Byline: Ritu Saxena

Ritu Saxena*

Assistant Professor, Institute of Technology and Science, Ghaziabad

* Corresponding Author E-mail: profritusaxena@gmail.com

ABSTRACT:

Currently, in the Indian context, the concern over work life balance is a pertinent issue. Today's scenario is marked by the fast changing environment, intensive pressures, greater use of technology, high professionalism and greater work stress. Today's age consists of many working parents whose main aim is to find a proper balance between work and family. When these employees go home, they should not carry any and work stress with them. This concept of Work-life balance has a deep and everlasting impact on employee's attitudes and behaviours as well as on organisational effectiveness. Thus, it is a challenging issue for all the HR managers, leaders and researchers. The organisations must aim to provide such a practical and workable work -life balance policies and environment to its employees that meets the needs of both the organization as well as its employees. Thus, this research paper is an attempt to study the work-life balance issues in detail and focuses on the initiatives and strategies adopted by the organisations and employees to balance their work and life interface. This paper is an attempt against the highly augmenting working hours and work pressures and also deals with the problems that the employees have to face , especially in India where the families are given the top priority. The difficulties of employees coping with work and other aspect of life sphere remain a challenge. Therefore, this study seeks to examine the strategies in organizational work schedule that can be designed in encouraging and achieving work life balance.

KEYWORDS: Work life balance, Flexible work schedule, Work from Home

INTRODUCTION:

The work-life balance has become fairly universal in conversation about management and organization life. We hear about work-life balance from employers, through extensive discussion in the media, and increasingly in academic research. Given this broad usage of the term "work-life balance", we assume that the concept is much more complex than it may seem to be at first glance. Researchers defined work-life balance is a harmonious interface between different life domains Abendroth and den Dulk (2011).

The complexity of this concept is evident when we think about a person's limited resources, such as time, energy and money. Lyness and Judiesch (2008) explain the scarcity theory by using an example of a "balanced employee". This balanced employee is supposed to be more involved in a family role, thus having less time or other resources for work, than an employee who is more exclusively focused on work. Due to the fixed amount of resources, these theories support a negative relationship between family life and career advancement (Graves et al., 2007; Lyness and Judiesch, 2008; Netemeyer et al., 2005).

Work life balance (WLB) has become an essential element in sustaining and achieving balance between individual life and work life. Although emerged as solution oriented attempt to ease the women workforce of conflict arising as a result of their involvement in the workforce,...