Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Happiness and Quality of Work Life in Teaching Hospitals of Yazd in 2023

Hasan  Jafari; Mohammad kazem  Rahimi; Mohammad Sadegh  Loeloe; Zahra  Jalaei

doi:10.18502/mshsj.v8i4.15167

Hasan Jafari Associate Professor, Management and Health Policy Research Center, Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Mohammad kazem Rahimi Assistant Professor, Management and Health Policy Research Center, Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Mohammad Sadegh Loeloe Ph.D. student of BioStatistics, Center for Healthcare Data Modeling, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of public health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Zahra Jalaei BSc student,in Health Care Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/mshsj.v8i4.15167

Keywords: Organizational happiness, Quality of work life, Employees, Hospital

Abstract

Background: A healthy organization is a place which is productive, capable, and efficient enough to deal with the competitive world. The quality of work life is important, not only to improve life at working environment but also the life outside work place; there the present study examines the relationship between organizational happiness and work life in teaching hospitals in Yazd city in 2023.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the form of a multi-stage random sampling on 215 people and among the personnel of teaching hospitals in Yazd city. Data collection tool included two standard questionnaires regarding an organizational happiness and the quality of work life. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent t-student test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson's correlation coefficient test with SPSS ₂₆ software.

Results: The findings indicated that there was no significant relationship between organizational happiness and any of the demographic variables. In addition, only the education variable (p = 0.011) had a significant relationship with the quality of life variable. Pearson's correlation test also showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between all the components of organizational happiness and the quality of work life.

Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it is necessary for managers and officials to consider organizational happiness and its important components in organizations by adopting appropriate strategies and providing necessary conditions for its promotion.