Self-Management Skills and Their Relationship to the Quality of Work Life among a Sample of Faculty Members at the Universities of Damascus and Al-Sham Private

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the level of both self-management skills and quality of work life, to identify the relationship between self-

management skills and quality of work life, and to determine whether quality of work life can be predicted through self-management skills. It also aims to reveal the differences between the average scores of sample members on the self-management skills scale and the quality of work life questionnaire according to the variables: (gender, type of university, academic rank). For this purpose, a sample of (250) faculty members was selected. The self-management skills scale prepared by (Mansour, Abdel Moneim, and Rayyan, 2015) and the quality of work life questionnaire prepared by (the two researchers) were used. The research reached the following results: There is a high level of the following self-management skills: (self-organization, time management, self-confidence, self-control, self-motivation), there is an average level of the dimensions of quality of work life: (social, personal, organizational), and a low level of the dimension of material quality of work life, and that the quality of work life can be predicted through some independent variables, there is a positive and statistically significant correlation, there is a statistically significant difference between the average scores of the sample members on the self-management skills scale and the quality of work life questionnaire according to the gender variable, and on the dimension (material quality of life) according to the variable of university type, while there is no significant difference between the average scores of the sample members on the self-management skills scale according to the variables (type of university, academic rank), and on the quality of work life questionnaire according to the variable of academic rank.