The study aims to reveal quality of work life and its effect upon entrepreneurial thinking, and it results from a problem that most service organizations suffer from, poor working environment conditions for individuals, which affected the efficiency of their performance when demonstrating their abilities and creative ideas during their work. So, the study community is the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs with a sample of (214) individuals out of the total community of officials in the middle management of the bodies and departments of the ministry with a number (478). The questionnaire was used as a main tool, visits and personal interviews, and the analytical descriptive approach was adopted using the statistical measures Cronbach's Alpha, weighted arithmetic means, standard deviations, (Z-TEST) and (F-TEST), the relative importance and simple and multiple linear regression analysis, stepwise with the help of AMOS25, Excel v.10 and SPSS v.25 programs. The most prominent conclusions are the presence of a top correlation between the quality of work life and entrepreneurial thinking at a significant level, the high correlation with the entrepreneurial thinking is the organization climate , and the lower correlation with the entrepreneurial thinking are fees and bonuses , as well as the presence of a noticeable effect on the quality of life with its six dimensions together in the entrepreneurial thinking of the Ministry with a factor of determining its rate (74.4%) at a moral level. By diagnosing the most influential dimensions in entrepreneurial thinking by analyzing the gradual linear regression to indicate the organizational climate, training and development of employees, health conditions and occupational keep, and opportunities for Upgrading and career advancement, Collectively in entrepreneurial thinking with a factor of determination of (72.4%) at the level of significance less than the level of morale and exclude wages, bonuses and material work environment that is less influenced in the entrepreneurial thinking.
Keywords
Quality of Work Life; Entrepreneurial Thinking; Organizational Climate; Proactivity; The Quality of Work Life (QWL).
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Chandrani Bojar, “Quality of Work Life and Its Effect Upon Entrepreneurial Management”, Journal of Enterprise and Business Intelligence, vol.1, no.2, pp. 079-095, April 2021. doi: 10.53759/5181/JEBI202101010.
