title: Radiology employees' quality of work life.
abstract: Quality of work Life (QWL) originates from interactions between employees' needs and relative organizational resources. QWL is aimed to improve and retain employees' satisfaction, productivity and effectiveness of all organizations. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 15 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. A Cross-Sectional, descriptive study was conducted among 15 Tehran University of Medical Sciences' Hospitals' Radiology Departments' Employees by QWL questionnaire. Respondents were asked to express their attitudes about a range of key factors as the most important issues impacting their QWL. The data was collected and analyzed by SPSS version 15 software. Most of the respondents indicated that they were unsatisfied and very unsatisfied with key factors of their QWL. Comparison of QWL key factors of TUMS radiology employees with the other countries indicated that most of the employees are unsatisfied with their poor QWL factors. We hope, the implications of these findings deliberate to improve QWL within each of TUMS hospitals radiology departments and also be relevant and value to policymakers of healthcare organizations in Iran.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Care Management, School of Allied Health Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. hdargahi@sina.tums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Hussein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dargahi
authors.forename: Vahid
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Changizi
authors.forename: Elaheh
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jazayeri Gharabagh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult