Nayeri Nahid Dehghan, Salehi Tahmineh, Noghabi Ahmad Ali Asadi
Nursing and Midwifery Research Care Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Contemp Nurse. 2011 Aug;39(1):106-18. doi: 10.5172/conu.2011.39.1.106.
Nurses are amongst the employees whose lives are fully affected by the quality of work life (QWL) as a consequence of dynamic changes in work environment. Excessive workload and poor work conditions are focal issues in nursing. The QWL assessment is an important and basic effort to deal with this issue. Moreover, staff productivity is a worthy goal of organizations tending to grow. If the relationship between the QWL and productivity becomes apparent, managers can provide conditions for promoting the QWL for personnel to be productive. To our knowledge, these variables and their relationships have not been studied yet among Iranian nurses. This descriptive study was carried out to investigate the relationship between the QWL and productivity among 360 clinical nurses working in the hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Findings showed that the QWL is at a moderate level among 61.4% of the participants. Only 3.6% of the nurses reported that they were satisfied with their works. None of those who reported the productivity as low reported their work life quality to be desirable. Spearman-rho test showed a significant relationship between productivity and one's QWL (p < 0.001). Considering the results, managers should adopt appropriate policies to promote the QWL and productivity.
护士是其生活因工作环境的动态变化而受到工作生活质量（QWL）全面影响的员工群体之一。工作量过大和工作条件差是护理工作中的焦点问题。对工作生活质量的评估是解决这一问题的重要且基础的举措。此外，员工生产力是倾向于发展的组织的一个重要目标。如果工作生活质量与生产力之间的关系变得清晰，管理者就能为提高员工生产力创造促进工作生活质量的条件。据我们所知，在伊朗护士群体中尚未对这些变量及其关系进行研究。本描述性研究旨在调查德黑兰医科大学附属医院360名临床护士的工作生活质量与生产力之间的关系。研究结果显示，61.4%的参与者的工作生活质量处于中等水平。只有3.6%的护士表示对自己的工作感到满意。那些认为生产力低的人中，没有人认为自己的工作生活质量令人满意。斯皮尔曼等级相关检验显示生产力与个人工作生活质量之间存在显著关系（p < 0.001）。鉴于这些结果，管理者应采取适当政策来提高工作生活质量和生产力。
