scholarly journals Work Life Balance Amongst the Working Women in Public Sector Banks - A Case Study of State Bank of India

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh K. Yadav ◽  
Nishant Dabhade
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
The Difference

In terms of Indian context, the concern over work-life balance is gradually becoming a common talk especially for women employees. Work life balance is a state of equilibrium in which the demand of both professional and personal life is equal. Each role having different set of demands and when such role demands overlap, multiple problems are faced. In reality life and work over-lap and interact. In designing the work life policies employer should think that the commitment of employees can make the difference between those companies which compete at the marketplace and those which cannot. A balanced life for women is one where they spread their energy and effort between key areas of importance. This research study aims to figure out the working environment of public sector banks for women employees and what is the perception of women about the initiative and policies of banks and effects of those initiatives on their lives. Chi square test is applied in this paper to check the authenticity of data given by the respondents. The research is conducted among working women in banks with special reference to SBI, Bhopal (M.P.) city head office. We suggest that Work-Life Balance is not a problem to be solved. It is an ongoing issue to be managed.

scholarly journals Impact of Work Life Balance and Stress Management on Job Satisfaction among the Working Women in Public Sector Banks

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 63-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh K. Yadav ◽  
Shriti Singh Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Women Employees

In today’s competitive environment, work life balance and stress management for women employees is highly desirable and if there is no job satisfaction and regularity in life, it can create a problem for working women. Stress of work life balance is seen in every corner of the world which occurs to everyone. It becomes critical when there is no job satisfaction. Work life balance requires, getting stability between professional work and personal work, so that it reduces friction between official and domestic life. The final performance of any organization depends on the performance of its employees, which in turn depends on several factors. These factors can be related to job satisfaction. An empirical study is conducted among the working women of public sector banks with the purpose of assessing impact of work life balance and stress management on job satisfaction. Secondary data is used to understand and conclude the study. Observation during the study suggests that WLB and Stress management can be achieved by the factors responsible for job satisfaction such as: encouraging social groups, accommodating working conditions, mentally challenging work, impartial rewards and employee oriented policies etc. To conclude the study, it is suggested that Work-Life Balance and stress management is not a problem to be solved, it is a constant issue to be managed.

Impact of Eustress on Work-life Balance: An Analysis on Public Sector Bank Employees in South India

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
A. C. Pavithra ◽  
V. J. Sivakumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
South India ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Psychological Conditions ◽  
Public Sector Banks ◽  
Organisational Factors

The positive psychological response to a stressor, by the occurrence of certain psychological conditions, is known as eustress. Many psychological studies suggest that the eustress can aid the person to stay motivated and achieve the goal without any psychological draining. In the present study, mediating effect of eustress on personal and organisational factors of public sector banks’ employees is investigated. Nearly 600 respondents from different banks in South India were selected randomly and the data are collected through the questionnaires. The collected data were used to analyse the formulated hypothesis. The research establishes that the relationship between individual and organisational factors and work-life balance is positive and gets enhanced and strengthened by eustress in the public banking sector.

scholarly journals Work Life Balance and Job Satisfaction among the Working Women of Banking and Education Sector - A Comparative Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 181-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh K. Yadav ◽  
Nishant Dabhade
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Effective Work

In the present scenario, work life balance for women employees is highly desirable and if there is no job satisfaction and consistency in life, it can create a dilemma for working women. Work life balance requires attaining equilibrium between professional work and personal work, so that it reduces friction between official and domestic life. The ultimate performance of any organization depends on the performance of its employees, which in turn depends on numerous factors. These factors can be related to job satisfaction or family or both. A comparative study is conducted among the working women of some Govt. colleges and national institutes of Bhopal in education sector and nationalized banks, running their in Bhopal (M.P.) for banking sector. The objective of this research is to study the working environment and women‟s perception about the work life balance and job satisfaction, who are working in banking and education sector. Apart from it, another significant objective is to study effects of work life balance on job satisfaction and initiatives taken by the organizations for effective work life balance and its relation with the job satisfaction. Standard Deviation is applied in this paper to check the authenticity of data given by the respondents of both the sectors. Finding suggests that WLB can be achieved by the factors responsible for job satisfaction such as: supportive colleagues, supportive working conditions, mentally challenging work, equitable rewards and employee oriented policies etc.

scholarly journals Basic Model of Work-life Balance for Married Women Working in Public Sector in Penang, Malaysia

Webology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 882-895
Author(s):  
Kalthum Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Employee Assistance ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Basic Model

This paper is to discuss a basic model of work-life balance for married women working in public sector. The model is formulated based surveys received from seventy-six (76) respondents working in various public sectors in Komplek Tun Abdul Razak (KOMTAR) Penang. The study discovered that basically there are two main factors contribute to work-life balance, family related factors and job-related factors. In addition, to achieve work-life balance and to ensure productive and efficient working women, there should be incentives and services provided by the employers and government/non-government agencies to ease the burden of working women both in managing their families and their work. The incentives and services suggested by the respondents are suitable and flexible leave policies, dependent care centres, flexible working hours and work-family activities and support system and also counselling service or employee assistance programme. Since the model is formulated based on a study carried-out only on a small number of respondents, further studies should be carried-out to confirm the model or to up-grade the model. However, the model can be a basic model for more detail and comprehensive model of work-life balance for working women in Malaysia in future.

scholarly journals EI and WLB Effects in Performance of Women Employees in IT Companies at Chennai

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S3) ◽  
pp. 151-154
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
Chi Square Test

