within a decade cotton, paper, and jute mills are going into production in the country. As a result, therefore, new problems of social and cultural adjustment have arisen. The old agricultural economy is crumbling and rapidly becoming industrial. Problems of human relations feature wherever human beings come into contact with each other. These problems have always to be discovered and analyzed. Maladaptations, frustrations, and anxieties are rarely expressed aggressively through riots and industrial strife. In industrial populations these are generally evidenced through accidents, neuroses, absenteeism, complaints to management, and many other such devices. The study of human relations in industry mostly bears upon the motivations of the workers and the related problems of morale arising there from. These in general pertain to the attitude of the workers to the job and the employers; attitude of the employers to the workers' needs; the basic satisfactions provided by the industrial situation in general and above all the co-ordination of effort on the part of all employed in the organization.