davood kianoosh

Universities are facing increasing challenges in the third millennium AD, solving such challenges requires leaders. Now, if in any way, leadership in universities is neglected or faced with imprudence, it will directly have a destructive effect on the quality of working life of employees. The aim of the research is to present a leadership model with an approach to the quality of working life of employees of Isfahan Islamic Azad Universities.

The research method is qualitative, applied study, and the data analysis method is thematic analysis. The data collection tool is an unstructured interview with 30 experts who were selected through purposive sampling.

Based on data analysis, leadership style (721 examples, 32 sub-themes, 14 main themes) and work life quality (273 examples, 23 sub-themes, 17 main themes) were presented. The obtained results led to the presentation of 6 leadership styles and 8 components of the quality of work life as a general axis, based on the number of general axes, a conceptual model of university leadership with an approach to the quality of work life of employees was presented, which was approved by management experts.

It can be concluded that the leadership style improves the quality and empowerment of employees with regard to the quality of work life

This paper aims at investigating into the impact of leadership styles on the quality of working life of Islamic Azad University of Isfahan staffs, The statistical population and sample of the study were 2113 and 325 persons respectively. The two standard questionnaires were 18 questions for leadership style and 38 questions for quality of work life, which confirmed the reliability and validity of the questionnaires. Regarding the purpose, the study is an applied work and is a survey research which its data collection has been carried out through the descriptive-analytical method. Various statistical techniques and methods such as Student’s T-Test, Factor Analysis, Logistic Regression, and Pearson and Kendall correlation coefficient were used in order to analyze the data of the study. The findings indicate that the more the administrators of the said university take the democratic leadership, the more the staffs’ quality of working life will be improved. Moreover, the democratic leadership style has positive impact on parameters such as team communication, work stress relief, organizational commitment, organizational partnership, organizational conflict reduction, support of administrators, support of colleagues, role clarity and delegation of authority. However, it had no impact on safe and healthy work environment as well as salary.