Cox’s Bazar International University

Assignment On:
“Better work life Balance leads to effective organization Performance”

Submitted By:

Name: Md. Imrul Khan

Id: 200112000142

Batch: 11th (RMBA)

Submitted To:

Farha Siddique

Lecturer

Faculty of Business Administration

Cox’s Bazar International University

Submission Date: 25.04.2020

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 Summary:- 01
Employees with work life balance feel their lives are fulfilled both inside and outside of work, and
they experience minimal conflict between work and non-work roles and life in general and lower levels of
stress in general. Historically, work life balance issues have been considered personal issues and employees
have just responded to their employees needs by providing additional benefits such as onsite child care
service and paid maternity leave in the workplace. However, with environmental shifts and value
changes of employees, employee’s desire for work life balance has increased and employees have begun
to offer more active support of their employees work life balance. Thus, organization efforts for ensuring
employees work life balance are needed and valued more than ever.

Competing and multi-face demands between work and home responsibilities have assumed increased relevance
for employees in recent years, due to large number of demographic and workplace changes such as
greater number of women in the workforce, dual – career couples, transformation in family structures – a rise
in number of single parents, a growing reluctance to accept the longer hours culture and technological
advances. In response to these changes and conflict they generate multiple roles that individual’s occupy,
organization are increasingly pressured to design various kinds of practices, intended to facilitate
employees efforts to fulfill both their employment related and their personal commitments.

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 Summary:- 02
Work life balance is described as people who control and manage see-saw of both life and career with
achievement and satisfaction. It is the term used to describe those practices at workplace that acknowledge and
aim to support the needs of employees in achieving a balance between demands of their family and work life.
Work life balance means adjusting the pattern of work so that the employee can benefit from a better fit
between their work and areas of their personal life and in long run hope to achieve sustainable development and
profitability.

Finding an equal balance between work and life is the biggest challenge women face today. According to a poll
of 500 Canadian female managers and executives, the majority of women today agreed that balancing work and
home life is difficult for females in leadership roles. Work domain and family domain has been identified as
causes of work-life conflict.

Greenhaus and Beutell has defined as inter-role conflict in which pressure from the work domain and family
domain are mutually mismatched that is participation in one role made difficult for women employee to perform
the responsibility of another role and they have also claimed that work- life conflict increases when people have
to perform multiple roles, which often lead to overloads and interferences. Hence, professional women often
experience a role overload due to high energy and time requirements and the commitment to family and work. It
was found that long working hour, work overload, overtime, unsupportive supervisor as work issues interfered
family life and on the other hand child care, elder care, unsupportive family member was found as family issue
which interfered work life. Thus, both lives have been affected with each other.

A research study was done on Chinese women employee in administrative roles at Auckland University
of Technology, New Zealand explored the work life balance experiences of Chinese women in
administrative roles. Its aim was to contribute to the body of knowledge on work life balance issues and to
investigate Chinese women’s coping strategies for integrating work and non- work lives. It was found that
work-life balance policies offered by the university helped women employees to address their work-life balance
issues. It was further observed that varieties of coping strategies such as support from family member, time
management, building clear boundaries, changing mindsets etc. were actively adopted by Chinese women as
mechanism to cope with tension arising from competing demand.

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 Summary:-03
Work life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which
will enable employees to have balance between work and family responsibilities and thus strengthen
employee’s loyalty and productivity. Work-life balance has become an important concept for both employers
and employees of most organizations all over the world. The employees are not willing to work in such
organization where the prevailing culture is not supportive and many even quit the job; retention
happens to be critical then. Off late it is the realization of most of the companies that if the work life
conflicts of employees can be taken care of in an appropriate way then it can help in the retention of the
talent. Work-life balance primarily deals with employees’ ability to properly prioritize between their work and
family life. Where there is appropriate balance between work and personal life, employees give their
best shots at work, because their families are contented. Finding a suitable balance between work and
family life is a big challenge. Where there are happy homes and pleasant work places, there is conflict free
work environment, employees work with zeal .Thus demand for work-life balance practices have made it
compulsory for organizations to look outside human resource interventions. Schemes such as flexible
working hours, alternative work plans, and compressed working hours, leave plans, family care
responsibilities, employee assistance programs have become an important part of organization benefit
programs and reward packages especially in developed economies.

