Work life balance WLB and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Women Employees in Select Organizations

Abstract

Work takes precedence over everything in our lives and when an individual newlinegets out to work, it becomes critical to integrate work and social life (Sanfilippo, newline2020; Sharma, 2016) and willingness and ability to combine the two is a delicate task. newlineThe boundaries between work and life are blurring in today s pandemic time with newlinework entering our homes (Latha, 2020), which consolidates the issue further as in newlinemany Asian regions, a key concern for employees has been work-life effectiveness newline(Rajadhyaksha, 2008). The intent of work-life balance is to lower the conflict among newlinework life and home life, to achieve a right balance between office work and other newlinepursuits (Sharma, 2016). Long hours and overtime would often be a general newlinephenomenon in local economies and work cultures in developing economies (Ng and newlineVernon, 2010; Wharton andamp; Blair, 2006). Although being global trend, due to various newlinecultural contexts, work-life concerns play out differently (Shyamsunder, Pollack andamp; newlineTravis, 2015). For those desiring to have good quality of life, balancing work and life newlinehas been and continues to be an area of concern (Breitenecker andamp; Shah, 2018). newline