Organizational culture and quality of work life as predictors of job attitude

This study set out to investigate organizational culture and quality of work life as the predictors of Job attitude of engineering college teachers. The sample consisted of 457 engineering college teachers, who completed Organizational Culture Inventory (Reena & Jayan 2010), Quality of Work life Questionnaire (Jayan, Reena, Susan & Rekha, 2010) and Job Attitude Scale (Jayan, 2004). The analysis was designed to specifically examine the relative contribution of each of the independent variables to the dependent variable through step-wise regression analysis. Stepwise regression analysis showed that R² increased from 0.263 to 0.400 with addition of each of the six variables that contributed significantly to the predictors of Job attitude. From the final regression equation it could be seen that among the different predictor variables Well-being, Work and life balance, Relationship with co-workers and authorities, Job security (Quality of work life); Organizational Glue and Organizational Leadership (Organizational culture) were positive indicators of the Job attitude of the individual, although there was a theoretical significance in showing that each variable in itself had a significant impact on Job attitude.