Surveying the Mutual Relationship between Productivity and the Quality of Work Life in Human Resources (Case study: Sewage System of Maragheh)

Abstract

In most of the international conferences about productivity, it has been stated that the level of productivity, particularly that of human resources, is low in various economic parts of the developing countries. The issue of increasing population is also another factor. Almost all of the connoisseurs and top managers of the world’s industries, in justifying the importance of the role of the people compared with capital and technology, claim that there are three important factors in increasing productivity, and human being is the most important factor, so in top-industrialized communities, the purpose and the kind of culture are based upon QWL and human relationships, respectively. They believe that capital and technology can be provided as a loan and by purchase, but we can neither borrow human beings nor buy them. Human beings should be trained as the main capitals of the developing countries, and they should be motivated. Therefore, in this paper, the authors have tried to survey the mutual relationship between productivity and the quality of work life in human resources. They have concluded that by increasing the quality of work life, the productivity also increases.

Keywords

• productivity
• quality of work life
• human resources
• job satisfaction
• performance appraisal