Abstract
The issues related to work-life balance have become a phenomenon and received substantial attention over recent years. Working individuals have to juggle work and home demands in their lives in order to balance them. It is possible for individuals to be out of balance, feel tired, and not be able to manage their lives efficiently. As a result, individuals who are practicing multiple roles inevitably experience conflicts which could further jeopardize their quality of lives. Hence, this paper aims to propose a conceptual framework by investigating the effect of work and home demands on work-family conflict in achieving work-life balance among academicians. The individual’s level of job involvement, work-role conflict, and work overload are identified as the sources of work demands, whereas the family involvement and family conflict are taken as home demands. Three forms of work-family conflict are also discussed in this paper due to combining work and home demands. Practically, there is an urgent call for an organization to find flexible and innovative solutions that would enable employees to achieve work/family balance. In short, helping employees to achieve a certain level of work-life balance could go far in increasing employee’s work and life satisfaction.
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