Journal of Human Resources Management and Labor Studies

An Exploration of the Effects of Work Life Balance on Productivity
Fapohunda, Tinuke. M

Abstract
Work-life balance is now an important determinant for more workers in attaining a thriving career. With swelling obligations in the work place, the divide between work life and private life has taken on superior significance and entails more consciousness. The stipulations of work or personal life can cause stress. Such circumstances impact on workers physiologically and psychologically. Hence, it is crucial for employees to maintain a sturdy stability between work and their private lives. For the employers, work-life balance of employees is a central means in formulating appropriate strategies to tackle work-life imbalance concerns. This paper studies the result of work life balance (WLB) on employee productivity and how Nigerian workers handle the inauspicious working situations and coordinate their work and family lives. It explores the connection between work life balance (WLB) practices and organizational productivity and whether WLB practices possibly decreases employee turnover and absenteeism. It also scrutinizes work-life balance challenges faced by workers and methods of enhancing work-life balance practices amongst employees. The paper posits that work-life balance options should be fashioned to facilitate employees balancing their work and personal lives. Work-life balance it is not a quandary to be determined once but a constant concern to be managed. For organization goals to be achieved through the people employed, work-life balance concerns must become a crucial feature of human resource policy and strategy. Management must build a profound endorsement of people and their roles, to fashion a satisfying, extraordinary and self-motivated work environment.

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