Avaliação da qualidade de vida no trabalho: panorama dos professores do ensino superior nas áreas de engenharias da cidade de Ponta Grossa/PR

Abstract

The measurement of Quality of Working Life (QWL) can serve to verify the motivation of a worker and then, the company can devise strategies to increase productivity or reduce absenteeism, improving the company image. This research aims at establishing a municipal panorama of the QWL of the professors of Public and Private Higher Education Institutions (HEI) of the Engineers courses in the city of Ponta Grossa / PR. The literature review explains the concept of QWL and presents the Walton QWL model (1973). This was used to evaluate professors' QWL. The research was carried out during the second semester of 2016 by means of an electronic questionnaire distributed to the professors, the questionnaire is the cultural adaptation developed by Timossi et al. (2010), based on the Walton model. The result of the general overview of the QWL of public and private HEI professors in Ponta Grossa municipality shows satisfaction with tending to neutrality (61.96%) regarding the perception of total QWL.