Effect of Employee Health and Safety Approaches to Assess the Worth of Work Life Balances among Nakuru Town East Sub-county Based Private Primary Schools Teachers

Abstract

Quality of work life (QWL) is another control in the sense of managing individuals' life which it considers individuals as an 'asset' to an institution and not as costs (Eurofound, 2006). The approach has faith that individuals perform best when allowed to partake in supervision of their tasks during the process of making their decisions. QWL pursues to build a work culture of dedication to companies in order to make sure that there is a rise in production and that the workforce are highly gratified with their activity. The primary objective is to find the effect of safety as well as health related policies in case of measuring the quality of work life balance among teachers in private primary schools in Nakuru East Sub-County.

The study was based on Maslow's Theory and Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory. Cross-sectional survey was used as the research design. Samples have been collected from Nakuru Town East Sub County based primary schools' teachers. A sample of 187 respondents was used derived using Yamane's simplified formula. The study further makes use of proportionate stratified random sampling method. During analysis descriptive statistics included percentages, frequencies, measures of central tendencies (mean) and measures of dispersion (standard deviation). Inferential statistics, particularly regression and correlation analyses were used to establish mathematical models and nature of relationships between variables respectively. Results will then be presented in graphs and tables.  The findings show that selected work environment is 47.4% as explained by the independent variables under this study while 52.6% is the variation due to other factors which have not been covered in this study.  There exists a strong positive and significant relationship (r = .472, P=0.000) between employee health and safety policies on quality of work life balance among teachers in private primary schools in Nakuru Town East Sub-County, Kenya. The study concluded that private primary schools regularly conduct health and safety audits. Moreover, training provided on health and safety policies is adequate. Further, a good occupational health and safety program fosters a sense of job security. The study recommends that private primary schools should regularly conduct health and safety audits which are adequate