A STUDY ON REASONS BEHIND WORK LIFE IMBALANCE FOR WOMEN AT IT AND BPO IN AROUND TRICHY Dr G.BALAMURUGAN 1 M.THENDRAL 2 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Anna University (BIT Campus), Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Final year PG student, Department of Management Studies, Anna University (BIT Campus), ABSTRACT Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India Women play a strong role in the lives of people around them. The time and efforts they expend for their family and their work place realization their physical, psychological, emotional and social components. So it is important for women to balance between their family and work. This paper targets at analyzing the difference between level of Work Life Balance among male and female middle level employees and the main reason behind the difference. Key words; work life balance, women INTRODUCTION Women of the early centuries were mostly narrowed to their kitchens and those who were employed worked in factories, farms or shop works. Very rare woman s had the admission to higher education and they were forced to be at the clemency of their fathers or husbands insolences towards women and work. The fast developing knowledge economy has given place for more number of women to be open-minded by higher education. Education has not only permitted them but also has given them tough careers. With brain power being the essential skill in this knowledge era, rather than strength or physical strength, the women workers seem to torrent into every industry on balance with men. But this has really become a tough challenge for women as they have to achieve a lot of duties in home and office as well. As working women get married, they have additional duties and when they become mothers, they have to manage the main care of children and protracted family and are thus, under countless pressure to continue on a career path. Working mothers of today fulfill family responsibilities and also try to continue fully involved in their careers managing up with the challenging demands of their multiple roles. The caring responsibilities that working mothers have lays a hefty stress on them when it is joint with their professional duties. The attempt of working women to participate, organize and balance the various problems and activities in their different roles concurrently puts them under tremendous pressure. Work Life Balance of Women employee has become an important subject then the women are equally sharing the earning responsibility for the advancement of their family. Women are getting into jobs and they continue to work even after marriage. A married woman has more responsibility than man in taking care of young kids and family. The working women professionally overcome difficult situations by their obligation and perseverance. The participation of women in income generation activities lends them to satisfy their family needs to a countless extent. This paper aims to review the existing literature on Work Life Balance of Women Employee with an identification of various characteristics towards the achievement of work life balance. This study concludes the reason behind women s work life imbalance. www.icmrr.org 158 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
Need for the Study In order to maintain an effective, productive and mentally healthy labor force, management should create an atmosphere that will enable people to actualize their full potential. The organizations need to consider the employees as human beings who have the other side of lives apart from employment. When their personal and social lives are taken care of the employees will contribute their full potential to the organization. This contribution will benefit both the employee as well as the employer. This study intends to analyze the association between family type and the number of promotions of an employee and his/her level of work life balance. Limitations of this study This study was conducted only at trichy and also mainly concentrate on the women employees only. Consequences of work life imbalance Mental health is a balancing act that may be affected by the influence of upsetting disturbance, by private pressures and most recently by the stress of working. Many people expose themselves unsolicited to the job stress, because the hard worker enjoys a very high social recognition. These aspects can be the cause of an imbalance in the areas of life. But there are also other reasons which can lead to such an imbalance. Objectives INTERCONTINENTAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE RESEARCH REVIEW To find the various reasons for work life imbalance. To find the ways for improving women s work life balance. To analyze and study the challenges faced by women employees day and night shifts Scope The scope of the study was limited to the working women of Trichy from the BPO and IT sectors regarding the challenges that they face in balancing professional life and personal life. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; Description of the sample; The study was conducted among the working women of Trichy. A sample of 100 working women s was selected using convenient sampling. They were from IT and BPO sectors 50 from each sector chosen for this study. This study focused only working women at Trichy. Tools for Data collection; The Following variables are used data collection are, 1. Social Needs 2. Personal Needs 3. Time Management 4. Team Work 5. Compensation Benefits 6. Work. www.icmrr.org 159 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
Data collection The Researcher has selected profession from BPO and IT sectors in around Trichy. And this study only focused on working women. Primary Data To obtain the primary data, a survey was conducted among the working woman through structured questionnaire. Secondary Data Secondary data are collected from the previous research papers, online sources, journals, Analysis The Researcher have done the analysis for this study by considering the following 6 Factors: S.No Variables Strongly Agree Agree Neutral Dis Agree Strongly Disagree 1 Social needs 20 40 10 18 12 2 Personal needs 20 50 10 12 8 3 Time management 10 5 7 8 70 4 Team work 10 45 20 16 9 5 Compensation benefits 60 7 13 10 10 6 Work 22 8 30 40 5 Social Needs Social needs 40 20 18 10 12 Overall response of IT and BPO employees with respect to social needs is 40% respondents are agreed And 10% employees are neutral www.icmrr.org 160 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
Personal Needs Personal needs Personal needs 50 20 10 12 8 Overall response of IT and BPO employees with respect to personal needs 50% respondents agreed And 8% employees strongly disagreed Time Management Time management 70 10 5 7 8 From the figure it is inferred that 70% of the employees could not adopt the time management 5% of employees agreed to follow the time management www.icmrr.org 161 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
Team Work Team work 45 10 20 16 9 From the figure 45% of the employees agreed to adopt the team work 9% employees could not adopt it Compensation Benefits Compensation benefits 60 7 13 10 10 From the figure 60% 0f employees strongly agreed to satisfy the compensation benefits in their organization 7% of employees agreed to satisfy their compensation benefits www.icmrr.org 162 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
Work Work 40 30 22 8 5 From the the figure 40% of employees disagreed with the working hours and nature of work 5% of employees strongly disagree FINDINGS The study was intended to identify the difficulties faced by the working women with selected demographic variables Maximum number of respondents feels satisfied with social needs Half of the respondents got Satisfied with their personal needs Highest Number of respondents does not able to maintain time management Only least number of Respondents were dissatisfied with Teamwork in the Organization. Most of the respondents were satisfied with the Organization s compensation benefits Most of the respondents are satisfied with the working hours and nature of work SUGGESTIONS Women Employees have low level of work life balance in the dimensions of Time Management and Work Flexibility. Hence Organization can provide flexible time if it is possible. The Organizations provide training programs for the improvement of Women employees CONCLUSION The implementation of work life balance programs has both individual and organizational benefits. Effective work life balance programs facilitate a cooperative relationship between the employee and employer for mutual benefits to both of them. Employees who are better able to balance the demands on their time and they perform very well. It is understood from the concept of work life balance that fulfillment of Time management is the important forecasters of work life balance. So the organizations (IT & BPOs in Trichy) should focus on work life balance of women employees by enriching the role efficacy of women employees & their Self Development www.icmrr.org 163 icmrrjournal@gmail.com
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