The Impact of ‘Quality of Working Life’ Initiatives on Trade Unions

1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Roy Moore
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Workers’ quality of working life and privatisation: Insights from a developing country

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-238
Author(s):  
Mehadi Mamun
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Impact

Privatisation affects tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh, though most research has focused on the relationships between privatisation and profitability of this developing country’s privatisation programmes. This study, therefore, is an attempt to shed light on workers who are very vulnerable and examines the impact of privatisation on workers’ quality of working life. Employing document analysis and semi-structured face-to-face interviews with privatised and state-owned organisations’ workers in Bangladesh, this study finds that workers’ compensation, job security, access to trade unions, and leave entitlements in most privatised case study organisations are less than their counterparts in comparable state-owned organisations. These findings aim at contributing to the body of research by empirically investigating the impact of privatisation on workers who are left behind and possess important implications for the privatisation programmes in Bangladesh as it informs that there is a need to reassess the privatisation programmes through greater awareness of the negative effects of privatisation on workers and renew efforts to develop an approach that is sensitive to the Bangladeshi context.

Labour disputes among the nursing staff

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
L. Karasyova
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Work Teams ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Labour Disputes ◽  
The Impact

The article presents results of research work that allow to assess the likelihood of conflict in the work teams of inpatient departments, to assess the conflict resistance of nursing staff in the process of professional activity and to analyze the impact of elements of the quality of working life on the formation of conflict-generating issues.

Impact of the Nature of Employment on the Quality of Working Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 170-188
Author(s):  
Vyacheslav Yu. Babyshev ◽  
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Galina A. Barysheva ◽  
Thi Bich Ngoc Tran ◽  
Dao Thanh Binh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Working Life ◽  
General Level ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Technological and demographic changes have actualized the question of the influence of the nature of employment and the parameters of the workplace on the quality of a person’s working life. A scientific review and analysis of the impact of current trends in employment modes on the quality of human life is presented. Based on the literature review, it has been concluded that if there is unanimity among scientists about the positive impact of the regime of protected and standard employment on the quality of life, there is active debate about the impact of the regime of vulnerable and precarious employment. Also, based on the analysis of the literature, it has been determined that people’s subjective satisfaction does not always coincide with a positive impact on the objective quality of life. The study is based on comparative and correlation analysis as a method for processing statistical data from the OECD, ILO and WB. The employment regimes were classified according to four enlarged groups: economic sectors, professions, status, and employment regime. The assessments of the quality of life were classified according to three indicators: the human development index, the quality of life index and the international happiness index. The most important factors in the development of the labor market, influencing the quality of working life, have been identified: parameters of the quality of the workplace (the level of wages, employment stability, qualifications of workers, the level of social and legal guarantees) and the general level of employment. The most reasoned point of view was revealed: the regime of standard protected employment (permanent full-time work under a formal contract) has a positive effect, and the regime of precarious work (various options for informal, temporary or part-time employment) has a negative impact on the quality of life. The protected employment regime (hired labor and selfemployment as an entrepreneur) has a positive effect, while the vulnerable employment regime (individual self-employment and intra-family employment) has a negative impact on the quality of life. The transition to a “new” economy and highly skilled jobs has a significant impact on the quality of working life. The opinion of experts about non-standard forms of employment as a single category is refuted. The positive influence of the mode of part-time employment on the quality of life is revealed, the contradictory influence of the mode of temporary employment on the quality of life is shown. Achievement of material well-being and sociopolitical stability to a large extent contradicts the subjective happiness of people and the protection of the environment.

EXPLANATION THE IMPACT OF THE QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN THE WORKPLACE

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Fakhriyeh Hamidianpour ◽  
Majid Esmaeilpour ◽  
Leila Amiri
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Impact

The impact of personal characteristics, quality of working life and psychological well-being on job burnout among Iranian external auditors

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 189-205
Author(s):  
Mahdi Salehi ◽  
Fereshteh Seyyed ◽  
Shayan Farhangdoust
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Impact

PurposeGiven the negative consequences of job burnout for both individual auditors and audit firms, the present study aims to examine the effect of auditors' personal characteristics, working life quality and psychological well-being on auditors' job burnout.Design/methodology/approachWe chose 240 auditors (junior, senior, manager and partner) who work at 53 audit and public accounting firms in Mashhad during 2015–2016 as our sample. The respondents were randomly selected and the data were gathered through the distribution of questionnaires of Walton’s (1973) quality of working, Ryff’s (1995) psychological well-being and Maslach and Jackson’s (1984) job burnout. We also employ structural equation modeling (SEM) along with statistical path analysis to test our hypotheses by using R statistical software.FindingsConsistent with our expectations and prior literature, our findings suggest that auditors' job burnout is significantly and positively influenced by auditors' personal traits, quality of working life and psychological well-being.Originality/valueThe present study is quite remarkable and unique in that it focuses on a specific audit market where there are significant differences in socio-economic, political and cultural factors with those of Western or European developed markets. The results provided in this paper could be fruitful for auditors, regulators and policymakers.

scholarly journals Management of an Organization’s Development PotentialBased on a Balanced Scorecard

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 110-119
Author(s):  
L. F. Shilova ◽  
A. N. Bystrova ◽  
D. L. Skipin ◽  
A. S. Gurina ◽  
K. A. Kostina
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Numerical Data ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Life Assessment ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
The Balanced Scorecard ◽  
The Impact

The article considers the issues of managing an Organization’s Development Potential based using a Balanced Scorecard. When innovative technological processes are implemented one of the most effective mechanisms of strategic management is a balanced scorecard. The use of this tool leads to successful development of the organization and increases its value. The core feature of the balanced scorecard is development potential. The authors define what “development potential” is and propose the methods for its analysis. To assess the development potential the following indicators can be used: work satisfaction, staff stability, labor capacity, etc. The authors propose a methodology for analysis of development potential by polling to find differences in the quality of WORKING LIFE in different categories of employees. The polling was carried out among the employees of Oil and Gas Company. The sample covered 342 people: 31% of which belong to whitecollars (managerial staff) and 69% were blue-collars. The questions in the questionnaire were divided into 9 sections, which evaluate various aspects of quality of WORKING LIFE: assessment of working results, workers’ participation in management, assessment of professional knowledge and skills, skill level, the impact of work on personal lives of employees and others. For each question average weighted arithmetical mean is calculated in order to obtain numerical data. To find deviations the authors correlate the obtained numerical values with the normal level of average weighted arithmetic. The result of this research is the proposal about transition to the balanced scorecard, which, in its conceptual framework, in the authors’ view, focuses on the development potential of the whole team. Management of development potential is based on the interaction between the organization and the employee, the use of the balanced scorecard can make this interaction more effective.

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