Quality of Life and Quality of Work Life Balance: Case Study of Public and Private Sectors of Lithuania

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Abstract

The main aim of this article is to compare the quality of life and quality of work-life balance among employees working in the public and private sectors of Lithuania. The authors research showed that the most important factors of quality of life for private sector workers are absence of stress, follow mode, changes, use ecological products, whereas in public sector - also absence of stress and ecological products, but in contrast private sector for them are important satisfaction of communication and healthy food. The greatest impact on the quality of work-life has the nature of work, relationships with management and colleagues, environment and workload. The high value of the quality of work-life directly influences the higher quality of life.

Keywords: quality of life, quality of work life, quality of life and quality of work life balance, public sector, private sector.

1.Introduction

Today Quality of Life (QoL) is one of the various areas of interest to scientists. Happiness, well-being, life satisfaction, and all this in a general sense - is the most human aspiration of QoL (Ruzevicius & Braskuté - Saulé, 2015). QoL in a rapidly developing world is becoming more important because, despite the prevalence of smart technology and growth, which should facilitate a person's life, more and more people feel unhappy and depressed. Increasingly, it is recognized that both the QoL, both quality of work-life (QWL), and especially - the balance is the key of a happy and meaningful life factors. QoL and QWL were started to explore the last century in the second half and benefited from growing scientific interest because of their importance for a happy life. Distancing absence leads to poor quality of the rest, resulting in stress and health problems (Akranaviciüté & Ruzevicius, 2007; Rapley, 2008; Ruzevicius, 2oi3). In the Lithuania researches, which are about the QoL, usually associated with health, economics, sociology, however, does not carry out the QoL and QWL balance, distinguishing between public and private sector workers' assessments, this topic is not widely explored in the literature. QoL and QWL, the balance of the most important factors of invention, the received data examination and interpretation of the results would make it easier to achieve the life and work balance.

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