Relationship between Quality of Work Life and Job Involvement among Staff Nurses

Abstract

Quality of work life affects job involvement, sense of competence, job satisfaction, and job performance. A favorable quality of work life results in positive consequences of these factors. Job involvement indicates the extent of people’s identification with, or ego involvement, in the job. Job involved people spend more time on job and turn out better performance. Challenging jobs influence employees to get involved with their jobs. Similarly, people with high need for achievement and high work ethic feel involved in jobs. These are the elements of quality of work life (Permarupan et al., 2020). This study aimed at identifying the relationship between quality of work life and job involvement among staff nurses. Descriptive correlational design was used in carrying out this study. The study was conducted at Bahteem Central Hospital which affiliated to ministry of health. Study subjects were 90 staff nurses. Data was collected by two tools namely: Quality of nursing work life questionnaire and Job involvement scale. Quality of nursing work life questionnaire which consists of Demographic characteristics of study subjects including age, gender, years of experience, work unit and qualifications and quality of nursing work life dimensions;