Work Life Balance of Working Parents: A study of IT Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saloni Pahuja
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Impact

Managing the competing demands of work, family and social life is an issue that affects almost every organization. Work life balance is a challenging issue for IT professionals whether male or female as increasing working hours and monitoring the hours worked are far more rigorous than ever before. This paper explores the gender wise perception of work life balance among working parents of I.T. Industry and also examines the impact of work life balance on working parents’ personal and professional life. The Data was thus collected from 200 working parents of IT industry through questionnaire by adopting random sampling technique. The statistical techniques used were ttest, Correlation and Regression Analysis. Findings depicted no significance differences in the perception of male and female towards work life balance. It also revealed high degree of positive correlation of 0.909 and 0.742 between work life balance and working parent’s personal and professional life respectively. And high impact of work life balance on working parent’s personal and professional life.

scholarly journals Flexible Work Arrangements and Their Impact on the Employee Performance of Egyptian Private University Employees: (A Case Study on the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport)

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Eshak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Flexible Work Arrangements ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
The Impact

This study aimed to analyse the impact of flexible work arrangements on the employee performance of employees in private Egyptian universities in Alexandria, mediated by work-life balance (applied to the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport). institutions to retain talented people, raise the efficiency of employee performance, and thus raise the efficiency of institutional performance and competitive capabilities of organizations. The researcher used the descriptive analytical method and the questionnaire as a tool for data collection, to measure the impact of flexible work arrangements (focusing on reducing working hours, benefits provided to employees, work policies towards parenting) on the work-life balance, and the extent of the impact of all this on raising the efficiency of employees' employee performance. A stratified random sample of 423 employees was used, and the data collected was analysed using SPSS and AMOS statistical software. The findings revealed a positive relationship between flexible work arrangements (reduced working hours, benefits provided to employees, and work policies toward parenting) and employee performance, as well as a positive relationship between flexible work arrangements and work-life balance, as well as a positive relationship between work-life balance and employee performance, and the researcher recommends implementing such policies.The recommendations also include the need to review current labour laws before legislators, and update them in line with contemporary technological development and the requirement to achieve a balance between the requirements of life and work. This study also recommends the adoption of reducing working hours as one of the flexible work policies offered by organisations to employees. The study concludes that flexible work arrangements and programmes are in fact a competitive tool that organisations can use to increase loyalty, improve performance, achieve commitment and job satisfaction, which enhances the organization's productivity.

scholarly journals Influence of Work Life Balance (WLB) on Organisational Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S3) ◽  
pp. 380-382
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Chennai City ◽  
The Impact

This empirical study was aimed to explore the impact of work life balance factors on perception towards organisational performance of IT/ITES employees residing in Chennai city. This study was adopted empirical and exploratory research design to gather primary information and perception of IT/ITES employees with the help of structured questionnaire and survey method. The total sample of two hundred was finalized for the present study by adopting non-probability convenience sampling technique. The empirical evidences prove that family support, working environment, organisational climate and organisational commitment have significant and positive influence on perception towards organisational performance of IT/ITES Employees.

scholarly journals Work Life Balance among Women Police in Salem City, Tamil Nadu

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S2) ◽  
pp. 793-797
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Women Police ◽  
The Impact

A main societal norm is work. At times it may be challenging and it tries to prioritize over your welfare. The impact that work life balance has on many social harms has been increasing nowadays, some are reflected in certain forms like tardiness, lessening fertility rates, aged populations and declining supply of quality labour. Certainly, a work culture that demands round the clock, i.e. 24/7 availability becomes a very big victimization to the above said social issues. It is known that Police personnel’s service and its effects on the family is a complex phenomenon. The function of women police is vague and workplace pressure is viewed as an unsuccessful factor, but a predictable part of police work. Police stress is influenced by a various workplace troubles like ethnic and gender partiality and lack of authority, work-load activities. Issues like family size, children’s age, and uncertain working hours has caused dissatisfaction and are more expected to wield negative impacts in their family and in work, that has led to low level of satisfaction, and greater family-work conflict. This research study is an attempt to spot out the effects of work-life balance and to explore the main factors which cause work-family challenges among different categories of women personnel in police department. By using convenient sampling technique, a sample of 50 respondents was collected. Structured questionnaire were used to collect primary data from the Police women. The secondary data was collected from various existing sources like website and reports. For statistical analysis, researcher used SPSS and Statistical tools like (i.e.) percentage analysis, ANOVA, Chi-square. The inferences of this study reveal that the age of respondents and their family factors have significant effects in ensuring work-life balance. Hence, the results suggest that supportive working conditions, employee wellness programme, and timely promotion and transfer policies can ensure work – life balance among the respondents.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Higher Education: The Relationship between Work-Life Balance and XR E-Learning Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniş ◽  
Radu Bucea-Manea-Țoniş ◽  
Violeta Elena Simion ◽  
Dragan Ilic ◽  
Cezar Braicu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, collaborative learning is proving to offer solutions to new inclusivity research challenges, and most importantly, can help ensure sustainable education. Collaborative learning can strengthen positive attitudes towards learning, improve performance in academic results, and enhance self-esteem, by promoting interaction and mutual support among young people. Extended reality (XR), associated with collaborative learning, offers a further advantage by facilitating deep comprehensive learning. An online survey was conducted to investigate respondents’ views on the impact and influence of virtual technologies on work, study, and social life. Respondents (n = 1032) were recruited from Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, from five public and private universities. The study reveals students’ perceptions of e-learning and XR immersion. The data were analyzed by using a combination of descriptive techniques from PSPP (GNU open source SPSS—Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA, USA), and by designing a regression model to evaluate the work-life balance. This regression model shows that the work-life balance is positively influenced by the inclusion of XR facilities in the e-learning process, along with an increased level of culture and living standard. The higher living standard of a student is associated with higher digital competence and more financial resources available to invest in technology.

