Meta-analysis of the relevance between quality of work life and Job Satisfaction on Iran‘s organizations

Subject Areas : مدیریت

Seyed Mehdi Veyse ¹ , Jafar Abbaspour ² , Heydar Abbaspour ³

1 - PhD, Department of Human Resource Management, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran
2 - Ph.D., Department of Human Resource Management, Khorramabad University, Iran
3 - M.A., Department of Business Management, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran

Received: 2020-10-18 Accepted : 2020-10-18 Published : 2019-02-20

Keywords: Quality of Work Life, meta-analysis, Job satisfaction, effect size, Iranian organizations,

Abstract :

Quality of work life has an important impact on the job satisfaction. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a meta-analytic examination of the relationships between Quality of work life and job satisfaction. For this purpose, nine of which were acceptable in terms of methodological choice and meta-analysis was performed on them. This paper, using meta-analysis method and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (CMA2), aggregated the findings of articles. Results, based on 1940 participants, indicated that Quality of work life and job satisfaction is above averageThis paper, using meta-analysis method and Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software (CMA2), aggregated the findings of articles. Results, based on 1940 participants, indicated that Quality of work life and job satisfaction is above average (mean effect size 0/57). Among the dimensions of quality of work life, quality of work life was strongly correlated with the social cohesion (0/507), the development of human capabilities (0/495), overall living space (0/484), but the correlation of safe working environment with the job satisfaction (0/337) was less.