Abstract
Work-life balance has been a topic of various researches where researches have been mostly concerned with the influence of organizational practices and policies on work-family balance. On the other side the relation between demographics and work-life balance, particularly in academics sphere, has not been well investigated. Therefore we test in our research how gender, age and the academic rank affect work-life balance among higher education lecturers. Participants in this study were higher education lecturers from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia and Slovenia. The results of our research show that with a higher academic rank the work-life balance among higher education lecturers' increases. Results show no difference in work-life balance among higher education lecturers based on gender. Potential curvilinearity between age and work-life balance among higher education lecturers was not confirmed due to the lack of statistical significance. The results of this study give better insights into the basic demographics' effect on work-life balance, particularly among higher education lecturers. Results of this study can be used both for further research and in practice.
Highlights
Nowadays, due to a fast pace of life, work-life balance is not always an easy task
Based on studied literature and previous research, we propose our three research questions: RQ1: Is there a difference in work-life balance among higher education lecturers based on gender?
First we wanted to answer RQ1, in which we researched if there is a difference in work-life balance among higher education lecturers based on gender
Summary
Due to a fast pace of life, work-life balance is not always an easy task. Balancing the requirements and obligations of working and family life, is an important topic of general conversations between people as well as numerous scientific research. Worklife balance related problems disturb every person, unrelatedly of their level of gender, race, age, education, profession, income, family structure, and status of work (McMillan, Morris and Atchley, 2011). The most common troubles due to the work-life unbalance are being fatigue, underperformance, feeling less qualified and not well at work, dissatisfaction of job and walk-out (Erdamar and Demirel, 2014). Academic work is characterized by the fact that the working day is not precisely defined; education lecturers are often faced with the work-life balance problem
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