In the contemporary business world, employee performance is a fundamental determinant in the attainment of organizational goals and objectives. For this reason, organizations come up with various ways of motivating their workforce so as to ensure there is a high employee performance. Work life balance is a largely significant observable fact that is of considerable concern to different employees in an organization. In delineation, work life balance is expediting and fast-tracking between one's work, which encompasses career and aspiration and one's lifestyle, which encompasses health, leisure and family. This goes beyond emphasizing on the work role and personal life of individuals. It also influences the social, mental, financial and psychological welfare of the individual (Obiageli et al., 2015). This essay will assess the statement as to whether work life balance has a positive outcome for the organization and also for the employees.
Compensation is associated with facilitating factors of work life balance, which result in employee satisfaction. Employee benefits are significantly correlated to work life balance as more appealing employee benefits programs give rise to employee satisfaction. Personnel have a greater level of satisfaction with respect to their work and family when they revel in the benefits of work life balance programs being offered by the organization. In addition, Arif and Farroqi (2014) point out that work life balance have dissimilar impacts on both male and female employees. On one hand, male personnel attain greater job satisfaction with all the three measures for instance job, work life balance program and establishment. On the other hand, female employees have a significant correlation solely with employer satisfaction.
Work life balance has a more significant impact for employees that have greater compensation in comparison to those that have lower compensation. Organizations may emphasis and prioritize on product productivity at all times and this leads to increased stress for employees. This increased level of stress influences on both their personal life and work life. The positive outcome of work life balance is that it provides a balanced association between personal and work life. Research studies indicate that there is a direct association between job satisfaction and productivity. Work life balance has a greater influence on achieving employee job satisfaction in comparison to financial rewards and benefits (Ueda 2012; Arif and Farooqi, 2014).
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Annotated BibliographyAn, S. H. (2019). Employee voluntary and involuntary turnover and organizationalperformance: Revisiting the hypothesis from classical public administration.�International Public Management Journal,�22(3), 444-469.The author points out that employee turnover has been a topic of interest for scholars across various disciplines for many years. The prevailing hypothesis has been that voluntary turnover has a negative impact on organizational performance, while involuntary turnover has a positive impact. However, recent research has called
Wood indicates that "everyone has different motivations and aspirations that they wish to achieve in their life. Work-life balance is about adjustments that can be made to working patterns to enable people to combine work with the other facets of their life. Bratton and Gold (2003: 105) de-ne work-life balance as, 'the relationship between the institutional and cultural times and spaces of work and non-work in societies where income
Employee Satisfaction And Productivity employee satisfaction and productivity ASTRACT Employee satisfaction directly links to organizational excellence and/or productivity. Maybe… Maybe not… Researchers regularly debate exactly what components contributing to employee satisfaction and the company's and/or organization's productivity. Similarly, employers and employees do not typically agree on the reason/s an employee stays committed to a company or what factors contribute to an employee's satisfaction with the company. During the mixed-method case study, the researcher focuses
Business Strategy Role of Work/Life Programs in Business Strategy Strategic Analysis Strategic Implementation Human Resources Social Costs and Benefits Work/Life Programs Dependent Benefits Working Conditions Leaves Human Resources Policies Role in Business Strategy Significance of Work-Life Programs for Employees and Organizations The business strategy is influenced through multiple channels including human resources. The developments of innovative practices in offering employee benefits and maintaining a healthy organizational culture is notable technique. The management of organization takes advantage of high performing employees by offering work-life