Quality of Work Life Functions for Productivity: Case study of work alienation and emotional exhaustion

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.

Keywords

• quality of work life
• work alienation
• emotional exhaustion