The Effect of Quality of Work Life on Employees’ Commitment Across Nigerian Tech Start-Ups

Qualify work life is an organizational phenomenon that benefits both employers and employees alike. As such, research continues to focus on how to draw out employee commitment, given quality of work life. Ranging from increased employee productivity to balance between work life and family life, literature has it that organizational goals become more achievable, if desired quality of work life is provided by the employer. Nevertheless, little or no attention has been given to startups in terms of empirically carrying out studies to determine how quality of work life influences employee commitment in them. In this paper, staffs of 10 selected techstart-ups located in Lagos have been surveyed using a questionnaire form. Four hypotheses were developed with a sample data of 300 employees across the different tech-start-ups. By carrying out a structural equation modeling and moderating the relationship with gender and marital, it was observed that employee commitment is largely influenced by quality of work life.