Work-Life Balance of Women Employees of Commercial Banks in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Work-life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which will enable employees to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen employee loyalty and productivity. Work-life balance is used to describe the equilibrium between responsibilities at work and responsibilities outside paid work; having a work-life balance means that this equilibrium is in the right position for the individual concerned. Work life and personal life are interconnected and interdependent. Work life and personal life are the two sides of the same coin. People have to make tough choices even when their work and personal life is nowhere close to equilibrium. Particularly the role of women is very crucial and pathetic. The identification of the equilibrium point between work and life is difficult to the employee alone. Therefore the support of the organization is very important. To what extent the employee needs support from the employer is the qualitative one and differs from one to another. This research have the objective to identify the factors leads work life balance and also measures the work life balance of employees of the banking industry.