Indicadores de qualidade de vida no trabalho para professores de instituições públicas de ensino superior: Uma comparação entre Brasil e Canadá.

The main objective of this article is to assess the indicators of quality of working life (QWL) for academics and compare indicators of QWL in public universities in Brazil and Canada. The sample of this study consists of 205 professors of Minas Gerais and 269 from Quebec. Data were collected through an online questionnaire administered in February and March 2013.Three significant differences were found between the two samples: the meaning at work, affective commitment and continuance commitment. Brazilian professors seem to find more meaning in work than Canadian professors and they have more affective commitment with their institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]