WORK-LIFE BALANCE: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

The literature review on Work-life Balance has become a heft trepidation of those who intent to value the quality of working life and its relationship to an eminence personal life. Worldwide workers respond quite differently to work settings, which poses challenges for businesses operating in numerous countries that need adjustments to human resource practices to optimize performance levels of employees and reduce turnover expenses at the workplace. Currently the nature of work has changed intensely in response to economic shifts and an increasingly global economy. Balancing successfully between personal or family life with work can be perplexing and it impacts on a person’s satisfaction in their work and personal life’s in organizations. This has been a clearly observed through its growing situation in the wealth of the institutions and awareness of satisfying lives for its workers by supporting the development of each employee and the further development of the companies. Steadily, both fields rely on the approaches employed by both employees and employers. The literature identified its effect on numerous value on work-life conditions i.e., employee performance, employee satisfaction, job satisfaction, employee commitment, workplace factors, organization stress, practices among female employees and behavioral outcomes. This paper provided an overview of various aspects of Work-Life balance through the review of existing literature. The sources referred include various journals, books, articles, doctoral thesis, working papers, reports, magazines, internet sites, newspapers etc. which were reflected as references at the end. Keyword: Work-Life Balance, Employee Performance, Employee Satisfaction, Job Satisfaction, Employee Commitment, Workplace Factors, Organization Stress, Practices among Female Employees and Behavioral Outcomes. CITATION: Otuya, W., & Andeyo, L. M. (2020). Work-life balance: A literature review. The Strategic Journal of Business & Change Management , 7(2), 249 – 258.