Inspecting the Impact of Quality of Working Life on Work Engagement: A Comparative Study between Turkey and Bangladesh

The concept of work life quality (WLQ) and work engagement has become a major focus of academic institutions in developing and underdeveloped countries. Good WLQ ensures high work engagement that eventually helps to attain organizational goals by ensuring efficient employee performances. Universities in Turkey and Bangladesh are playing crucial role in reshaping the society by Offering in-depth research generated information, and it is expected to have a substantial role of WLQ in exploring the potentials of academicians and administrative staffs of universities. The study therefore aims to examine the WLQ based on some selected attributes as employee job satisfaction, working benefits, service condition and attitude of employee. After measuring the attributes of WLQ, the study examines the association of WLQ with the employee's work engagement employing ordinary least square method. Work engagement, job satisfaction, Work benefits, Service condition, and employee attitude are found as major components that shape the quality of work life in the selected are for the study. After testing the required data the study had found that all the components of WLQ had significant role in employee work engagement with the academic organization for both Bangladesh and Turkey. But the intensity of the impact of the different components is found different the two countries. Service conditions in the universities of Bangladesh had great contribution in employee work engagement. In contrast to that, job satisfaction had found playing major role in employee work engagement in Turkey. Findings of the present study will add value in the existing literature of work lie quality and employee engagement. The academic institution is expected to engage the academic staff more positively applying the information generated from the study.