International Journal of Human Resource

Management and Research (IJHRMR)

ISSN (P): 2249–6874; ISSN (E): 2249–7986
Vol. 11, Issue 1, Jun 2020, 13-24
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WORK- LIFE BALANCE: A STUDY OF PRIVATE SCHOOL TEACHERS OF

BHIWANI DISTRICT (HARYANA)

MRS.LAXMI DEVI SHARMA & Dr. NISHA

Research Scholar, Faculty of Management and Commerce, Baba Masthnath University, Rohtak (Haryana)124021
Assistant Professor, Baba Masthnath University, Asthal Bohar, Rohtak(Haryana)

ABSTRACT

The present paper highlights some variables that affects the balance between work and life of school
teaching staff in Bhiwani District, Haryana. These variables are associated with the challenges which
effects on the working and family life of 100 school teaching staff working in private school, Bhiwani. The
research additionally highlights the association of the certain individual factors such as age, duration spent,
degree of stress, working overtime along with initiatives taken by the higher authority helpful in attaining
balance of work and personal life of teachers. The research found that one –fourth of the sample of the
teaching staff are not fully satisfied about duration spent in school because this takes away the time to be

Original Article
spent with the family. The study also focused on how much the teaching professionals are satisfied with
maintaining proper balance between work and family life. From the results in the study, it has been
suggested that the school management is required to start up work life balance initiatives to satisfy the
teachers. The study also suggest that the school should lessen the extra workings hours to maintain
qualitative teaching and also more attention should be given on teaching not on the official work given to
the teachers.

KEYWORDS: Work life balance, Stress. Depression, Initiatives & work

Received: Feb 16, 2021; Accepted: Mar 06, 2021; Published: Apr 30, 2021; Paper Id.: IJHRMRJUN20212

INTRODUCTION

Work-life balance refers to the weight age a worker gives to his work and personal life in terms of time, resources,
and efforts. If there is equal allocation of resources, time and efforts on both job and domestic life, it is said that the
employee has a good work –life balance. Which results in feeling better both at job and personal life (greater job
and life satisfaction) the balance between work and life affects employees in favorable ways like reducing
absenteeism and turn over. Now a days we find both men and women working in all the sectors, which is the main
reason for research in work life balance. The female employees have to manage both work and home. These
women have to consider the requirements of both the work and family simultaneously, which many a times leads
to conflict. Work- Family conflict may arise when there is more WIPL and PLIW whatever may be this conflict
leads to work- life imbalance. This imbalance affects employees in a negative way, causing stress to the
employees. Experiencing of stress leads to in decrease of productivity both at work and personal life. Not only the
female employees even the men and single parents are experiencing this work life imbalance. By the advancement
in technology and convenience, companies have come up with the measures for the employees to balance their job

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and private life with the benefits like adjustable working time, telecommuting, and many. However, these benefits are not
only the means but also the organization must create a working culture such that it helps the employees can attain a balance
between their work and personal life and bringing out the policies supporting this initiative, to make employees not to feel
over burdened by non-stop working, affecting their productivity. Results point out that employees alone are not only the
cause for experiencing work-life imbalance but even the employers play a major role in this, both together have to work on
attaining this healthy balance.

The work force with proper balance between work and family life feel their lives are fulfilled both inward and
outward of work (Byrne, 2005), experiencing less disagreement between job and home domain Those who maintain this
balance prove to be more satisfied with their work and life altogether, resulting in minimum degree of stress and
depression. Taking work-life balance initiatives may attract new employees, lessen turnover and absenteeism, and helps the
manpower in voluntarily engaging in “social activities.

In the present global scenario, every organization whether business or non-business is said to be effective if it is
able to produce quality goods at reasonable cost without comprising with profit making and at the same time satisfying its
stake holders. Employees, being the stake holder of an organization today demand more from the employers to enhance
their social life. To enrich their social life employees, demand more time, resources and support from their employers.
Same situation is found in non-manufacturing organizations like schools also. Teachers in Schools continuously perform
work like making lesson plans, conducting tests, checking and evaluating answer sheets, monitoring the students in study
camps. focus on soft and life skills. The main issues of private school teachers are long teaching hours, job insecurity, time
taken in preparing for the class, preparing and evaluating examinations where the teachers take answer sheets home which
takes away their free time with less time for non-work activities, it becomes imperious to explain how important is WLB in
private schools.

Considering this aspect of private school teachers an attempt has been made to study the WLB of private school
teaching staff of Bhiwani District (Haryana).

