| Pub. Date | : Jul, 2019 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of Organizational Behavior |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJOB41907 |
| Author Name | : Sabina Baniya Chhetri |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Management |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 27 |
Work-life balance has started to become an issue even in developing countries due to an increasing number of women joining the workforce either due to financial necessities or desire to pursue a career. While the acceptance of women joining the workforce is visible in Nepal, their traditional household roles have not changed, which has created a challenge for both the genders. Hence, this study attempts to establish predictor variables and outcome variables of positive aspect of Work- Family Balance: Work-Family Enrichment (WFE) and Family-Work Enrichment (FWE) and its mediating effect. The sample included 402 married school teachers working full-time in various private schools in the Kathmandu valley. The results in general found support for many of the hypothesized relationship between predictor variables: Core Self-Evaluation (CSE), Perceived Organizational Support (POS), WFE and FWE. Likewise, WFE, FWE and outcome variables—affective commitment, job satisfaction, and family satisfaction—have a significant relationship. Both WFE and FWE partially mediated all the hypothesized relationship between predictor variables and outcome variables.
Globalization, technological advances, demographic changes, dual-career couples and changes in the individuals’ outlook and desires are the factors that have made work-life balance a concern for academia and practitioners (Baral and Bhargava, 2010; and Mishra, 2015). In Nepal, the demographic changes are seen in the form of women joining the workforce. 22.5% of working-age women are employed. The proportion of those who are employed increased with the level of education, irrespective of gender (Nepal Labour Force Survey, 2017). The Nepal Labour Survey report further reported that females were almost evenly distributed across the formal non-agriculture sector, informal agriculture sector and informal non-agriculture sector with 32.3%, 31.8%, and 32.9% share, respectively.