Meta-analysis of Researches on Work Life Quality of Higher Education Institutions Faculty Members

This study aims to conduct meta-analysis on investigating about faculty members’ working life quality in higher education organizations. The statistical community includes all conducted researches on faculty members’ working life quality in higher education organizations of Iran, by the end of 2014. 24 researches were chosen as being suitable to do meta-analysis through purposeful sampling. The research instrument was a checklist for selecting researches from technical and methodological aspects.
The preferential meta-analysis model contained the mixed approach of Hunter and Smith. In addition, Cohen’s approach was used for interpreting research findings. The findings showed that the effectiveness of faculty members’ working life quality in higher education organizations is 0.456, which is higher than average according to interpreting indexes. The dimensions of faculty members’ working life quality in higher education organizations include fair payment, safe working environment, providing the opportunity to grow, legal positivism in labor organization, social dependence to working life, social integration and human capabilities development, which were significant in 0.001 levels.