Work Environment and Quality of Life

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Work environment and quality of life. 2. Literature review. 3. Implementation of research on QWL. 4. Quality of working life differentials and organization behaviour. 5. Dynamics of working life and society. 6. Conclusions. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

"The sustained vitality and profitability of any organization is clearly linked to the satisfaction of its workforce. This is intuitively obvious, and the research is compelling. A organization that does not measure and improve employee satisfaction may quickly face increasing turnover, declining productivity from the people that remain, and a limited ability to attract and retain qualified replacements. Employee satisfaction and the quality of work life directly affect a organization\'s ability to properly serve its employees, and if it is not measured, it can not be effectively improved or maintained.

In literature, the researchers to sort out the measure of Quality of Working Life, factor influencing QWL, etc. have done extensive work. However, a very scant attention has been paid by the researchers to analyse QWL differentials between the various working classes. To the best of our knowledge, no work has been undertaken to analyse QWL differential and its determinants among school teachers categorised on the basis of urban and rural locations. The present book is an endeavour in this direction and aims to analyse the factors influencing QWL differentials among urban and rural school teachers and, thus, targets to enrich the existing literature relating to QWL." (jacket)