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Empirical Analysis of Work Life Balance polIcies and Its Impact on Employee’s Job Satisfaction and Performance: Descriptive Statistical Approach

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The present paper envisages analyzing the relationship between work life balance policies and employee job satisfaction. Specifically, it has been focused here that the work life balance policies lead to attaining equilibrium between professional work and other activities. Under the present study is also examined that the work life balance policies reduce friction between official and domestic life. Related theories of employee’s job satisfaction proposed by previous researchers are reviewed and summarized herein in order to use and correlate these to proposed empirical analysis. The quality of work life policies is increasingly becoming part of the business strategy and the focus is on the potential of these policies to influence employee’s quality of working life and more importantly to help them maintain work-life balance with equal attention on performance, commitment at work and job satisfaction. This study proves to be a milestone for the researchers, policy makers, management professionals, statisticians and students to properly understand the concepts of employee’s job satisfaction, work life balance and their relationship. The present empirical study involves descriptive statistical approach. The target population was two hundred and forty respondents. Statistical primary data was collected using questionnaires, and analyzed using statistical package for management and social sciences. The findings of this study emphasized that each of the work life balance policies on its own is a predictor of job satisfaction. The goodness of fit, R = 0.618 showed a good strength of the relationships between independent variables and the dependent variable. The result explored herein makes the recommendation that managers in banks should improve the work life balance policies offered to employees in order to increase their job satisfaction, to improve staff commitment and productivity.

Published in American Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Volume 4, Issue 2-1)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Scope of Statistical Modeling and Optimization Techniques in Management Decision Making Process

DOI 10.11648/j.ajtas.s.2015040201.15
Page(s) 33-43
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Keywords

Work life balance policies, employee job satisfaction, banking sector, commercial banks, multivariate correlation and regression analysis, sample design

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  • Department of Pure & Applied Mathematics and Statistics, School of Science & Technology, The University of Fiji, Lautoka, Fiji

  • Department of Operations Research, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

  • Department of Soils Sciences, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

  • Department of Agricultural Extension, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, India

  • Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Lucknow Inst. of Technology, U.P. Technical University, Lucknow, India

  • Group Centre, Central Reserve Police Force, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India, Guwahati, Assam, India

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