Quality of Work Life and its Relationship to Organizational Commitment in the Algerian Public Establishment: A Field Study

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the degree of implementation of "oum elbouaghi" municipality for quality of work life programs and the level of employee commitment to work, and identifying the nature of the relationship between the indicators of the quality of work life represented in participation in decision-making, leadership style, social relations, wags and rewards, occupational safety and organizational commitment based the values of the correlation coefficient of 0.05. The descriptive approach was adopted and a questionnaire was designed using Likert scale and distributed on 38 individuals.

The results revealed a median response level towards job quality with an overall weighted mean of (2.062) and a relative weight of (68.73), the degree of organizational commitment also reflects an average of (2.25) and a relative weight of (75). The result also indicated that there is no statistically significant correlation at 0.05 between indicators of quality of work life (decision-making, leadership style, social relations, occupational safety) and organizational commitment among employees, while there is a relationship between wages and organizational commitment. The results of the research were interpreted according to Abraham Maslow's ladder needs theory.