Investication of factors influencing on quality of work life and employee performance: special reference to civil engineers in state and private organizations of Ampara District in Sri Lanka comparative study

Abstract

The objective of the study is to find out the influence of non-financial motivational factors on the quality of work-life of civil engineers to improve their performance in selected private and government organizations in the Ampara district of Sri Lanka. This study involved 100 civil engineers who were selected from both the government and private sector in the Ampara district. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Six hypotheses have been formulated separately for the private & government sectors as this was a comparative study. CDG, JSS, WLB &PHW were independent variables and QWL & EP was intermediate, dependent variable respectively for this study. Based on the hypothesis testing, as there was a positive relationship between independent variables & QWL whereas between QWL &EP for both sectors, all hypotheses on behalf of government & private sectors were accepted. According to the Descriptive analysis mean result value for the public sector in CDG, EP, WLB, JSIS , PHW and QWL was 3.108, 3.15, 3.1, 3.04, 3.33 & 3.04 respectively ,whereas descriptive result in private sector is 3.108, 3.424, 2.5, 3.198, 3.17 and 2.968 respectively. It shows that most civil engineers in both sectors choose the average value. According to the Correlation analysis the Pearson correlation value for the public sector between CDG, JSJS, WLB, PHW, and QWL, and EP was 0.491,0.516, 0.611, 0.529 and .781 respectively. Whereas the Pearson correlation value in private sector 0.919, 0.921, 0.683, 0.875 and 0.848 respectively. So, according to the correlational analysis, the correlation between QWL and EP is positively impacted, whereas the correlation between QWL and other factors is relatively impacted in the public sector. Correlation between quality of work-life and other factors is positively impacted in the private sector. Therefore, the implication of this study is that QWL is positively related at a significant level with CDG, JSJS, WLB, PHW, and EP in the private sector against the public sectors. Keywords: Career development & growth (CDG) 1, job satisfaction &job security (JSJS) 2, work-life balance (WLB) 3, personal health &well-being (PHW) 4, and employee performance (EP) 5.