The quality movement in health care has recognized better quality of work life (QWL) of employees as an important rubric for a health care organization’s performance. Health care employees are the front lines of the health care delivery system. However, studies on the QWL of private health care unit’s employees are limited.
Methodology
This research investigates the relationship between QWL, organizational performance (OP) and employee commitment (EC). A self-designed questionnaire was distributed to 300 health care employees. Out of which only 205 valid responses were received resulting in a response rate of 68 per cent from the survey. The data were analyzed using SPSS 20.
Results
The findings show that EC acts as a partial and a significant mediator in the relationship between QWL and OP. Mediation analysis was also conducted for each dimension of QWL, EC and OP to reinforce the results.
Conclusions and Recommendations
Findings can be used by health care units’ managers and policy makers to design and implement appropriate initiatives to improve QWL. Better QWL is the key to attract and retain qualified and motivated employees and can possibly lead to enhanced quality of services in health care organizations.
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