Work Life Balance

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ABSTRACT This study aims to find how men and women differ in balancing their work life and managing their role stress. 30 questionnaires each were given to men and women between the ages of 35- 55 and who worked at a similar post in the same or different organizations. Two separate questionnaires measured work life balance and organizational work stress. Using a random t test, the analysis of data indicated that women can balance work life better and hence face lesser organizational role stress compared to men. INTRODUCTION Technically stress is the adverse reaction an individual has to excessive pressure or other types of demand placed on them. In the workplace, the negative, damaging, effects of stress can arise at times when pressures are extreme, such as peak busy periods, but equally can be caused by continuous exposure to stressful conditions, such as being in an unsuitable job or being treated unfairly. Outside work, negative stress can be caused by major change events, such as a death in the family, but equally by continuous pressure of having a life constrained or dominated by the work situation. Stress is personal in that stress affects individuals in different ways. In similar situations or conditions some people cope, even thrive, on the pressure, whilst others find it difficult to cope and suffer negative stress as a result. It is also personal in the sense that the amount of control that the individual has, over their workplace conditions, events, and work-life balance, will influence the amount of negative stress that they suffer from. Those individuals with greater control will tolerate and manage stress levels, or avoid them altogether, more successfully. Work-life balance is, literally, balancing the demands, the amount of time and effort, given to work and the workplace, and that given to the individual’s
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