Abstract
Work, family and social life are considered to be the most important spheres for an individual’s life. The current study focuses on to determine the level of work-life balance, to analyze the impacts of perceived role demands on work-life balance and to estimate the moderating effects of work ethics between role demands and work-life balance relationship among professionals in Sri Lanka. The sample consists of 386 professionals of Chartered Engineers, Medical Officers and Accountants employed in the public sector organizations in Sri Lanka. Explanatory research design with quantitative research approach of cross sectional survey method was adapted. Primary data was collected using Questionnaire survey with stratified random sampling techniques. Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modelling approach with Amos 21 and SPSS statistics 23. The Multi-Group Analysis in Amos also has been applied for testing the moderation effect of work ethics. This study found that professionals possess a moderate level of work-life balance and there is significant and negative causal impacts of perceived work and social demands on work-life balance while combined effects of perceived role demands have significantly and negatively impact on work - life balance. Moreover, work-life balance is skewed towards works and less in family and social role demand is an emerging issue for professionals. Further, work ethic has significant and partial moderation effect between role demands and work-life balance relationships. This study is significant and beneficial for managers, organizational leaders and researchers to address the needs of employees to develop strategies and policies to address work - life balance issues and social implications for employees, family members, societies and researchers. The limitation of the study is that all of the measures were self-reported that common method variance may raise concern. Future studies using longitudinal design would be useful in establishing the temporal causal relationship among the private sector professionals in Sri Lanka.
Highlights
Sri Lanka is a beautiful Island situated in the Indian Ocean with a total population of 21 million
In the above model, perceived work role demands had a negative effect on work - life balance (β =-0.503, p = 0.000), perceived family role demands had a negative and no significant effect on work - life balance (β =-0.068, p = -0.353) and perceived social role demands had a negative and significant effect on work - life balance (β = -0.111, p = 0.050)
This study verified that perceived work and social role demands have negative and significant causal impacts on work-life balance while no significant causal effect was found by family demands
Summary
Sri Lanka is a beautiful Island situated in the Indian Ocean with a total population of 21 million. The labour force participation rate of female in Sri Lanka has increased significantly from 25 percent in 1986 and 34.8 percent in 2019 It has been witnessed from literature that major changes have been occurred in work, family and social life domains in terms of economic, demographic, work, social and political contexts in Sri Lanka. Family and social domains are vital and inter-connected to people and performing of multiple roles negatively impacts on individuals, families and employing organizations significantly. Mass entry of women into the labour force in service sector leading to increase numbers of dual earners, single parents, dual career couples and elder care related issues. According to Sullivan (2019), research has still indicated that there are significant disparities between men and women pertaining to the work-family balance. Increase use of information technology and advancement in technology that have made the path to easy access to employer and ijbm.ccsenet.org
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