The Dimensions of Quality of Life at Work in Private Companies

Abstract

The quality of life at work (QLW) arises in the academic literature in the mid-twentieth century from the interdisciplinarity between areas of human knowledge to solve the problems of the relationship between the engineering of production of goods and the life dimension of individuals outside the work environment. In this work, we try to fill gaps that persist in this scientific field by validating an instrument of evaluation of QVT in private companies, based on the works of Walton (1973) and using a form already applied to the public sector. The objective of this study was to investigate the explanatory variables of the QVT of the private employee. For this, a quantitative methodological approach was used with factorial analysis and multiple regression techniques. The results point to safe and healthy working conditions as a preponderant factor and the tested model was validated, making possible its replicas in other empirical contexts and the expansion of its scope.