Background: Nowadays, quality of working life
as a universal concept of human resource management and organizational development
have been regarded and improving it, is key to successfully managing any
organization. This study was conducted to survey Relationship between Quality of working life
and Work-family conflict among Nurses of Hospitals in Tehran.
Materials
and Methods: This
study is descriptive –analytic that performed cross sectional. The study
population was the nurses of the hospitals of the Tehran University of
Medical sciences (N=215).The data was
gathered using two questionnaires , Quality
of working life components of Casio and questionnaire of work-family
conflict prepared based on Carlson. Cronbach's alpha was used to assess the
reliability of the questionnaire. Spearman correlation test was used for
statistical analysis.
Results:
There was no significant
relationship between Education and work facilities (Quality of working
life components) with the work-family
conflict (p >0.05).but relationship
between the democracy, participation in decision making, job design,
workplace in organization with
the work-family conflict was significant (p <0.05).finally, between Quality of working
life and work-family conflict a significant
relationship was observed (p <0.001).
Conclusion:
Because the
significant relationship was observed between the Quality of working life and
work-family conflict among the nurses, It can be concluded that Work-family
conflict be reduced with improve of Quality of working life.
