The association between employees' perception of three socio-cultural dimensions, quality of work life and psychological well-being

Especially since 2000's, the impact of globalization has been observed increasingly throughout the world, and in all socio-economic areas of the countries; thus it creates important effects in people's individual life. Along with this global transformation, many companies in the world and in Turkey have started to operate more widely in different countries. As a result, the working life quality of employees and importance of their individual happiness have increased even more, because their employees have become more important for these companies in order to be successful and grow more effectively. Working happily in an organization, allows employees to be more committed to their company and also causes employees to do more useful things. In this study, the quality of work life of employees, psychological well-being perceptions and three basic socio-cultural dimensions were examined. For this study, data was obtained from employees in three different medium and large scale organizations which are operating in service and IT sectors. After missing and incorrect answers have been eliminated from a total of 185 distributed questionnaires, 160 items were used in the analyzes. And 36 different questions were asked to participants who have different age groups, positions and gender, about psychological well-being, quality of work life and socio-cultural differences. Data which was obtained from the questionnaires, were analyzed using descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses. First of all, it is important to note that the level of quality of life and the level of perception of "well-being" in the enterprises to which the employees are affiliated, are quite low. While it seems appropriate that the "power distance" among socio-cultural dimensions is high at a certain level, the dimensions of "uncertainty avoidance" and "masculinity- femininity" are perceived as lower, indicating that workers are ready for a certain struggle in their lives and defend gender equality. The results of the analyses indicate that there is a meaningful, strong and positive relationship between quality of work life and psychological well-being of employees. In addition, it has been found out that only uncertainty avoidance from investigated socio-cultural dimensions has a significant effect on the quality of work life and participants' psychological well-being. One of the other important results of the study is that it is understood that holding a managerial position does not affect the relationship between quality of work life and psychological well-being.