The factors affecting work life balance of married working women: with special reference to Bank of Ceylon head office

Abstract

Work life balance (WLB) is one of the biggest challenges in many females’ life. It is one of the major determinants of employee performance and productivity in many organizations since many organizations have higher number of female employees.Helping women to balance their family and professional life is very essential and important for obtaining maximum contribution from female employees towards organizational goals.The objective of this study is to identify factors affecting work life balance of married working women in banking sector and this study focuses on Bank of Ceylon head office. The total married working women in the bank of Ceylon head office is 320 employees, out of that married female employees who have at least one child below 15 years old not known therefore the study used the snowball sampling techniquesto collect the data and to select 32 head office married female employees who have at least one child below 15 years old. They are in the grades of managerial andexecutive level where the response rate was 100%. Reliability test have been done. Pearson correlation has been used to identify the relationship between the factors and work life balance of married working women. Findings of the study indicate that there is a positive relationship between work life balance factors (child care, working hours, and support system) and work life balance of married working women at the significant level 0.01.At the end of the study, researcher come to a conclusion, according to the regression analysis there is a significant combined relationship between child care, working hours, supportive network and work life balance of married working women.