Association of demographic variables on quality of work life of teaching staff in private engineering colleges

Technological advancement is showing enormous impact on the modern civilization and it has changed the pace and face of the economies of the world. At this juncture, engineering colleges are playing pivotal role in producing highly talented human capital, which is inevitably a factor in making the economy vibrant. In this context, faculty members constitute an important element in the teaching-learning process and delivery of outcomes. Quality teaching learning systems and processes as well as quality faculty are inevitable in transmission of knowledge and skills to the students. Further, modern organizations are trying to reinvent their cultures with high emphasis on positive workplace behaviours and attitudes in their employees. In this connection Quality of work life practices are considered as useful in promoting positive workplace behaviour and attitudes. Thus perceived positive quality of work life experience in the private engineering college employees may affect the outcomes at work place. The universe of the study includes 6 private engineering colleges situated in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh State and 837 college teachers were working. A sample of 209 respondents (comprises 25%) was collected from the universe. The researcher has chosen survey based descriptive research design in view of nature of the present study. Simple percentages, Descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, and One-way ANOVA and Chi-square test was conducted. As per the results, mother tongue, technical/non-technical educational background of the respondents and their annual pay has shown highly significant association with the perceived Quality of Work Life in these respondents.