This document discusses quality of nursing work life, including its definition, objectives, importance, benefits, aspects, and principles. Quality of work life aims to improve productivity, morale, and employee satisfaction by increasing participation, enriching jobs, providing career growth and recognition, ensuring security, and fostering open communication. Challenges to quality work life include poor rewards, intimidating management, negative environments, lack of security, and negative attitudes. The key aspects of quality work life are adequate compensation, safe conditions, developing skills, career opportunities, social integration, constitutional protections, and balancing work and personal life.

1. Quality of Nursing Work Life
By /MahmoudShaqria
‫شقريه‬ ‫محمد‬ ‫محمود‬

2. Outline:
1-Definition of Quality of nursing Work Life .
2-Objectives of Quality of nursing Work Life.
3-Importance of Quality of nursing Work Life.
4-The benefits to both management and workers include.
5-Ways to achieve a quality of nursing work life.
6-Problems in enhancing the quality of nursing
7-The main aspects of QWL .
8-Principles of Quality of Work life.

3. Definition of Quality of nursing
Work Life :
QWL is the degree to which work in an
organization contributes to material and
psychological wellbeing of its.
Quality of Work Life is the degree to which
individuals are able to satisfy their
important personal needs while employed
by the firm.

4. Objectives of Quality of nursing
Work Life:
To increase in individual productivity,
accountability and commitment.
For better teamwork and communication.
For improving the morale of employees.
To reduce organizational stress.
To improve relationships both on and off the job.
To improve the safety working conditions.
To provide adequate Human Resource
Development Programs.
To improve employee satisfaction.
To strengthen workplace learning.
To better manage on-going change and
transition.
To participate in management at all levels in
shaping the organization.

5. Importance of Quality of
nursing Work Life:
 Quality of work life is important because of the following
reasons:
 It enhances the stakeholder relations and credibility
 Increase productivity
 Decreases absenteeism
 Improve the quality of working lives
 Matches people who would not otherwise work without
jobs
 Benefitting families and communities
 Job involvement
 Job satisfaction

6. The main aspects of QWL are as
:follows
1. Adequate and Fair Compensation.
2. Safe and Healthy Working Conditions.
3. Opportunity to Use and Develop Human
Capacities.
4. Opportunity for Career Growth.
5. Social Integration in Work Force.
6. Constitutionalisation in the Work
Organization.
7. Work and Personal Life.

7. 1-Adequate and Fair Compensation.
There should be a just and equitable balance
between effort and reward.
Several factor must be considered for determining
such compensation , e.g., ability of the organization
to pay, demand and supply of labor, cost of living,
productivity of labor, job valuation, etc.
2. Safe and Healthy Working Conditions.
Quality of work cannot be high unless the work
environment is free from all hazards detrimental to
the health and safety of employees.
Reasonable hours of work, cleanliness, pollution
free atmosphere, risk free work, etc. are the main
elements of a good physical environment for work.

8. 3. Opportunity to Use and Develop Human
Capacities.
The job should contain sufficient variety of
tasks to provide challenge and to ensure the
utilization of
talents. Today work has become repetitive and
mechanical so that the worker has little control
on it. Quality of work life can be improved if the
job allows sufficient autonomy and control,
provides timely feedback on performance and
uses a wide range of skills.
4. Opportunity for Career Growth.
The work should provide career opportunities
for

9. 5. Social Integration in Work Force.
The worker should be made to feel a sense of
identity with the organization and develop a
feeling of self-esteem. Openness, trust sense
of community feeling, scope for upward
mobility, equitable treatment is essential for
this purpose.
6. Constitutionalization in the Work
Organization.
QWL provides constitutional protection to the
employees. Management action can be
challenged. Constitutional protection is
provided to employees on such matters as
free-speech, equity and due process.

10. 7. Work and Personal Life.
There should be proper balance between
work life and personal life of employees. The
demands of work such as late hours,
frequent travel,
quick transfers are both psychologically and
socially very costly and detrimental to quality
of work life.
8. Social Relevance of Works.
Work should not only be a source of material
and psychological satisfaction but a means
of social welfare. An organization that has
greater concern for social causes like
pollution, consumer protection, national
integration, employment, etc. can improve
the quality of work life.

11. Principles of Quality of Work
:Life
1. The Principle of Security
Quality of work cannot be improved until
employees are relieved of the anxiety, fear and loss
of future employment. The working conditions must
be safe and fear of economic want should be
eliminated.
2. The Principle of Equity
There should be a direct and positive relation
between effort and reward. All types of
discrimination between people doing similar work
and with same level of
performance must be eliminated. Equity also
requires sharing the profits of the organization.

12. 3. The Principle of individualism
Employees differ in terms of their attitudes,
skills, potentials etc. Therefore, every
individual should be provided the opportunities
for development of his personality and
potential. Humanization of work requires that
employees are able to decide
their own pace of activities and design of work
operations.
4. The Principle of Democracy
This means greater authority and
responsibility to employees. Meaningful
participation in decision making process
improves the quality of work life.

13. The benefits to both management
and workers include:
1. Improved organization performance
through the development of people.
2. Increased co-operation and team work
within and across all the levels of the
organization including movement towards
management or trade union partnership.
3. Increased environment in doing a good
job .
4. Improved quality performance.
5. Increased commitment to the values and

14. Benefits of Quality of Work Life:
1. Increased Job Involvement.
Job involvement indicates the extent of
people’s
identification with the job. Job involved
people spend more time on job and turn out
better performance.
2. Higher Job Satisfaction.
The workers feel higher job satisfaction
which improves their performance and
results in decreased labor turnover,

15. 3. Sense of Competence.
QWL affects sense of competence i.e., the
feeling of confidence that one has in one’s
own competence. By engaging in a work that
calls for a variety of skills, abilities, and
talents, individuals gain mastery over their
work environment. This job involvement
further adds to sense of competence.
4. Better Performance and Productivity.
As shown in Fig., job involvement, job
satisfaction and sense of competence affect
job performance and productivity of
employees.
Since there is congruence between the
employee and the job, there is higher level of
job performance.

16. Ways to achieve a quality of nursing work life:
1-Increased employee participation
2-Job enrichment
3-Career growth plans
4-Open communication
5-Providing job security
6-Flexible work timings
7-Rewards and recognition

17. 1-Increased employee
participation: Involving staff in
discussions, ways & feedback are a few
things that help increase the workers QWL
& contribution towards a specific role.
2-Job enrichment: Companies that are
ready to enrich the task with new tasks,
higher learning, additional opportunities
etc are additional seemingly to stay staff
happy at work.

18. 3-Rewards and recognition: If a worker is
awarded for an honest performance, it
helps them to perform even higher.
4-Flexible work timings: Flexibility
throughout operating hours is a few things
that are appreciated by workers. This
provides workers an opportunity to try and
do their work and additionally work on sure
vital personal commitments. This
considerably contributes to raising the
standard of labor life for a worker.

19. 5-Open communication: Transparency
between management and workers
provides them confidence as they’re
updated with the business and feel
comfortable being approachable.
6-Career growth plans: Discussing the
long run of the worker within the company,
fascinating aspects of the duty, career
development etc is all appreciated by
staff.

20. Problems in enhancing the
quality of nursing work life:
The problems arise in enhancing the
quality of work life because of following
reasons:
1-Poor reward and recognition
2-Managing by intimidation
3-Negative working environment
4-No job security
5-Negative attitude

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