A STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITY OF WORK LIFE AND IMPROVEMENT OF PERFORMANCE IN THE URMIA FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMPLOYEES

In today's competitive era, improvement of performance could provide a better
situation for the survival and improvement of the organizations. The role of universities as science
sources, is very important, and the quality of work life among other factors can play an important role
in the workplace. Therefore, the present study tries to investigate the relationship between quality of
life work and improvement in the performance of employees of the organization.
Materials & Methods: The statistical population included all employees of Public Health faculty in
Urmia Medical Sciences University in which 50 individuals based on Morgan table participated. For
data collection, two types of questionnaires have been used for quality of working life and improving
performance. Their reliabilities were estimated to be 0.84 and 0.81 respectively by Cronbach's alpha
test.The research is a descriptive, and correlational study. Data analysis is performed by SPSS
software, using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The results show that there is a positive correlation between the quality of work life and
optimized performance such as ‘Fair pay with r=0.117’, ‘Safe working environment with r=0.119’,
Providing promotion opportunities with r= 0.279’ and ‘Social ties with r= 0.223’ are related to the
improvement of performance.
Conclusion: Therefore it is highly recommended to administrators of universities that in order to
achieve optimal performance, they should pay special attention to the quality of employees working
life.