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Robin Banwens, Jolie Muylaert, Els Clalysse, Mieke Audenaert, Adelien Decramer (2020):

An attempt was made by the researcher to know the relationship between WIA and Work -Life Balance of 288 secondary
school teachers in Flanders (Belgium).Valcour (2007) Work-Life Balance Satisfaction Scale was used to measure the
degree to which the teachers were satisfied with their WLB. Correlation and Regression was applied in the study. The
research concluded that if teachers use DCE after hours it results in reduction in work life balance and also performance
expectancy have a direct effect on teachers WLB. The Teachers who know the benefits of DLE, experience less stress and
pressure thus not effecting their work life balance.

Sonia Delrose Noronha, Dr. P.S. Aithal (2019): A survey was carried out among Government university teachers of
Karnataka to study the challenges faced by women in maintaining work life balance. The sample for the survey was 106
women faculties of MBA department of government universities. The association between demographic variables and
work life balance was studied by Fishers exact Test. The Test revealed that the level of work life balance lies between 9-
45., Low level 9-21, moderate level 22-33, high level 34-45. The study concludes with moderate level of WLB of the
faculties working in government universities with range 30-49. No association was found between parental responsibility,

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family size, age of children, and work life balance of the faculties.

Poonam Kaushal, Jai Singh Paramar (2019): The study explored the relationship between demographic factors like age,
gender, and marital status of police personnel in Himachal Pradesh. The work life balance was assessed by using Hayman
(2005) work life balance scale. Positive relationship existed between age and WIPL and PLIW whereas no relationship
existed between age and WPLE the overall work life balance of the police personnel is influenced by their age. There
existed difference in opinion regarding WIPL among males and females, no difference was seen regarding PLIW and
WPLE among males and females. Work life balance was same for both males and females. Marital status does not
influence work life balance. ANOVA was applied to study the WLB at varied levels of age and the result was that work
life balance different among different age groups. No difference was observed among different age groups regarding Work
Personal Life Enhancement. It was reported that lower aged police personnel are able to maintain work life balance. The
females face more interference of work in their life than males.

Sayeda Mehrunisa (2019) : The aim of the research was to know why faculties feel stress and how it influence their work
life balance in India’s colleges in Northern India covering 208 female faculty members . ANOVA, Correlation and
Regression was employed to analyze the data in the research. The research explored that stress and WLB are positively
correlated. The variables responsible for stress were gender discrimination, tight work schedule, no proper pay, no
development activities for the faculty members. It was also found that stress has a positive impact on WLB of the women
faculty members in higher educational institutions such as deterioration of health, decrease in performance, and monetary
problems in their life, thus it was said that stress impact work life balance.

Chang, Hsieh, Han- Shen Chen (2019): In the study the moderating effect of WLB was examined between organizational
commitment and decision to stay in the Hotel industry. The research found that organizational commitment and intention
to stay are positively correlated means organizational commitment reinforce the intention to stay. To analyze the mediating
effect of WLB on relationship between organizational commitment and decision to stay Hierarchical Regression was used
and the result was that WLB has moderate effect between organizational commitment and intention to stay in the hotel
industry that means work life balance does not affect much on intention to stay.

Vasumathi.A., S. Prithi (2018): had attempted to know the association of demographic profile and work life balance
determinants and the factor responsible for stress and also to study work life balance attributes. The research was
conducted in tannery industry in Tamil Nadu. Multiple Regression was employed to know the influence of demographic
variables on stress. The demographic profile included age, marital status, educational qualification, working experience,
monthly earnings, children and elder dependents and duration required to reach the work place. The demographic variables
which do not predict the occurrence of stress were age, marital status, education, income, dependent children and elder
dependents and duration required to reach whereas experience and dual earner couple were found to be the variable
predicting the occurrence of stress. Good quality of education and experience contributes to more working hours. Work life
balance of married was found better than unmarried respondents, supervisor support was found to be the most important
attribute for work life balance.

Mythili Devi .P., Alban Nishanth Lalu G. F.(2018): The research attempted to study the stress and WLB and influence
on mental well-being of higher secondary school teachers in Tiruvallur district. The intervention program used in the study
was solution focused model and the methods used were guest lecture on time management, stress management, role
playing, and work life balance activities. Cluster sampling method in the research divided the population of 66 teachers

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into 4 clusters. The findings of the study were divided into two parts Findings before intervention and after intervention.
The level of stress decreased after intervention and the respondents felt they get support from their workplace. The WIPL
and PLIW also came down after the intervention. Satisfaction level towards work life balance was found more after the
intervention.

OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH

 To study how private school teachers manage their job and private domain in Bhiwani District.

 To examine the degree of stress of private school teachers at workplace.

 To Suggest the school authority regarding WLB.

RESEARCH METHODOLOY

Research design used in the study is Descriptive research., Which considers present trends, beliefs, view point and
attitudes, public mind, effects or development of trends etc.

Primary data has been collected through questionnaire, by adopting survey method.

Secondary data has been collected through journals, books, magazines, newspapers and articles from internet.

Sample: The teachers of private schools, Bhiwani. Sample size is 100. Questionnaire were distributed to the
teaching staff of primary private school.

ANALYSIS AND RESULTS

Chart 1 Work hours and its workability with personal life.

Source: Primary Data

87% of the school teachers are in favor with the work hours ,3% are not in favor & whereas,10% are kind of satisfied.

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Chart 2. Approachable Management

70% of the private teachers say that their institution’s management is approachable whereas,30%disagree with it.

Chart 3. Balanced Work- Life

84% of the private school teachers have a balanced work life where as 16% don’t have so.

Chart 4. Time spent on personal activities.

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50% of the private school teaching staff spend 4-6 hrs. on personal life, 30% spend more than 6hrs and the least 2-4hrs of
time is spent by 20 %.

Chart 5. Working on holidays or overtime

Maximum school teachers i.e., 57% occasionally work on holidays or overtime,27% work sometimes and minimum is
16%.

Chart 6. Worrying about work in not working hour

53%of the school teachers not always worry about their teaching work apart from their working hours, 33%frequently
worry,13%do it rarely and 1% never worry.

Chart 7. Missing out quality time with family and friends

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77% of the private school teachers not always miss out their family and friends time, 17%frequently and 6% rarely.

Chart 8. Initiatives taken by school towards employee work life balance

83% of the private school teachers told that their school doesn’t take initiatives of employee work life balance where as
17% state that it does provide

Chart 9. Teachers suffering from stress related diseases.

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63%of the teachers suffer from stress related diseases and 37% don’t.

Chart 10. Amount of time spent working.

53% of the teaching professionals are in favor with the working duration, 10% are unhappy and 37% are neutral about
their feeling.

Chart 11. Fatigue or depression due to work.

63% of the teachers not always feel tired and depressed due to work, 30 % rarely feel so and 7%never.

Chart 12. Involvement of teacher’s family members in school reward functions.

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73% of teachers agree that the school involves family members in at reward functions and 27% disagree.

Chart 13. Social gatherings held by the institution.

The sample of the study agreed that the school doesn‟t organize any social gatherings involving families.

Chart 14. Domestic help at home.

77% of the private school teachers say that they are provided with help in accomplishing their domestic work whereas 23%
are not provided with any help.

15. Additional facilities provided by school

All the teachers state that they are provided with health care programs by the institution but not any other facilities.

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OTHER IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS

 84% of the respondents feel that they are able to achieve work-life balance to a great extent

 87% of the teachers are satisfied with the working hours

 Maximum teachers i.e., 57% occasionally work on holidays 77% of the teachers sometimes miss out their family
and friends’ time

 83% of the teachers’ state that their institution doesn’t takes initiatives for employee WLB

 63% of the teachers do not feel always tired and depressed because of work

 73% of the teachers agree with the fact that the school involves family members in at reward functions

 53% of the teaching staff are in favor with the duration of working

 All the state that the institution doesn’t organize any social gatherings involving families.

 70% of the teachers say that their institution’s management is approachable

 All the female teachers state that they are provided with health care programs by the institution but not any other
facilities.

SUGGESTIONS

 The school should come up with certain family-friendly measures such as long maternity leave, crèche facilities,
special leave, transport facility for women school teachers etc.

 Awareness and training camps can be arranged for the family members, spouse, children regarding providing
help at home to the teachers

 Awareness regarding Time management techniques should be provided to the school teachers.

 The institution should initiate in formulating both the individual and organizational level stress reduction
strategies. It may also help in creating sound overall workplace culture for school teachers

CONCLUSIONS

There is no argument to prove that proper WLB is required for stress free and satisfied life. The teachers of today are over
burdened with work and family responsibilities, which makes work-life balance an ongoing task. The findings of the study
tell that in order to minimize the stress of the teachers it’s important to know how to help them in their WLB. The study
can also help the school authority to come up with adjustable work strategies and provide better working culture which will
help in lessening the stress level in school teaching staff to some extent.

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