Quality of Work Life of Central Personnel at Department of Medical Sciences

Abstract

The purpose of this study is (1) to examine the level of work-life quality for the central personnel of the Department of Medical Sciences, (2) to compare the quality of life at work for the central personnel of the Department of Medical Sciences, categorized by personal factors, and (3) to study the relationship between organizational atmospheric factors and the quality of life at work for the central personnel of the Department of Medical Sciences. In this quantitative research, the sample consists of 309 individuals from the Department of Medical Sciences. The sampling method employed is stratified random sampling with proportional allocation. The tools used for data collection include questionnaires. The statistics used for data analysis include frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson product-moment correlation. The study found that the central personnel of the Department of Medical Sciences have a high quality of work life. The central personnel with different personal factors, such as gender, marital status, position, and duration of work, show no differences in their quality of work life. However, differences in personal factors such as age, education level, and monthly income, as well as differences among agencies, resulted in variations in the quality of work life. The organizational atmosphere factors had a positive relationship with the quality of work life of the central staff of the Department of Medical Sciences at a high level, with a correlation coefficient (r) of .851.