A study of quality of work life and organizational commitment

Pages: 334-341
Indu Bala (Department of Management, I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, Punjab)
Ramandeep Saini (Business Management, Chandigarh Group of Colleges Landran, Mohali, Punjab)
B. B. Goyal (University Business School, Panjab University, Chandigarh)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of quality of work life (QWL) of professional and non-professional faculty members in educational institutions of higher learning and to investigate the relationship between the QWL and Organizational Commitment (OC) between professional and nonprofessional faculty members. The first objective of this study is to identify the significant dimensions of QWL of academic and the second objective is to compare the relationship between quality of work life and organizational commitment between the faculty members teaching professional and non -professional courses at private institutions. This study adopted descriptive research and 300 respondents were taken, out of which 150 from public institutions and 150 from private institutions. The results indicate that faculty members teaching professional courses are slightly more satisfied than the faculty teaching nonprofessional courses on the organizational factors, environmental factors and on normative commitment. On the other hand faculty members teaching nonprofessional courses are more satisfied than the faculty members teaching professional courses on the personal factors and continuance commitment. However on the affective commitment both types of faculty members are dissatisfied with the same mean score. Discussions and recommendation are provided in this study.