Work-Life Balance – Its Impact on Job Satisfaction among the Healthcare Workers in Senapati District, Manipur

Abstract

Healthcare workers play an essential role in our day-to-day lives. Their ability to stay focused on the job, stay satisfied with their job, and maintain a healthy balance between their professional work and personal lives are prudence for them to discharge their duty effectively and efficiently. As a cross-sectional study and quantitative investigation, this study focuses on the healthcare workers’ work-life balance and its impact on job satisfaction. Using random sampling, a questionnaire survey was conducted, which was analysed through IBM SPSS Statistics 21. To achieve the goals of the study, statistical tools like Cronbach’s Alpha, independent-sample t-test, exploratory factor analysis, and Pearson correlation coefficient are employed. The study found that 5 per cent of healthcare workers have no balance between work and personal life, while 72.3 per cent are moderately balanced and 22.7 per cent are highly balanced. The study also found that female and unmarried healthcare workers have significantly higher work-life balance than male and married workers, respectively. Work-life balance and job satisfaction were found to have a moderately positive relationship, suggesting a significant linear relationship between the two variables. Thus, top management and employers in the healthcare industry must improve the policies and initiatives relating to work-life balance to keep the employees satisfied. Further, such policies and initiatives should be framed strategically to maintain equality for all employees, mainly male and female and married and unmarried workers.