THE STUDY OF “INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATION’S WELLBEING INITIATIVES ON STAFF COMMITMENT” SPECIAL REFERENCE TO A SELECTED STATE UNIVERSITY”

Author: Mr A Sujendran 

ABSTRACT

In the twenty first century every organizations are operating in a very competitive environment. So, Higher Education Institution’s environment (University) is very competitive. In this situation, operational level employee’s job involvement is very important factor for Higher Education Institution’s. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze the levels of quality of work life, employee well-being and job involvement at a selected University.

This study attempts to find out the relationships among quality of work life, employee well-being and job involvement of the University, where the quality of work life and employee well-being are independent variables, while the job involvement is the dependent variable. Structured questionnaire is used to collect the data for this study and general information include in part one and research information include in part two. The population of the study is about 310 operational level employees in the University and primary data that will be used for the study of operational level employees who are working using stratified random sampling. The collecting data will be analyzed using unilabiate and bivariate analysis. In accordance with literature review and existing findings, there are literature and empirical knowledge gaps regarding the relationships among quality of work life, employee well – being and job involvement of the Industries. This study will be conducted to fill these gaps at the Eastern University, Sri Lanka.

Keywords: Quality of work life, fair and appropriate salary, working conditions, employee’s capacity at work, Opportunities at work, employee well-being and Job involvement.

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