The study of Mazandaran province public libraries manager's views toward the quality of working life and its role in their performance

This research studies managers'' views toward QWLof public libraries in Mazandaran province in Iran and its role in their performance. This study is an applied research that has been carried out by the documentary and the survey method. The information gathering tool is a questionnaire based on the Walton model that it distributed among the manager of public libraries in Mazandaran after verification of its validity and stability. Then the data has been analyzed by the T-test and Friedman. The results which are based on the managers’ viewpoints showed the average level of QWL factors were in order of 3. 0385 for the social dependency of working life، 2. 5231 for integrity and social cohesion، 2. 2981 for living overall space، 2. 1923 for health and safety environment، 2. 1192 for the development of human capabilities، 1. 9295 for the law-base organization، 1. 8702 for providing growth opportunities and safety and1. 4936 for fair and adequate pay and the only factor، the social affiliation of working life is in intermediate level. It also became clear that all known factors of the quality of working life، are effective on the performance of the managers and the factor of the health and safety environment has the most impact and the social affiliation of working life has the least impact on their performance. The results showed that none QWL factors in the Mazandaran public libraries locate in suitable situation and they located in less than intermediate level، except the social affiliation of working life that showed the intermediate level. Also، it became clear that all QWL factors have strong on the manager''s performance and the factor of fair and adequate payment and salary has the most impact on their performance after health and safety environment. Then، paying attention to these factors can improve their performance and motivate them to make their duties.