A Relationship between Work-Life Balance and Job Performance of Employees

Work-life balance is an emerging contemporary issue that everyone is struggling to achieve between the work sphere and the family sphere. Despite its importance, private organizations employ several work-life balance, promoting practices to enhance the employee job performance as well as organizational performance. However, there are lacunas in empirical studies undertaken in private organizations regarding the relationship between work-life balance and job performance. This study was conducted in order to fulfil these empirical knowledge gaps. Hence, the objective of this study is to test the relationship between work-life balance and job performance. In order to achieve the objectives, primary data were collected from 100 employees of selected private companies in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and the structured questionnaire was administered to collect the data. The data were analysed by using univariate and bivariate analyses. The findings of the study revealed that work-life balance has a positive and significant relationship with job performance in overall. The current study is considered to be vital in understanding the empirical knowledge regarding the relationship between work-life balance and job performance.