Abstract:

This study investigates the effect of quality of work life on proactive and prosocial organizational behaviors. Previous studies suggest that organizational factors as precursors of employees’ positive organizational behaviors. Accordingly, the extent of the study composed of prosocial and proactive behaviors as part of positive organizational behaviors and one of the organizational determinants of these behaviors which is characterized as QWL. For this purpose, 218 employees who are working in private hospitals in Istanbul have participated in the study. In this respect, exploratory and conŞrmatory factor analysis and the structural equation modelling applied to the data obtained from employees in hospitals. Based on the findings, significant relationships have been observed between some of the dimensions of QWL and employees proactive and prosocial behaviors. However, QWL affects employees co-worker oriented and individual proactive behaviors and extra-role prosocial behaviors. Moreover, QWL is found out have no effect on employee’s organizational oriented proactive behaviors, role-prescribed and cooperation prosocial behaviors

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