Mohsen  Entezam, Mehdi  Khorvash, 
    Evaluation of the Quality of Working Life and Productivity in Active Manufacturing Cooperatives of Isfahan’s Industry Sector with Regard to Demographic Factors,
    International Business Management,
    Volume 10,Issue 16,
    2016,
    Pages 3518-3522,
    ISSN 1993-5250,
    ibm.2016.3518.3522,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.3518.3522)
    Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of working life and productivity in active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector and the role of demographic factors in the efficiency of the cooperatives’ employees. This study is practical in terms of aim and descriptive-survey in terms of collecting data. The population of the research is the staff and managers of the active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector that are working in 1394 and the sample size became 254 people, through the stratified random sampling. To collect information for this study, working life quality questionnaire in 1390 and the productivity questionnaire of Hersey and Goldsmith were used. Based on the results, the average quality of working life in the active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector is 2.80 and productivity is 3.22. The results showed that demographic factors of gender, age and education do not affect the productivity of the employees in the active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector while years of service and the income level of employees has a significant and positive impact on their productivity in the active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector.
    Keywords: the active manufacturing cooperatives of Isfahan’s industry sector;demographic factors;productivity;Quality of working life;Iran