Therefore employers should know the benefits of implementing Work-life balance practices not only for
employees but also for their families, organization and society. Work-Life balance practices are
changes that organization made in their programs, policies and organizational culture that are designed to
reduce work-life conflict and enable employees to be more effective at work and in other roles.

There are wide varieties of practices currently being used to help employees to achieve work life balance.
It is important to note that some work life balance programs help employees to handle stress or helps to
reduce absolutely stress level by rebalancing life. Increasing competition in today’s time and multi faced
demands between work and home responsibilities cause tremendous stress on employees. Changes in
social and demographic variables like increase in nuclear families, greater numbers of women in the
workforce, dual-career couples, rise in the number of single parents, long working hours and
technological advancements bring toll on the health of employees. In response to these changes work life
conflict occur among the multiple roles that individuals play in everyday life. Organizations are increasingly
pressured to design various kinds of Work-Life Balance Practices, intended to facilitate employees’ efforts
to fulfill both their employment related and their personal commitments. The way of how work-life balance
can be achieved and enhanced is an important is- sue in the field of human resource management and
has received significant attention from employers, workers, government, academic researchers, and the
popular media.

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 Summary:-04
In the current competitive business world, organizations paying a great attention on improve the organizational
sustainability to gain the competitive advantage. Fundamentally, sustainability deals with three types of
performance dimensions such as economic, social and environmental performance which are necessary for
environment as well as organizations.

In an organizational context, employees are viewed as the significant actors in determining the sustainability
of the organization. Hence, organizations increasingly required to focus on human resource management to
enhance the organizational sustainability. Because, achieving organizational sustainability become unrealistic
without employee participation and commitment.

Hence, recent days, organizations continuously focus on implementing the several high performance HR
practices and strategies to improve the employee job performance such as training, performance appraisal,
compensation, career development, team working and etc. Among the HRM practices, improving work-life
balance considered as the one of the major high performance HRM practices which highly contribute to
enhance the employee performance. According to Cieri et al. work-life balance is the maintenance of a balance
between responsibilities at work and at home.

In this context, several researchers argued that, improving work-life balance of employee, highly contributes to
improve the employees‟ satisfaction, commitment and engagement. Further, improving work-life balance also
contributes to reduce the absenteeism and turnover of employees. Work-life balance is about creating and
maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which will enable employees to have balance between
work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen employee loyalty and productivity. Recent days,
employees seriously concern about their work-life balance before accept the job offer beyond the salary and
other fringe benefits. This becomes increasingly difficult as many qualified candidates may be in dual-career
families and need to consider their spouse or partner’s career in making their own career decisions. Further,
employees do not show interest in working in outside area beyond their home town in order eliminate the work-
life conflict.

Nowadays, many organizations have recognized the importance of developing a culture that supports
employees‟ attempts to balance their work and family responsibilities. Organizations strive to adopt work -life
balance practices such as flexi time, teleworking and etc. to improve the employee performance. Further,
technology development also supports to change the nature of work and provided opportunities to work from
multiple locations, including the home. Work-life is the practice of providing initiatives designed to create a
more flexible, supportive work environment, enabling employees to focus on work tasks while at work. Hence,
based on the above argument it is possible to improve the employee job performance of employees through
enhance their work-life balance.

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In this scenario, many researchers found out that there are interactions between family life and work life and
have conducted number of researches on work-family balance in the recent past. However, there is only little
research that has been focused on the relationship between work-life balance and job performance. But there is
a gap in the empirical knowledge in relationship between work-life balance and job performance of bank
employees in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lankan context, banking industry is the one of the key contributors to enhance
economic activities of the country.

This article is structured as follows. The next section presents the review of the relevant literature about work-
life balance, and employee job performance and proposes the hypotheses; the third section provides the
methodology of this study. Lastly, we present the findings and discussion of the study and finally, it ends up
with the conclusion.

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