Teachers' quality of work life in secondary schools

Abstract

The purpose of this research as a causal-comparative design was to compare the rate of quality of work Life among technical and theoretical high school teachers in Kordestan province in Iran. Quality of work life is a process by which interest groups in the organization will learn how to work better together, how to determine for themselves what activities, changes and improvements are desirable and effective to the organization to be more efficient; as teachers at technical schools have different integration in the organization, work life and social dependence, overall living space from the other theoretical schools, thus, leading to different development of human capability and growth opportunities. Sample consisted of 410 high school teachers selected by cluster sampling. The questionnaire of quality of work Life (QWL) was used. The reliability of the instrument was calculated to be 0.98 by Cronbach alpha. The data were analyzed by using descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that (a) the quality of work Life among technical and theoretical high school teachers in Kordestan was average; and (b) there was no meaningful relationship between high school type (technical and theoretical) and quality of work life. There were no differences in types of high schools ' QWL and all technical and theoretical high schools in Kordestan province have the same quality of work life.   Key words: Quality of work life, organization health, high school teachers, technical schools, theoretical schools.