Emotional Intelligence is a lot of delicate aptitudes or else the bury and intra-individual abilities of a person which thinks about one's feelings, oversee feelings, inspires one, perceive feelings in others, and to deal with the connections.. Emotional intelligence assumes an imperative job in improving the exhibition of an individual and an Organization. Work Life Balance is a provocative subject for IT officials and has likewise esplanade the specialists to do investigate in this theme. This study was led to discover the effect of Emotional Intelligence and Work life Balance on Organizational Performance with Special reference to ladies IT representatives in Chennai. Survey was conducted among 386 women IT representatives working in the IT organizations of Chennai. In this descriptive research, the convenience sampling method was used. The analysis was done by SPSS 21.0. Statistical tests such as One Way ANOVA, Chi Square Test, Correlation and Regression analysis are incorporated. The discoveries uncovered that there is a noteworthy effect of enthusiastic knowledge and work life balance on Organizational Performance of ladies IT experts in Chennai.

scholarly journals A STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF WOMEN EMPLOYEES IN IT SECTOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-73
Author(s):  
G. Balamurugan ◽  
M. Sreeleka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Women Employees

Work life balance of women employees plays the major role because they have to manage their personal life for their good quality of life. The employee’s satisfaction is based on the employee to be happy and deliver the level best. Even in the Worst scenario the employee is very loyal to their organization because of the employee Satisfaction. The quality of life is based on the professional life of each and every women employee who are coming forward to support to their family. The problem of the women employee’s face is health condition, Pregnancy discrimination, Sexual harassment, no equal pay, etc. This paper says that how the women employees are balanced and Satisfied  in IT sector and the factors that affect the work life balance of women employees are working hours, Job satisfaction, working condition, etc. and find out the women employee job satisfaction were analyzed by using statistical method that is Chi-square and Correlation test.

scholarly journals EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A STUDY OF WORKING WOMEN TEACHERS IN PUBLIC SECTOR UNIVERSITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
Sadaf Naz ◽  
Saghir Ahmad ◽  
Ayesha Batool
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
High Work ◽  
High Emotional Intelligence

Purpose of the study: The present study focuses to explore the relationship of emotional intelligence with the work-life balance of working women at the university level in Pakistan. The objectives of the study were: i) to determine the level of emotional intelligence and work-life balance of working women of public sector universities in KP; ii) to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and work-life balance of working women of the public sector universities in KP. Methodology: The study was quantitative in nature and the survey method was used to collect data. The population consisted of all working women of public sector universities in KP. The sample of the study consisted of 350 working women randomly selected from 06 universities public sector universities. In this respect, two research instruments were developed one for measuring work-life balance and the second for measuring Emotional Intelligence. Data were collected after seeking consent from the working women. The data were analyzed by using statistical techniques. Main Findings: It was found that the majority of the working women had high emotional intelligence with a high work-life balance. A significant correlation was found between emotional intelligence and the work-life balance of working women. It was concluded that high emotional intelligence leads to a high work-life balance. Applications of this study: Therefore, it is recommended that university administration may develop such programs and policies that may facilitate employees’ work-life balance. Higher authorities may arrange training sessions for stress management which may help employees to reduce their stress and keep balance in their personal and professional life. Novelty/Originality of this study: The readers may come to know about the emotional intelligence and work-life balance of working teachers especially women in higher institutions and how both factors are correlated.

scholarly journals Work Life Balance of Women Employees of it Sector during Remote Working

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Ganesh C. Naga ◽  
Nagaraja. P. ◽  
Sumalatha P.
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Women Employees

In this paper, an endeavor has been made to track down the professional and the personal difficulties and enhancers for work life balance among working women during work from home through a study of 100 ladies working in the IT area in India. The primary difficulties in professional life were discovered to be expanded working hours, travel time from home to work place, and additional tasks engaged by them. Where as in personal life, the primary anxieties were blame from elders for not being taken care of family. Most of the women would incline toward adaptable planning, flexi-time, and strong spouse, family, and companions just as a climate helpful for work at the workplace.

scholarly journals Workplace Issues and Challenges of Women Employees

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-123
Author(s):  
Dr. J. Arthi
Keyword(s):  
Working Women ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Workplace Issues ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Awareness Level

Women employees are facing more challenges in their day-to-day life. Hence, to maintain their work-life balance, they are crossing many hurdles, wherein workplace issues has been one of the major challenges faced by every women employee in the world. The reason being much harassment is occurring against the women employees in all employment sectors. Even though there are more legal remedies and statutory labour welfare measures to protect women in the workplace. The foremost issues of working women globally are career progression, pay parity, harassment, child rearing and work-life balance. Hence, there is a sheer necessity to understand the aforementioned issues. The present chapter intended to analyze the workplace issues of working women as an outcome of a program conducted on legal awareness for students and working women. In furtherance, the researcher has used the data sources from the project sponsored by NCW (National Commission for Women), wherein in both gender were taken as respondents. The study included 148 respondents out of which there are working women and students from both the genders and analysed in two dimensions, one is from the perspective of working women about workplace issues and other from students’ perspective to understand awareness level on workplace issues of women employees. The results showed that working women respondents have strongly agreed that workplace harassments and conflict of work-life balance are stronger issues than other challenges like shiftsystem, long working hours and gender discrimination. Also, the students (both male and female) revealed that awareness level of male students regarding workplace issues is good and opined that conflict in work-life balance and work doing night shift are predominant issues of working women and awareness of female students indicated that sexual harassment and child rearing are the major hurdles in their career progress.

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