A study on quality of work life among nurses in hospitals with reference to dindigul district

Abstract

Quality of Work life (QWL) is defined as how employees feel about their work environment and maintaining relationships with each other. QWL tries to create a healthy work environment for human being to achieve organizational objectives. Quality of work life helps to improve job performance, productivity, reduce labour turnover and better labour relations of any industrial organization. A good QWL reflects in better societal changes and guaranteed a higher productivity and job satisfaction. The modern hospitals are giving more importance to bench marking, newlinework pressures and workload. Due to the arrival of new diseases, the role of nurse s work load and wok pressure increases. Majority of the hospitals are operating with less number of nurses. But the nurses are not sharing their problems with their co-nurses or spouse. The most affected nurses are woman nurses because of their dual role. Child care, elder-care and family care responsibilities also rest on the shoulders of the women nurses. All these affect the potential source of life satisfaction. The ultimate aim of hard work is defeated by work-pressure. It not only affects the family life but also the worklife. In the present study the QWL of nurses have been measured with the help of 10 important factors namely wages and salary, training and development, career development, recognition, security, safety measures, work schedule, interpersonal relationship, job content and working environment. Research design is the blue print of the various methods for conducting the research projects. It includes the procedures for obtaining the information needed the way in which they are processed and the method of presentation of the result to solve the research problems. newline newline