An empirical investigation on factors influencing on quality of work life

During the past few years, quality of work life has received significant attention among both academic and business environments due to its vital role on the success of organizations. Rise in the quality of work life would help employees’ well-being thereby the well-being of the whole organization. This is an attempt to capitalize the human assets of the organization. These days, for an organization to be successful and achieve its organizational objectives it is imperative that its employees are satisfied with their work, since work occupies an important place in many people’s lives, such conditions are likely to affect not only their physical but also a high level of social, psychological and spiritual well-being. The proposed study designed a questionnaire and distributed among 192 experts in the largest automotive producer in Iran called Iran Khodro and managed to collect 175 filled ones. The questionnaire consists of 24 questions and Cronbach alpha was calculated as 0.81, which is well above the minimum acceptable limit and validates the results. The results of our survey indicate that four major factors including job characteristics, working conditions, organizational characteristics and human relations influence quality of work conditions.