A Cross – Cultural Study on Job Satisfaction, Quality of Work Life and Emotional Intelligence between Iranian and Indian Female Employees

Women in developing countries have competed to initiate an identity and make a capacity for themselves and show their abilities at work environment. The study was intended to examine whether cross - cultural differences exist with regard to job satisfaction, quality of work Life and emotional intelligence between Indian and Iranian female university employees. The sample size including ۹۳ female employees from University of Sistan and Baluchestan and ۷۰ employees from Delhi University that were randomly chosen for this research and they completed the measures of Job Satisfaction, Quality of Work Life and Emotional Intelligence. For analyzing the data t – test and One – Way MANOVA were performed. The findings illustrated that there was significant cross – cultural differences on job satisfaction, job and career, home-work interface, working conditions, and total scores of quality of work life, sensitivity, maturity, competency and overall emotional intelligence with regard to gender. The significant finding was that Iranian female employees felt more entitled than did Indian female employees.

Keywords:

Job Satisfaction , Quality of Work Life , Emotional Intelligence , Iranian and Indian Female Employees