A study on quality of work life elements that increase mindfulness in female academics

The aim of the study is to determine which organizational factors effect the mindfulness that effect to a wide range of outcomes at the individual and organizational level. Literature reviews in this respect point out to the quality of working life. With this purpose, the subject has been researched in the context of female academics who face various difficulties in terms of working life. Due to the absence of a model that reflects the quality of working life in all aspects for the female academics, developing the quality of working life scale of female academics was another aim. The last aim of study is to determine the mediating effect of mindfulness at the effect of quality of working life to positive organizational outcomes. The study, which was constructed with the exploratory sequential mixed method, consists of three research processes. In the first research process, structured interview was conducted with 30 female academic in order to determine the components of quality of working life of female academics. At the end of this process, the components of quality of working life were determined within the framework of female academics and divided into categories. In the second research process, a pilot study was performed to 275 female academics. As a result of this process, quality of working life scale was obtained which consisting of 28 items and 7 dimensions. In the third and final research process, expressed research questions are answered. In this context, the effect of the quality of working life on mindfulness was analyzed. In addition, the effect of mindfulness on organizational outputs was researched in the context of female academics. Finally, the mediating role of mindfulness was analyzed at the effect of quality of working life on organizational outcomes. Research data were obtained from 516 female academics. According to the obtained findings, the quality of working life positively affects mindfulness. At the same time, it has been determined that the mindfulness has a positive effect on positive organizational outputs such as workplace happiness and job satisfaction. In addition, mindfulness plays a partial mediating role in the effect of quality of working life on workplace happiness and job satisfaction. Another important result is that the components of the quality of working life that create mindfulness consist of the balance of work-family roles, person-job fit, legal factors and corporate belonging attitude. Finally, mindfulness plays a full mediating role in the effect of person-job fit, which is a sub-dimension of the quality of working life, on workplace happiness.