scholarly journals Impact of Work Overload and Work Hours on Employees Performance of Selected Manufacturing Industries in Ogun State

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agapito Bazillai
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Overload ◽  
Ogun State ◽  
Work Hour

Work overload has been identified as an indicator of migraine by neurologists, which has a negative effect on their well-being and performance at work. The competitive nature of the job market in developing countries like Nigeria only adds to the deteriorating work-life balance as employees strive for competitive advantage at the expense of their well-being and family life. Today’s worker, at the end of a working day is fully exhausted, due to challenged responsibilities and the cu lture of long working hours. For example, the insistence of 8am to 5pm working hours have been identified as a major cause of increased medical problems such as diabetes, hypertension, psychological and attitude problems, aches and pains among other ailments. The main objective of this study was to determine effect of work overload and work hour on employee’s performance in selected manufacturing industries in Ogun State. Descriptive survey research design was used with sample size of four hundred employees of selected manufacturing companies in Ogun State.Both work overload and work hour has been found to play a huge role in the quality of employees’ family life, such as marital satisfaction, relationship with children and spouses, which in return affects their job commitment. The findings showed that work overload to employees’ performance (F [1,473] = 22.752, P<0.05, R 2 =0.0457 and work hour to employees’ performance (F [1,472] = 51.238, P<0.05, R 2 =0.0473). The study concluded that, work-life- balance idea is connected with real aids for an organization. Therefore, the study recommended that social and psychological life of every employee should be put to check in order for employees to be effective and efficient on their jobs.

scholarly journals Highly Skilled South Asian Migrant Women in Australia: Hidden Economic Assets

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Najia Syed ◽  
Cathy Banwell ◽  
Tehzeeb Zulfiqar
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Work Skills ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Economic Assets

Finding a balance between work and family life is challenging for many women, particularly migrant women living in Australia without family support. This study provides insights into their dilemmas, difficulties and strengths in terms of household responsibilities and employment pressures. Design: Qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted with ten South Asian skilled mothers living in Canberra, Australia. Findings: Participants were positive about contributing to their family’s income and gaining financial independence. However, as skilled migrant women, they struggled to use their work skills due to increased demands of domestic responsibilities. They often negotiated work and family life by seeking low-prospect careers. Conclusion: The socio-cultural factors faced by South Asian migrant women have a significant impact on their work-life balance. Deskilling, increased work pressures and lack of support may negatively impact their career aspirations and well-being. Flexible policies can help mitigate these barriers to help migrant women maintain a work-life balance.

WORK–LIFE BALANCE OF YOUNG PHYSICIANS IN JAPAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Nakayasu
Keyword(s):  
Shift Work ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
National Study ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Style ◽  
Young Physicians

Background: Geographical and specialty maldistribution of physicians are key issues in the Japanese healthcare system. These are strongly related to work–life balance issues that physicians face, including long working hours, burnout, and discontinuation of female physicians’ careers. Objective: To obtain the opinions of young physicians in Japan on policies regarding work–life balance and career building. Method: A cross-national study was conducted using a questionnaire that was sent to physician across Japanese Red Cross Hospitals. Results: Young physicians view work–life balance as important in choosing specialties and work location. In addition to the motivation to gain training experience, they seek adequate rest through shift work, and work efficiency by sharing tasks with other medical professionals, using IT, and improving operation management. Discussion: As an example of work-style reform in progress, we would like to introduce the shift-work system at our institution’s Obstetrics and Gynecology Department. By clarifying the line between work and life, physicians can balance career building and time for self-improvement. Conclusion: For young physicians to continue their careers without burning out and excel in various fields, we must create a system that allows for efficient learning and work–life balance for both mental and physical well-being.

scholarly journals Learning from work-from-home issues during the COVID-19 pandemic: Balance speaks louder than words

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0261969
Author(s):  
Amanda M. Y. Chu ◽  
Thomas W. C. Chan ◽  
Mike K. P. So
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home

