The Relationship between Quality of Working Life and Work-family Conflict among Nurses of Tehran University of Medical Science's Hospitals

Nowadays, quality of working life as a universal concept of human resource management and organizational development have been regarded and improving it, is key to successfully managing any organization. This study was conducted to survey Relationship between Quality of working life and Work-family conflict among Nurses of Hospitals in Tehran. This study is descriptive –analytic that performed cross sectional. The study population was the nurses of the hospitals of the Tehran University of Medical sciences (N=215).The data was gathered using two questionnaires, Quality of working life components of Casio and questionnaire of work-family conflict prepared based on Carlson. Cronbach's alpha was used to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. Spearman correlation test was used for statistical analysis. There was no significant relationship between Education and work facilities (Quality of working life components) with the work-family conflict (p >0.05).but relationship between the democracy, participation in decision making, job design, workplace in organization with the work-family conflict was significant (p <0.05).finally, between Quality of working life and work-family conflict a significant relationship was observed (p <0.001). Because the significant relationship was observed between the Quality of working life and work-family conflict among the nurses, It can be concluded that Work-family conflict be reduced with improve of Quality of working life.