Quality of Work Life – Linkage with Job Satisfaction and Performance R.Gayathiri

The increased complexity of today’s environment poses several challenges to hospital management during the next decade. Trends such as changing organizational structures, increased knowledge and specialisation, interdisciplinary collaboration, advancement of technology, new health problems and health care policy, and sophistication in medical education have a part to play. All these affect the nursing profession and skill requirements as well as their commitment to performance in hospitals. In view of this, hospital management has to ensure quality of life for nurses that can provide satisfaction and enhance job performance. In this paper, an attempt is made to review the literature on quality of life to identify the concept and measurement variables as well its linkage with satisfaction and performance. Keywords–– quality of life, job performance, job satisfaction