HOLISTIC APPROACH TOWARDS WLB –A STUDY ON EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

Individual awareness of high Work Life Balance (WLB) and the logic of comfort amongst the workforces have become vital for any organization in order to safeguard heightened performance competence, mainly in this era of extremely viable business environment. It is no wonder that the WLB has attracted abundant contributions. Elizabeth M. O'Laughlin& Lisa G. Bischoff (2005) [1], Fatoki, F.T and Kobiowu, S.V (2015)[2]Marietta Del Favero(2002)[3], David C. Sharp (2009)[4], Dr.Saleh Ali Y. Alqarni (2016)[5]made an effort to explore on various factors influencing WLB like work environment, family support, work engagement, etc, their interrelationship and probable results of different stages of WLB prevalent among employees. Some of the statistical tools used are Correlation and Regression analysis to analyze the data. The major findings of this study suggest that majority of the faculty are highly engaged on their job and they seem to be quite satisfied with their work environment and their supervisor support but not very satisfied with the family support and time management. There is significant association between work environment and work engagement. There is significant association between work engagement and family support they receive. But there is no significant relationship between work engagement and time management of faculty members. There is no link between work engagement and supervisor support received by the faculty members. This paper is an attempt to understand how some of the factors influence in achieving WLB among academicians of various management institutes. Further research is discussed in the paper.