International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (IASIR) (An Association Unifying the Sciences, Engineering, and Applied Research)
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International Journal of Engineering, Business and Enterprise Applications (IJEBEA) www.iasir.net IMPACT OF STRAIN-BASED CONFLICT ON THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE AMONG BANK EMPLOYEES Dr. Anil. K. Bhatt Professor, Pacific Institute of Business Studies, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. E-mail: anilbhatt_ndhn@yahoo.com & Chandani Goyal Research Scholar, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. _________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Work-life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which will enable employees to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen employee loyalty and productivity. The work-life, or work-family, balance is a frequently cited phenomenon. The current study assumes that bank workers may be more prone to imbalance effects than other groups of employees as workers frequently face extended work schedules and unrealistic deadlines. Results conclude that bank employee strongly believes that tension and anxiety from work often pinch into their personal and family life and they often feel emotionally drained when get home from work that prevents them from contributing to family life. Keywords: strain, work life conflict, banking sector __________________________________________________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION Balance is the key to lead a successful and beautiful life which includes everything but in balance. It is important in everyone’s life be it in the life of an entrepreneur, student or a housewife to maintain a balance between various aspects of their daily routine. A student must know how to balance between his studies and curricular activities; otherwise he will fail in one or the other thing (Global Research Analysis). Our life has so many things to deal with, like our relationships, work, health, entertainment , responsibilities for family and country etc. and to be successful in all these aspects, we must know how maintain balance between all of them. The topic of life balance starts from and has been mostly discussed in applied psychological disciplines such as work or family psychology. Theories and approaches within social psychology and personality psychology (e.g., Personality Systems Interaction Theory, Kuhl, 2001; the Self-Concordance Model within Self-Determination Theory, Sheldon & Elliot, 1999) provide a useful framework to explain several findings of life balance research. As noted above, the approach of life balance was initially conceived in terms of work-family balance (e.g., Hill, Hawkins, Ferris, & Weitzman, 2001) or work-family conflict (Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek, & Rosenthal, 1964). Work-family balance was defined as the degree to which an individual is able to simultaneously balance the temporal demands of both paid work and family responsibilities, whereas work-family conflict represented incompatibilities between work and family responsibilities because of limited resources like time and energy. However, the work-life system is multi- and not just two dimensional (Seiwert 2000, 2001). We have to deal with more than two domains when we speak about life balance. Warren (2004), for example, notes that over 170 different life domains have been identified in previous investigations. The major ones include domains of work, financial resources, leisure, dwelling and neighborhood, family, friendships, social participation and health. Seiwert (2000, 2001) distinguishes apart from work and family two other life domains – health and meaningfulness of life – that are important in human life as well. His approach is based on the intercultural research that identified four domains as the most important areas of life. These represent the main factors which reflect the multidimensionality of life. The life areas are: (1) work/achievement, (2) social contact/relationships, (3) health/body, and (4) meaningfulness of life. II. LITERATURE REVIEW Greenhaus and Beutell (1985) describe that strain-based conflict occurs when the strain created in one role makes it difficult to meet the expectations of another role. It can lead to both adverse physical and psychological states that spill over into other areas of an employee’s life (Edwards & Rothbard, 2000). Additionally, Batt and Valcour (2003) found that usage of technology is significantly associated with work-life conflict. This is of IJEBEA 15-437; © 2015, IJEBEA All Rights Reserved
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