During the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, many employees have switched to working from home. Despite the findings of previous research that working from home can improve productivity, the scale, nature, and purpose of those studies are not the same as in the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic. We studied the effects that three stress relievers of the work-from-home environment–company support, supervisor’s trust in the subordinate, and work-life balance–had on employees’ psychological well-being (stress and happiness), which in turn influenced productivity and engagement in non-work-related activities during working hours. In order to collect honest responses on sensitive questions or negative forms of behavior including stress and non-work-related activities, we adopted the randomized response technique in the survey design to minimize response bias. We collected a total of 500 valid responses and analyzed the results with structural equation modelling. We found that among the three stress relievers, work-life balance was the only significant construct that affected psychological well-being. Stress when working from home promoted non-work-related activities during working hours, whereas happiness improved productivity. Interestingly, non-work-related activities had no significant effect on productivity. The research findings provide evidence that management’s maintenance of a healthy work-life balance for colleagues when they are working from home is important for supporting their psychosocial well-being and in turn upholding their work productivity.

scholarly journals Work Life Balance in Relation to Well-Being of Religious and Non-Religious Employees

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
SuboohYusuf ◽  
Dr. Kr. Sajid khan
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Work Family

“Work life balance “is a person’s control over the conditions in their workplace. The concept of work-family (life) balance has emerged from the acknowledgement that an individual’s work-life and personal/family life may exert conflicting demands on each other. A balance between work and life is supposed to exist when there is a proper functioning at work and at home with a minimum of role conflict. “Well-being refers to how people evaluate their lives. According to Diener (1997), these evaluations may be in the form of cognitions or in the form of affect. The cognitive part is an information based appraisal of one’s life that is when a person gives conscious evaluative judgments about one’s satisfaction with life as a whole. The affective part is a hedonic evaluation guided by emotions and feelings such as frequency with which people experience pleasant/unpleasant moods in reaction to their lives..Thus the purpose of the research was to explore the relation between work life balance and well-being among employees. Samples were selected through random sampling. 40 employees of different sectors working in Qatar participated in the research. Work life balance scale developed by Hayman(2005) and well-being scale developed by Nishi Zawa (1996). For statistical analysis Pearson correlation was used. Result showed that correlation between work life balance and well-being among non-religious employees was found to be negative and there was positive relation between work life balance and well-being among religious employees.

scholarly journals Work Life Conflict in MSME Industries

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 889-893
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Working Condition ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Individual Work ◽  
Career Prospect ◽  
Work Life Conflict

Today the work life balance of all corporate industries are very pleasing and if there is no Job fulfilment and flexibility in life, it can create an asperity among the employees. Work-life stability involves balance among qualified employment and individual work, thus it trims down abrasion among official and family life. In this paper attempts to investigate some factors of employee’s policies, working hours, career prospect and counselling programs. These factors can be associated to Job fulfilment or family or both. Certain Statistical analyses are used to determine the work life collision in MSME Industries. The five interrelated variables questions are considered in this study. The inquiries are, Whether the work allocated is as per your inclination and skills? Whether the workers are happy with the approaches of best administration in the organization? Whether corporeal working condition and working hours are acceptable in the organization? Whether the organization has great vocation prospect for its workers? Whether guiding projects for the workers are sorted out by the organization frequently, the above questions are resolve with the help of following objectives to study the work assignments in light of the worker's inclination and skill. To consider the worker’s fulfilment with the strategies of best administration in MSME Industries. To study the physical working condition and working hours in MSME ventures and its activity fulfilment. To study the MSME enterprises great profession prospect for their workers. To ponder result of the consistent advising programs sorted out by the organization for the employees.

scholarly journals Predictors of Work Life Balance in Selected Non-Government Organization in Ethopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ABEBA BEYENE MENGISTU
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Design Data ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Overload ◽  
High Level

