WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Analysing the factors beneath the belief

Vijayalaxmi
Lecturer
New Horizon Leadership Institute
An Introduction
Not home back by five

Offices not defined by walls

Technology the villain or the hero?

Killing Competition

Increasing levels of stress

 At the cross roads

The choice is hard

work or life/home?
Employers Concern
Mounting costs

Concern for productivity

The growing talent hunt

Growing concern towards employees

Literature review
‘Society for Human Resource Management
(2002), reported that the following were
what employees reported high on
70% said family is the most important
priority.
70% do not think there is a healthy
balance between work and life
46% feel overworked
(University of Colorado, W. Cascio and E.
Young) Contd..
In a survey Women solicitors work-life balance
One in two women solicitors believed that
they worked too many hours a week
progress in their careers lawyers were
expected to work long hours.
Forty six per cent of respondents believed
that lawyers in their organisations
constantly had to put their jobs ahead of
their families or personal lives
one third were dissatisfied with their
opportunities to work flexibly.
Work-related stress : scientific
evidence A Study – Jean Pierre Brun
The manager-subordinate relationship is
the most commonly reported cause of stress
Manager behaviour can have a significant
impact on health outcomes of subordinates
Abusive supervision is associated with an
increase in absenteeism
High support at work decreases the
intentions to quit job
Why study?
Factors contributing to the tightrope are

many
Which among them are prominent?

Identifying the focus areas

Analyse the difference-indifference of the

factors on the groups.

Methodology
Primary research

Questionnaire method

Convenient random sampling

Statistics - Sample Profile
Out of the total 53 respondents the
majority were males by 62%.
85% of the population was under 30years of
age, 15% was above 30years.
42% of the population were married.
69% of the partners were employed and
majority of them being were women with
partner employed.
Contd…..
15% of the population worked for 7-8 hours
a day, 45% for 8-9hrs, 34 % of the
population worked for 9-10hrs and 6%
works for over 11 hrs a day.
64% worked for 1-4hrs avg from home, 26%
for more than 5hrs and rest did not.
96% of the respondents worried about work
after work hours.
36% respondents said their company had
WLB policy and the rest 32% were not aware
and another 32% said no.
Analysis Tool- Discriminant Analysis

Determine which of the given variables

significantly discriminate among the two
groups 1- those who feel are able to achieve
work-life balance and 2- those who feel have
not achieved work-life balance in their lives.
Analysis
WLB Joint responsibility

Money Compensates 53% No, 24% Yes, 23%

Can’t say
Communicating with managers
Correlation- Moderate between
Technology hinders WLB and negative
attitude of the family members hinders
WLB.
Stress and negative attitude of the family
members
Negative attitude of peers and negative
attitude of family members.
Significance level
Ho: There is no effect of the given
predictors on the achievement of work-life
balance.
H1: There is an effect of the given
predictors on the achievement of work-life
balance.
P < .035 sig
Reject Ho
Most Important Discriminating Factors
Spending more time at work than one likes to

do.
Feeling of haven given up activities.

Number of working days.

Long working hours

Worrying about work.

Towards the end
Technology to enhance work-life not to

estrange from life.

WLB Joint responsibility

Conscious effort

Not just winning but conquering.

 "What is happiness except the
simple harmony between a man and
the life he leads?”
Albert Camus

Thank You
Any ? s please