Quality of School Work Life of Public School Teachers: Cases from Turkey and Pakistan
The Quality of Work life (QWL) is the employees’ feeling or perception of being comfortable with their work. The objective of the present study was to compare Quality of School Work Life (QSWL) of public school teachers from Turkey and Pakistan. A QSWL scale developed by Ilgan, Ata, Zepeda and Ozu-C...
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doaj-d3ac29f0da3e41edac3f21e226bc62332020-11-25T03:53:18ZengInstitute of Business ManagementJournal of Education and Educational Development2310-08692313-35382017-11-0142http://dx.doi.org/10.22555/joeed.v4i2.1366Quality of School Work Life of Public School Teachers: Cases from Turkey and PakistanMuhammad Akram0Abdurrahman Ilgan1Oyku Ozu-Cengiz2Ashfaque Ahmad Shah3University of EducationDuzce UniversitIndependent Researcher and CounselorNational Research University Higher School of EconomicsThe Quality of Work life (QWL) is the employees’ feeling or perception of being comfortable with their work. The objective of the present study was to compare Quality of School Work Life (QSWL) of public school teachers from Turkey and Pakistan. A QSWL scale developed by Ilgan, Ata, Zepeda and Ozu-Cengiz (2014) having 30 items was used as the research instrument. The sample included 995 Turkish teachers (from 8 cities) and 716 Pakistani teachers (from 5 cities of Punjab). Reliability coefficient of QSWL scale was 0.81. Further, five subscales within the QSWL tools were identified through its exploratory factor analysis. On all these 5 subscales of QSWL (when analysed separately), Turkish and Pakistani teachers differed significantly in their perceptions; however, they were found appreciating similar QSWL in the aggregate analyses. In detailed analyses of various subgroups only female teachers from Pakistan were found better on QSWL than their Turkish counterparts.http://journals.iobmresearch.com/index.php/JEED/article/view/1366/9 |
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Quality of School Work Life of Public School Teachers: Cases from Turkey and Pakistan |
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Quality of School Work Life of Public School Teachers: Cases from Turkey and Pakistan |
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Journal of Education and Educational Development |
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The Quality of Work life (QWL) is the employees’ feeling or perception of being comfortable with their work. The objective of the present study was to compare Quality of School Work Life (QSWL) of public school teachers from Turkey and Pakistan. A QSWL scale developed by Ilgan, Ata, Zepeda and Ozu-Cengiz (2014) having 30 items was used as the research instrument. The sample included 995 Turkish teachers (from 8 cities) and 716 Pakistani teachers (from 5 cities of Punjab). Reliability coefficient of QSWL scale was 0.81. Further, five subscales within the QSWL tools were identified through its exploratory factor analysis. On all these 5 subscales of QSWL (when analysed separately), Turkish and Pakistani teachers differed significantly in their perceptions; however, they were found appreciating similar QSWL in the aggregate analyses. In detailed analyses of various subgroups only female teachers from Pakistan were found better on QSWL than their Turkish counterparts. |
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