Work Life Balance and Normative Commitments of Employees in the Selected Deposit Money Banks in Ogun State, Nigeria (Published)
This study examines the effect of work life balance on normative commitments of employees in the selected deposit money banks in Ogun State, Nigeria. The major problem discovered was the poorly developed work cultures in the banks do not support work life balance practices. The specific objective was to determine the extent to which leave policy affects normative commitment of employees which was also in agreement with the research question and hypothesis. The research work adopted survey research design, the target population was 250 employees and sample size was 154 using Taro Yamane’s formula. One hundred and fifty four (154) copies of questionnaire were distributed and completely filled and returned. A descriptive and inferential statistics were used in analyzing the data collected. For reliability of the instrument, Cronbach Alpha was used and the values were 0.74 and 0.80.The instrument was also validated. The results revealed that leave policy had significant effect on normative commitment (β = 0.170, t=2.318, p<0.05). The study concluded that leave policy is a very important phenomenon in increasing employee’s commitment. The study recommended that managers of Nigerian deposit money banks should prioritize leave policy incentives that will maximize employee’s normative commitment.
Keywords: Leave Policy, Normative Commitment, Work Life Balance
Work Life Balance: A practice or Myth in Pakistan – A quantitative analysis of the factors affecting the WLB of employees of Pakistan International Airline Corporation (Review Completed - Accepted)
Today, the work life balance is a common issue at every workplace. The work life balance creates balance between the work and life includes career and the life style. It is the state of equilibrium where any person is able to get satisfies with personal and professional life. Balancing time with parents, spouse, children, friends, relatives, colleagues, supervisors and subordinates is the biggest challenge to be achieved. The empirical study gives the idea of work life balance performed in past. Work life balance has become a challenge throughout the world. The study will identify the assessment of employees about their organization from the work life balance prospective and how it is practiced at their workplace. This will also measure the level of job satisfaction of employees of the PIA in relation to their socio-economic factors. From previous studies conducted on this topic it is observed that it common how employees the challenges of how to balance their work life and personal life, despite the generally positive desire related to work life balance. Without balance in working life and personal life, it is very difficult to maintain working efficiency and control the outcomes of personal and professional life and thus in order to be satisfied, an individual must create a balance between the two.
The research aims at understanding how work life balance positively impacts the personal and professional efficiency of the employees. The objective of this research is to identify the demographic profile of employees, who are working in Airline industry, determine the factors affects work-life balance on the employees of Airline industry. A research study is conducted on the employees of the largest organization of Pakistan, namely PIAC.
Keywords: Personal Commitments, Work Life Balance, Work Place Flexibility