Abstract:
The work life balance concept attracted by various researches and scholars, it is a
trending topic to achieve the organization success today. Hence the organizations are
using quality human resource and their work life balance for this purpose. Therefore
work-life balance is important not only for employees’ also employers too. Because
work life imbalance leads to dissatisfaction in life as well as in workplace. The
objective of the study is to assess the factors affecting work life balance of school
teachers, for this purpose the study selected three important variables through
literature review suit to the study context. Accordingly, workload, social support,
childcare was selected as the factors of work life balance as independent variables and
work life balance was selected as dependent variable. The researchers used a
structured questionnaire to collect the primary data using population study technique.
It was possible to collect 82 responses and this data used to analyze the reliability,
descriptive statistic, correlation and regression analyses. The results of the analysis
found that a negative relationship between workload, childcare with work life balance,
also a strong positive relationship found between social support and work life balance.
The multiple regression analysis disclosed that 57% variation of work life balance
explain by these three variables together. The result of the research will be helpful for
the school administrators, to identify the importance of work life balance in order to
improve the outcome of their schools.
