A DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF PERCEPTIONS OF WORKING LIFE QUALITY

The quality of working life; is a system that aims the increasing of the productivity in line with the benefits of the institution, taking into consideration the expectations, attitudes and thoughts of the employees. The quality of working life refers to the perceptions of different subjects about the institution that individual is working with. These perceptions of employees will have an impact on situations such as job satisfaction of the employee, desire to work long time in the work place. In this study, the perceptions of the quality of working life of the employees were examined in terms of their demographic characteristics.Field survey method was used in the study. The questionnaire consists of two parts. The first part contains questions about the demographic characteristics of employees. In the second part, there are questions aimed at measuring the perceptions of the employees about the factors affecting the quality of working life.According to the obtained data, "Occupational Accident, Occupational Disease Risks and Physical Working Conditions at Work" is the least effective factor, while "Organizational Social Integration" is the most important factor in the perceptions of the working life quality for participants in this study. In addition, it was proved that the employees who participated in the research showed statistically significant differences of their quality of working life according to the gender and educational status levels, but the employees did not show any difference in terms of marital status age and working time. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk