Factors influencing quality of work life – A study with reference to level of agreement by women entrepreneurs

Women entrepreneur is a person who accepts challenging role to meet her personal needs and become economically independent. Issues are so demanding that it imbalance the family and work life due to job pressure and conflicting interests. A proper work life balance can have positive effects on women entrepreneurs’ well-being. Now-a-days, Women entrepreneur plays a key role in opening up new opportunities for promoting growth of the organization through quality of work life. Quality of work life provides opportunity for continued growth and security by expanding women entrepreneurs’ capabilities, knowledge and qualifications. This paper attempts to find the factors determining quality of work life of women entrepreneurs. Chi-square test has been used to identify the significant relationship between the demographic profile and the business profile of the respondents. ANOVA is applied to identify the significant difference among the respondents regarding level of agreement towards factors contributing quality of work life based on their demographic and business profile. It was concluded that place of residence, size of the enterprise and legal status of the business are positively influencing the factors contributing towards quality of work life of women entrepreneurs.