Quality of working life and its relationship with organizational commitment in companies.

The world is currently globalized and presents political, economic, social and cultural facets that demand from human beings attitudes of openness, collaboration and inquiry, in order to adapt to the accelerated process of scientific and technological development that is currently taking place, and to provide answers to the challenge of mastering the large volume of information and knowledge that can be accessed, while meeting the innumerable needs that a diversified and intercultural environment demands. Therefore, the most outstanding people are those who not only possess intellectual capital but are also capable of applying this knowledge in a timely manner depending on the demands.

For some decades now, the people who manage organizations have been trying harder to find a way to improve their operability and efficient functioning. Thus, an idea handled some time ago, was that of a vision of organizations as a means to be competitive; as well as to achieve benefits, supported by an excessive division of labor at the operational levels, also in the centralization of decisions within the highest levels of the organization, in which workers were not hired to think, but to obey, and to execute the tasks entrusted to them exactly as they were requested.

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Thus, researchers in different parts of the world have set themselves the task of identifying the nature of each of the possible bonds that can attach an employee to his or her work environment; they have also focused on analyzing what are the main behaviors that derive from each of these relationships and, of course, what factors or variables influence the development of these bonds. This set of bonds that keep a subject attached to a particular company has been called organizational commitment, which has repercussions on the quality of employees' working life.

In this sense, it is understood that the phenomenon of globalization has brought as consequences, numerous and diverse changes that have a notorious influence on what man does within his society, forcing him to diversify and incorporate in himself a philosophy of innovation to be able to adapt to a constantly changing reality. Thus, as society evolves from the technical, social and economic point of view, the quality of life expectations of human beings are raised, so that organizations today are in the need to structurally change their identity in order to respond to the needs and demands of its staff, thus achieving strengthen the links between the organization and its employees to improve and achieve the desired productive levels.

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It can be indicated that variables such as organizational commitment and quality of work life have become the focus of attention of many studies, derived from organizational behavior; therefore, it can be mentioned that in Latin America, one of the fundamental reasons why this has happened is that several investigations have been able to demonstrate that commitment to the organization is usually a better predictor of turnover and punctuality. Under these premises, it should also be mentioned that currently, organizations face great challenges due to the continuous economic, political and social changes in the business world, which is why today's companies have been given the task of ensuring both favorable conditions and a pleasant working environment. Therefore, it is necessary to keep employees not only highly motivated, but also trained to face the changes that nowadays are presented in any organization, both public and private.