Quality of Working Life and Empowerment Predicting Organizational Loyalty of Employees

Abstract

This This research aimed to 1) study the level of quality of working life, empowerment, and organizational loyalty of employees, 2) study the correlation between quality of working life and organizational loyalty of employees, 3)study the correlation between empowerment and organizational loyalty of employees, and 4) predict organizational loyalty of employees from quality of working life and empowerment. Samples were 80 employees working in a government-owned company working to develop industrial estates. Research instrument was a questionnaire. Statistics used for analyzing data were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The results showed that 1) average quality of working life of employees was in a high level ( = 3.62, S.D. = .76), average empowerment was in a high level ( = 3.72, S.D. = .75), and organizational loyalty of employees was in a high level ( = 3.72, S.D. = .82), 2) quality of working life was positively correlated with organizational loyalty of employees (r = .472) at a statistical significance level of .01, 3) empowerment was positively correlated with organizational loyalty of employees (r = .558) at a statistical significance level of .01, and 4) empowerment could predict organizational loyalty of employees at a statistical significance level of .01, considered as 31.20%.