Prediction of components of Quality of Work Life by Components of Perceived Organizational Virtuousness among Employees of a Public Sector Organization

Subject Areas : Educational

Abdorasool Abdi ¹ , Mohsen Golparvar ²

1 - کارشناس ارشد روانشناسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، اصفهان، ایران
2 - دانشیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اصفهان (خوراسگان)

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2017-05-22

Keywords: perceived organizational virtuousness, public sector employees, components of quality of work life,

Abstract :

This research was done with the aim of investigating the role of perceptions of organizational virtuousness for quality of work life among employees of a public sector organization. The research method was correlation and statistical population was the employees of a public sector organization in Isfahan city, and from them two hundred and fifty six persons were selected using simple random sampling. Research instruments consisted of Perceived Organizational Virtuousness Questionnaire (Rego et al, 2010) and Quality of Work Life questionnaire (Nguyen et al, 2012). Data were analyzes using Pearson’s correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis and canonical correlation analysis. The results of multiple regression analysis showed that, only optimism (β=0.21), compassion (β=0.16), integrity (β=0.26) and forgiveness (β=0.2) has predictive power for prediction of survival needs, only optimism (β=0.18), trust (β=0.23), compassion (β=0.18) and integrity (β=0.22) have predictive power for prediction of belonging needs, and optimism (β=0.17), trust (β=0.26), integrity (β=0.26) and forgiveness (β=0.19) have predictive power for prediction of knowledge needs. The results of this study showed that promote organizational virtuousness, can raise the employees’ quality of work life.

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