First Reveiw
First Reveiw
First Reveiw
employers to improve their social life. They want more time, resources, and support from their
employers to enrich their life particularly other than at their work spot. In the process of attaining
preset targets, work schedules creates more burden, stress and strain to the employees to
imbalance their work and family life and even creates fear and frustration. Work Life-Balance
assumes greatest significance when the demands of ones work and the life aspects seem equally
critical at the same point in time. But in a case, when either of these can be deprioritized (at least
for some period) finding the balance is not the real challenge. For example, take the initial years
of ones work life. In most cases this is really in the 20s when ones family commitments are not
so pressing and one can afford to place work in overdrive if one chooses to. However, many
employees find this is a challenge after marriage or more so the birth of a child. Both demands
seem to be fair in their 16 perspective and hence its a challenge to balance at any time. A zeroone solution (either work or home) though seemingly the simplest may not be the best and this is
where the need for life-balance comes in. Both Public and Private Sector undertakings generally
taking care of their employees by providing Work life provisions like promotions, rewards,
amenities, creating healthy work environment, monetary and non-monetary benefits at all levels
to increase their productivity and performance. Most of the studies have been carried out with a
focus on various issues and dimensions of personnel administration, HR policies and practices,
HR strategies, HR Innovatives etc. But there are very few studies with regard to Work life
Balance. As against this backdrop, zeal to know the facts, which contributed to the success of
some organizations located in Hyderabad and insisted their employees for a better work-life apart
from their productivity and performance inspired the researcher to take up the study on Work
Life Balance in Selected units.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Perry-Smith et al (2000) found that Softwares developers are considered the key occupation to
examine in future studies of knowledge workers. They are vanguard of emerging work
practices. Keeping in mind the long hours working culture and 24/7 support employees in the
industry are the ones which suffer the most from work-life conflict. It was found that interference
of work with personal life has a considerable impact on work-related attitude for this group of
workers. They state that work-life boundary variables affect trust in the organisation which plays
poorer jobs than older employees but they also have higher expectations for their jobs that may
lead to lower job satisfaction. (Hall,1994).
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research design proposed for the study is Descriptive type of research service. This type of
research deals with quality of responses from the respondents, attitudes, interests, technical
skills, experience, behavioral, beliefs and values, emotions, personality, self-concept etc.,
DATA SOURCE
Primary data was collected by questionnaire survey method based on a pilot study.
Secondary data was collected from journals and Research articles to support the research
SAMPLING
The respondents were selected using convenience sampling from Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Ltd, Sourthern Region Office
SAMPLE SIZE
There are about 300 management and non- management staffs working depending on the
distribution of management and non-management staffs sample size will be chosen
TOOLS FOR DATA COLLECTION
Questionnaire will be used for data collection