scholarly journals Work-Life -Balance in Qatar: Implementing Tows Analysis as a Variant of the Classic Strategic Tool, SWOT

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-48
Author(s):  
Rima Charbaji El-Kassem
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Gap Analysis ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Employer Benefits

Purpose The overall goal of this paper is to explore via Gap and TOWS analysis if organizations are offering innovative benefits from the perspective of married employees that make being a working dad or mom easier in Qatar. Design/methodology/approach A large convenient sample of 824 working Qataris were surveyed, using a 15-item instrument based on previous research. The researchers used factor analysis to ascertain construct validity, based on two suitability tests: First, the Kaisers-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measure of sampling adequacy generated a score of 0.807, well above the recommended level of 0.50. Second, the Bartless test of sphericity result was significant (Chi Square = 2079.671, P= 0.00), indicating that there are adequate inter-correlations between the items which allow the use of factor analysis. Findings Findings of the gap analysis validate the trust – building model between leaders and followers from the employee’s perspective. The responses identified in this study enhance the trust in leaders who behave ethically, treat employees fairly, and promote work-life balance. This is an indication that Qatar’s National Vision 2030 introduced by Qatar government is transforming organizations’ values and attitudes in Qatar so that they perform beyond expectations. Additionally, findings of TWOS analysis identified four employer benefits items that are considered opportunities and eight employer benefits items that are identified as threats for the organizations in Qatar as a whole. Also, findings of path analysis confirm that the impact of “gap in perceived supervisor support” on “gap in perceived development of a caring organization” is strengthened via the intervening of “gap in perceived child-friendly working hours” and “gap in perceived parental leave”. Originality Qatar’s National Vision 2030 has set new future trends that demand changes in organizational culture and the empirical findings of this article should help decision and policy makers in Qatar to determine where change is possible and to focus on priorities as well as possibilities.

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 Work-Life Balance and Employee Performance: A Study of Selected Deposit Money Banks in Lagos State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1787-1795
Author(s):  
Akpa Victoria O. ◽  
Egbuta Olive U. ◽  
Akinlabi Babatunde H. ◽  
Magaji Nanle
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Lagos State

Work-life balance is one of the prevailing issues in many organizations. Inability of workers to balance work and family could lead to increased rates of absenteeism, stress, employee turnover, job dissatisfaction and poor work performance. It is therefore essential for employees to maintain stability between work and their private lives. This research examined the effect of work-life balance on employee performance of selected deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted. The target population was 54,028 employees, which consisted of all employees of the six selected Deposit Money Banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. A sample size comprising 520 employees were selected using random sampling technique. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and simple regression analysis. The findings revealed that job stress significantly affects quality of work of employees (F= 33.500, p< 0.05); and long working hours significantly affects motivation of employees in the selected deposit money banks in Lagos State (F= 8.716, p< 0.05). However, the study reveals that role overload has no significant effect on job satisfaction of employees in selected deposit money banks in Lagos State (F= 0.011, p> 0.05). This study concludes that work-life balance has significant effect on employee performance in the selected deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria.

An impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research activities and work-life balance for geoscientists in Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rie Hori, S. ◽  
Natsue Abe ◽  
Chiaki Oguchi, T. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Free Text ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Academic Activities ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Impact

&lt;p&gt;The rapid spread out of the COVID-19 continuous to have a great impact on not only social life but also academic and educational activities. The geoscience fields in Japan are no exception. The committee for Diversity Management and Talent Pool, Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) launched an urgent survey between 28 June and 9 July, 2020 by. The goal of the survey was quantifying the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research activities and work-life balance for geoscientists in Japan. The questionnaire was published two languages: Japanese and English. Although the questionnaire system was opened for a short period of time (12 days), over 400 answers were obtained, of which 351 in Japanese and 65 in English. The results revealed that activities of female geoscientists have been damaged by increasing burden of housework and childcare during confinement period by a state of coronavirus emergency, more than male. We present here some highlights of these results of COVID-19 survey by JpGU.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the free text of the responses, there were specific and earnest appeals regarding the support necessary and expected. The support requests were targeted to various entities, namely JpGU, workplaces, schools, etc. The most common requests made to JpGU were to provide online educational materials and online lecture know-how, and to introduce virtual options to future conferences. Survey responders with childcare responsibilities pointed out the difficulties to attend conferences from home.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In conclusion, we need to reevaluate our consideration for the diverse members, possessing various background and impairments, who are easily left behind in the rapid changes, in academic activities due to COVID-19.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals Effect of Work Conflict on Employees Job Satisfaction: The Case of College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 313
Author(s):  
Moses Segbenya ◽  
Fred Peniana ◽  
Ebenezer Aggrey
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Life Balance

The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of work life balance on employees’ job satisfaction at College of Distance Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana-Africa. The study adopted the quantitative research approach specifically a correlational design. From populations of 242, a sample of 140 teaching and non teaching staff of the College was drawn across three spectrums of staff using simple random sampling technique. Instrument for data collection was questionnaire which had items measured on a scale of 1 to 4 with 1 representing strongly disagreement while 4 represented strong agreement. It was found that there was high level of conflict between work schedules and other social demands (low rating for work life balance) among staff of the College. Additionally, the level of job satisfaction among CoDE staff was low. It was also found that that there was a negative but moderate and significant relationship between work life conflict and job satisfaction among staff of CoDE. It was therefore recommended that management of CoDE should: introduce leave schedule or a day off for staff in order to have sufficient time to attend to their personal, marital and social life and rest; introduce job rotation to ensure job satisfaction and work life balance and also introduce inter-unit assignment and recreational activities for staff on public holidays.

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