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Effect of Quality of Work Life on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Performance:A Structural Equation Analysis


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All the organizations are in a position to retain their employees happy and satisfied for the continuous work flow towards success. By ensuring the quality of work life at the work place, the employers can retain their talents and tends towards the job satisfaction and organizational performance. These two positive outcomes along with quality of work life needed to be treated positively to keep the employees motivated to provide their contributions to the organizational effectiveness. With this background the purpose of this study is to find out the degree of relationship among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance among the bank employees. In total 357 employees were selected from both public and private sector banks. Explorative Factor Analysis was adopted for the validation and Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the extent of relationship among the variables. The results of the study shows that there is positive significant relationships among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance.

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Quality of Work Life, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Performance, Structural Equation Modeling.
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M. Muthukumaran
Center for Applied Research, Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University, Gandhigram, Chinnalapatti, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


All the organizations are in a position to retain their employees happy and satisfied for the continuous work flow towards success. By ensuring the quality of work life at the work place, the employers can retain their talents and tends towards the job satisfaction and organizational performance. These two positive outcomes along with quality of work life needed to be treated positively to keep the employees motivated to provide their contributions to the organizational effectiveness. With this background the purpose of this study is to find out the degree of relationship among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance among the bank employees. In total 357 employees were selected from both public and private sector banks. Explorative Factor Analysis was adopted for the validation and Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the extent of relationship among the variables. The results of the study shows that there is positive significant relationships among quality of work life, job satisfaction and organizational performance.

Keywords


Quality of Work Life, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Performance, Structural Equation Modeling.

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