Quality of life of managers:A gender based study

Pages: 545-548
Rimpy Monga (Department of Psychology, M.D. University, Rohtak, Haryana)
Sunita Malhotra (Ex. Dean Academic Affairs, M.D.University, Rohtak, Haryana)

The quality of life (QOL) male and female, the connections that they build up, and their work have changed significantly in the previous 50 years. QOL is influenced by different angles, for example, individuals’ physical and emotional well-being, family and social relationship, or networks .Some investigations displayed steady discoveries proposing that the dimension of the QOL is fundamentally influenced by age , instructive dimensions, and occupation and education .Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the principle affecting variables on QOL vary by gender difference. An employee is being largely affected by his or her quality of life. Therefore, intentions of the researchers in the field of executive field is to focus on the quality of life of an employees who are responsible for executive decision making Thus, the identified factor could be affecting the level of employee’s quality of life are their gender. The present investigation was conducted with the main aim to evaluate the gender difference on the QOL and their domains -“physical, psychological, social & environmental”.A sample of 300 employees( 160 males and 140 females ) working in various multinational IT companies located in NCR – Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida were selected for the presents study. WHOQualiy of life (WHOQOL – BREF, World Health Organization (1996)) was administered on the sample. The descriptive statistics was calculated which includes the mean and range for scale. Comparison of male and female managers on QOL and their domains– “physical, psychological, social & environmental” were computed by using t-test. Results reveals that males scored high on physical QoL (t = -3.098; p ≤ .002), psychological QoL (t = -2.471; p ≤ .014), social QoL (t = -4.938; p ≤ .001), environmental QoL (t = -3.412; p ≤ .001).