Assessing The Relationship Between Work-Life Balance, Job Satisfaction, And Employee Engagement in Academia
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work-life balance, job satisfaction, employee engagement, private universities, academicsAbstract
This paper discussed how the work-life balance affects the result of employees (job satisfaction and employee engagement) in the organisational circumstances. It assumed the descriptive and correlational research design that involved the adoption of cross-sectional data collection to establish the association that exists between the perception of work-life balance and psychological states and work behaviour among employees. The research was conducted in regard to purposive sampling, in which the academic staff of different privated universities were approached keeping in mind having the experience of managing work-life dynamics. The measurement of work-life balance as an independent variable and the job satisfaction and employee engagement as dependent variables were the validated survey instruments that were used in collecting the data along with the demographic data that would be analysed comprehensively. They used such statistical tools as Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to quantify the immediate effect of work-life balance on job satisfaction and employee engagement and the severity of such relationships. The research questions that guided this research were (1) to explore the effect of the work-life balance on job satisfaction among employees and (2) to explore the effect of work-life balance on employee engagement at organisations. This approach enabled a fine conceptualization of psychosocial forces that influence employee welfare and performance that are empirically evidence-based that are used to direct organisational practises that are conducive to sustainable employee productivity and satisfaction.
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