Quality of Work Life Functions for Productivity: Case study of work alienation and emotional exhaustion
Subject Areas : Business ManagementAli Merdad 1 , Masoume Zaribafan 2 , Iran Mehdizadegan 3
1 - Assistant Professor of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Isfahan University (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Iran
2 - Graduated from the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Isfahan University (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Iran.
3 - Faculty Member, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Department, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Iran
Keywords: Emotional Exhaustion, work alienation, Quality of Work Life,
Abstract :
The main purpose of this research was to study the quality of work life functions for productivity through effects on work alienation and emotional exhaustion. The research method was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population consisted of all the employees of Sarayesh Company, from among whom 200 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling method. In this research a set of questionnaires consisting of quality of work life (Walton, 1973), job alienation (Boeree, 2001) and emotional exhaustion (Maslach & Jackson, 1981) were used. The data were analyzed by using Pearson correlation coefficient and Stepwise regression analysis and the results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between job alienation dimension and emotional exhaustion (p ≤ 0.01).Moreover, there are significant negative relationships between quality of work life dimension and job alienation dimension and between quality of work life dimension and emotional exhaustion (p ≤ 0.01). Furthermore, the results of Stpwise regression analysis showed that the dimension of quality of work life could predict %17 of job alienation and %30 of emotional exhaustion. Therefore, it is possible to reduce job alienation and emotional exhaustion by increasing the quality of work life.
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