This paper aims to investigate factors that predict the work-life balance of employees in selected NGO’s in Ethiopia using quantitative research approach and explanatory research design. Data was collected from a total of 163 managerial and professional employees using a structured questionnaire, and responses were analyzed using SPSS version 20. Results of the descriptive analysis revealed low levels of perceived Work Overload, Family/Life Overload, and Work-Family Balance and moderate level of perceived Work-Life Balance Policies, and high level of perceived Workplace Support. The regression analysis showed that among the identified five predictors of Work-Life Balance, Work Overload, Family/Life Role Overload, Social Support, and Work-Life Balance Policies predicted the dependent variable on Work-Life Balance. Out of the four significant predictors, Work-Life Balance Policies predicted the Work-Life Balance most. To improve the work-life balance of the employees in these selected NGOs, the management should maintaining the currently existing work-life balance policies while introducing need-based family-friendly workplace policies such as flexible working arrangement, leave arrangements, and child care benefits.

Work life balance among female school teachers [k-12] delivering online curriculum in Noida [India] during COVID: Empirical study

2021 ◽  
pp. 089202062199430
Author(s):  
Debyani Mukherjee Rawal
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Turnover Rates ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
K 12

Job satisfaction is a vital factor regarding turnover rates, especially among women. Work life balance today, especially in times of COVID where home and work place have transgressed boundaries is an imperative precursor for the well-being of an individual. A satisfying job well-integrated into life, balances the overall mental and emotional quotient of working women particularly in the current pandemic in which the workplace is posing a new and unlike set of challenges and problems for women. Research suggests that work place problems faced by the Indian women are mostly long working hours, less recognition of work, lack of motivation and stress related issues, but the new normal of working remotely from home now is altogether an unexpected work scenario. With respect to emerging nations, problems of work life balance among women in the education sector are not well researched. Increased women employment has led to a swelling attention from academia and industry on WLB. With greater access to better educational opportunities, increasing number of women are entering the workforce, and shifting from being home-makers to the organized work force, thereby necessitating an urgent need to examine this phenomenon. Carrying on with online classes remotely has become the order of the day, and it is becoming stressful when both school and personal life operate from the same space. The main idea here is to understand challenges during COVID which are being faced by school teachers in Noida delivering content to students from home and their surviving strategies.

scholarly journals Work-Life Balance versus Work-Life Merge: a Comparative and Thematic Analysis of Workplace Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sharkey ◽  
Barbara Caska
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Significant Difference

The aim of this mixed-methods research study was to test the traditional concept of work-life balance, which suggests workers can experience better well-being by being able to psychologically switch on and off. Participants were 133 full-time workers, split into two groups according to where their job was performed strictly at their place of business, or from a combination of workplace and home. Each participant completed quantitative online surveys that measured their perceived stress, life satisfaction and job satisfaction. Results indicated participants who worked from a combination of the workplace and home had significantly greater job and life satisfaction levels than their workplace-based counterparts. However, no significant difference was found between the two groups on perceived stress. Participants also answered qualitative questions about how their job impacted their personal life, how their job might be changed to improve personal time, and what motivated them to work. A strong emergent theme centred around time. Many complained of long working hours, giving them very little time to spend with family, friends or on personal pursuits. For some, stress and worry about their jobs bled into their home life, culminating in moodiness and difficulty in psychologically switching off. Whilst others were happy with the balance between their working and private lives, many wished for fewer and more flexible working hours. Conclusions drawn suggest there is real merit in offering flexible constructs to today’s workers in order to harvest better psychological well-being in the workplace.

scholarly journals Work-Life Balance In Hospitality: Experiences From A Geneva-Based Hotel

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Line Managers ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Human Resource Policy ◽  
Stress Study ◽  
Study Results

This study, carried out on 30 employees in a Geneva-based hotel, argues that employee work-life balance issues are affected by human resource policy.  Questionnaires, containing attitude scales and open-ended questions, revealed that employees remained in their jobs because of work-life programmes.  Variables identified in this study which positively affected employee well-being included increased schedule flexibility and mutually beneficial relationships with line managers.  Negative ones included long working hours, the sacrifice of private life, invasive working hours, decreased social and family life in addition to increased fatigue and stress.  Study results also revealed that work-life balance issues perceived by employees can be mitigated through organisational support and the recognition of informal feedback.

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