Temperament of It Professionals with their Quality of Work Life in Selected Urban Areas

Abstract

Improving an employee’s quality of work life improves the employee’s state of wellbeing and at the same time increases the company’s productivity. The temperament of an individual is influenced by genes and contributes to behavioral decisions. The study aims to identify the temperament of the IT professionals and understand how it may affect their quality of life, in turn to take the necessary measures to cope up, thus, promoting the overall health and wellbeing.

Problem Statement: “A study to correlate the temperament of IT professionals with their quality of work life in selected urban areas”.

Objectives: of the study are to assess the temperament and quality of work life of IT professionals and to correlate the temperament with the quality of work life and associate the findings with selected demographic variables.

Methods: Study design adopted is correlational descriptive design. Data collection was done digitally. Data was collected from 384 IT professionals willing to participate in the study. Data collection: was done using Likert scales for assessing temperament and quality of work life of IT professionals.

Data analysis and findings: In the demographic section, majority of the samples 39% were in the age group of 31-35, 70% of the samples were females, 68% were graduates, 39% of them had their income in the range of 40,000-45,000/- 49% had 5years and more work experience, 74% of them worked in day shift, 52% of them worked 21 to 30 hours extra then the schedule in the given month, and 44% mentioned they never work from home. The assessment of their quality of work life showed that 50% of the respondents had poor quality of work-life, 36.46% of the respondents had average quality of work-life, whereas only 13.54% of the respondents had good quality of work-life. The assessment of their temperament showed 26% had a sanguine temperament, 23% had a phlegmatic temperament, 31% were melancholy, while 20% had choleric temperament. On finding correlation between temperament and quality of work life, it found, a significant correlation between temperament and quality of work-life the overall r was 0.73 and p value was less than 0.05 level of significance. The association of the findings with demographic variables as regards temperament noted associated with the age, gender, education and working schedule. And the association of the findings with demographic variables as regards quality of work life noted association with age, and working schedule only.

Conclusion: The temperament and quality of work life are correlated and could influence each other.