Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of work-life balance practices (e.g. flexible working options, employee assistance program, and leave programs) on employee’s job performance in banking sector. This research focusing on employees as respondents from banking sector in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Data were collected from 100 samples by which data were collected through online surveys from selected banks in Klang Valley and were analyzed through statistical software. The Pearson correlation analysis was conducted between independent variables and dependent variable. The result shows to accept the hypothesis that work-life balance practices has positive relationship with employees’ job performance in banking sector. This finding could help and promote the management of companies to practice and to provide the work-life balance policies for employees in banking sector.)
Highlights
In recent years, most employees are aware of the necessity to have a balance between work and life (Omar et al, 2015)
Employee Assistance program (EAP) showed strong positive significant relationship with 0.578** (p< 0.05). This result was supported by Kipkemoi et al (2016) which revealed that Employees Assistance Programmes (EAP) has a significant effect on employee performance
This study found that all the three components of work life balance were implemented in the banking sector but there is more room for improvement
Summary
Most employees are aware of the necessity to have a balance between work and life (Omar et al, 2015). The trends in the work environment, challenges of globalization, the demand of work, the working hours and technology complexity contributes to the challenges facing by employers to practice work-life balance in the organization towards their employees (Darcy et al, 2010). According to Obiageli et al, (2015), to remain the productivity level of employees, the work-life balance incentives should be continuously offered. He mentioned that most of the Nigerian bank employees faced work-life balance issues because of long working hours and overload tasks. The changes in the nature of work for bank employees have impacted by the working schedules which diminish employee’s quality of life (Philipp et al, 2015)
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