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Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution

The aim of this study is to find out about the employee’s perception of their work-life quality in the university. Previous studies indicated that employees’ perception on work life quality significantly influenced their job satisfaction. 251 employees in the university participated in this stud...

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Main Authors: Saad, Hanita Sarah, Abu Samah, Ainon Jauhariah, Juhdi, Nurita
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Language:English
Published: World Business Institutes 2008
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HF5549 Personnel management
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spelling my.iium.irep.244052013-07-08T02:21:52Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/24405/ Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution Saad, Hanita Sarah Abu Samah, Ainon Jauhariah Juhdi, Nurita HF5549 Personnel management The aim of this study is to find out about the employee’s perception of their work-life quality in the university. Previous studies indicated that employees’ perception on work life quality significantly influenced their job satisfaction. 251 employees in the university participated in this study. Ten variables to measure Quality Work Life (QWL) are examined namely support from organization, work-family conflict, relationship with peers, self competence, impact on job, meaningfulness of job, optimism on organizational change, autonomy, access to resources and time control. All these variables are tested the relationship with job satisfaction. The test indicated that each of the QWL variables on its own is a salient predictor of Job Satisfaction. However, 7 QWL variables are no longer significant predictors for job satisfaction when all the 10 QWL variables are entered into the regression equation. Using multiple linear regressions, only 3 QWL variables (meaningfulness of job, optimism on organizational change and autonomy) are significantly related to Job Satisfaction. However, they only explained 28.8% of the variance in Job Satisfaction, F (10, 240) = 11.134, p<.05. World Business Institutes 2008-06 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/24405/1/paper_published_in_inter_business_review.pdf Saad, Hanita Sarah and Abu Samah, Ainon Jauhariah and Juhdi, Nurita (2008) Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution. International Review of Business Research Papers, 4 (3). pp. 23-34. ISSN 1832-9543
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Saad, Hanita Sarah
Abu Samah, Ainon Jauhariah
Juhdi, Nurita
Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
description The aim of this study is to find out about the employee’s perception of their work-life quality in the university. Previous studies indicated that employees’ perception on work life quality significantly influenced their job satisfaction. 251 employees in the university participated in this study. Ten variables to measure Quality Work Life (QWL) are examined namely support from organization, work-family conflict, relationship with peers, self competence, impact on job, meaningfulness of job, optimism on organizational change, autonomy, access to resources and time control. All these variables are tested the relationship with job satisfaction. The test indicated that each of the QWL variables on its own is a salient predictor of Job Satisfaction. However, 7 QWL variables are no longer significant predictors for job satisfaction when all the 10 QWL variables are entered into the regression equation. Using multiple linear regressions, only 3 QWL variables (meaningfulness of job, optimism on organizational change and autonomy) are significantly related to Job Satisfaction. However, they only explained 28.8% of the variance in Job Satisfaction, F (10, 240) = 11.134, p<.05.
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author Saad, Hanita Sarah
Abu Samah, Ainon Jauhariah
Juhdi, Nurita
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Juhdi, Nurita
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title Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
title_short Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
title_full Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
title_fullStr Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
title_full_unstemmed Employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a Private Higher Learning Institution
title_sort employees’ perception on quality work life and job satisfaction in a private higher learning institution
publisher World Business Institutes
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