ArticleHeliyon2023
Quality of work life and organizational commitment of the academic staff in Ethiopian universities.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Contextualized job crafting model: a quantitative study in the context of Pakistan.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Occupational Factors on QOL of University Teachers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Investigating the organizational commitment and its associated factors among the staff of the health sector: a cross-sectional research.BMC health services research · 2024Article
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- The intention to leave among academics in Iran: an examination of their work-life quality and satisfaction.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Spanish Version of a Scale to Evaluate the Quality of Work Life in Teachers: An Adaptation of Walton's QWL Model in the Peruvian Context.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Academic staffs are essential to the universities mission and vision achievement. However, in Ethiopia, universities are characterized by poor working conditions, lower quality of work-life and commitment, and higher turnover. The main purpose of this study was to investigate factors related to the quality of work-life and examine the effect of quality of work-life on the academic staff's organizational commitment in Ethiopia. The study employed an explanatory design and a quantitative approach. The data for the research is collected through a structured five-point Likert scale questionnaire from 185 samples that were selected using a simple random sampling technique. Confirmatory Factor Analysis is employed to determine the relationship between the manifest and latent variables that fit each other. The final step is the structural equation model, which develops a new proof of the author's proposed theory. As per the Structural Equation Model results, compensation, reward, and work-life balance are statistically significant and positively related to the organizational commitment of the academic staff. Further, quality of work-life is found to have a statistically significant and positive association with the organizational commitment of higher education teachers. As a result, maintaining a more balanced work-life balance through appropriate strategic human resource management is critical to increasing academic staff work engagement and improving the university's quality of services.
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