Work-Life Balance of Women Employee

 

Figure 1

Personal life and work life are often considered to be the two sides of the same coin.

Work-life balance (WLB) is about feeling comfortable with both work and personal commitments.

WLB = Healthy life + Satisfactory lives both Professionally and Personally 

There are three essential components in WLB namely paid work, unpaid work and personal time.

Women are mostly into full time services and are working 8 hours per day and 5 days in a week minimum and are confronted by increasing workload everyday. So, most of them carry work and responsibilities to home but balancing between these two complex situations in the present day fast life requires talent, tact, skill and caution. Women have to cope up with high work targets, office commitments, tight meeting schedules and the duties and responsibilities of life and home. Employers should concentrate on framing various policies and schemes to facilitate Work life balance to encourage and attract women employees. (SayantiGhosh, 2010).

Work Life balance is not something that just happens. It involves the efforts of a number of partners: the employee, the organization for which the employee works, the family with whom the employee lives and the society in which all are embedded. It involves mutual understanding and respect between all of these players. (N.Gayathri & Dr.P.Karthikeyan, August 2013)

Work Life Balance means the competence to schedule the hours of an individual Professional and Personal life so as to lead a healthy and peaceful life. It emphasize the values, attitudes and beliefs of women regarding their age to work in organizing and balancing their work and personal life. (K.Santhana Lakshmi &S.SujathaGopinath, March 2013). 

WLB consists of five aspects of one’s life at any given time namely, work, family, friends, health and safe. Some factors are key and lead to disruption in WLB such as increased level of stress, competition and insecurity in the work place. In the past decade changes in the work place and employee demographic were the increased concerns for the gap between employee work and non-work lives. Huge impact made on employee’s personal time by mandatory overtime, shift work, on-call duties and week end / holiday coverage imposed by the employer (Agha, et al., 2017).

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The following variables influencing the experience of WLB were identified while reviewing the various literatures.

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• Work Family Conflict and Family Work Conflict

• Women in various roles

• Career Advancement

• Work Stress

• Child care

Importance of Work Life Balance

Everyone requires time to unwind and re-energize. It improves their ability to improve their level of performance. As a result, from a management standpoint, it is critical to encourage employees to take time off work without overworking them. Creating a culture that encourages people to participate in things that they enjoy will make them better colleagues, friends, and family members. When the employee's work time is up, he or she must leave the office. This is difficult to achieve since individuals place demands on people's time. People must learn to say "NO" and accept only the most critical tasks.

With Work-life balance employees are able to take time to enjoy the life they have work so hard to create. They have time for family and friends too. Without creating a WLB person they take their stress out in their loved once. Prolonged Stress resulted employees’ physical disorders and illnesses like, heart decease, diabetes and are associated with health risks such as increased smoking and alcohol consumption, weight gain and depression (Meenakshi , et al., 2013). 

Steps to a better Work-life Balance

1. Effective and efficient time management.

2. Spend some time thinking about what is most important, and create a list of top         priorities for home and work.

3. Schedule the day, plan the work assigned for the day and accomplish the target.

4.  Leave work at the work place and don’t bring the work to home and viz versa .

5.  Learn to say No to self and others as an when required.

Conclusion

Every woman should choose a goal and flourish in both her work and her family in order to accomplish WLB.

Planning, organizing, and setting limits are some of the tactics and abilities that can be utilized at home and at work to achieve a rewarding and gratifying well-balanced existence, both professionally and personally. 

To meet the demands of the family, female employees should provide both physical and financial care. Work on achieving corporate goals as well as personal growth in order to meet career requirements. In order to address the difficulties of women's work-life balance in today's corporate environment, organizations must implement human resource strategies and policies. 

REFERENCES

Agha, K., Azmi , F. T. & Irfan , A., 2017. Work-Life Balance and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical study Focusing on Higher Education Teachers in Oman. International Journal of Social Science and Humanity , 7(3), p. 164.[Accessed on April 27, 2022]

J. Sudha et. al./ International Journal of Management Research & Review available at http://www.ijmrr.com/ [Accessed on April 27, 2022]