A STUDY ON ASSOCIATION BETWEEN QUALITY OF WORK LIFE FACTORS AND JOB PRODUCTIVITY AMONG IT PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

In the modern time, it has become strenuous for organisation for providing their employees a contented Quality of Work Life so that they able to balance their personal and professional life.  The purpose of the study is to investigate the association between the quality of work life and job productivity among professionals working in IT companies. It highlights the significance of the behavioural and subjective aspects of work-life quality and how they affect the development of each collaborator's personal motivation to increase productivity within the company. Job enrichment, job security, flexitime, job autonomy and employee involvement are the QWL variables of the study. The study is descriptive method of research which is based on convenience sampling technique. The target population is IT professional working in IT companies located at Sholinganallur, Chennai. The sample size 135. The analysis is done using SPSS software. Independent sample t-test, ANOVA and multiple linear regression are used to validate the hypotheses. The result of the study shows that there is a positive and strong association between QWL factors and job productivity. It also found that there is a statistical difference between QWL factors and job productivity among the demographic profile of the respondent’s age, gender and work experience. This study provides some modern techniques as suggestions that can be followed by the organisation to offer their employees a high leverage quality of work life.