Review on Impact of Quality of Work-Life Balance of Women Employees in an Organization

Job stress is defined as the stress that is developed by the employee at the work place. It arises when the employee is not comfortable and is not capable of doing the work allotted. The ease and knowledge of the work perceived by the employee is the factor that creates stress to the employee in the workplace. The female employees undergo more stress than the male employees. The stressors felt by the married female employees becomes a matter of concern. It is a well-known fact that both men and women are the two sides of the same coin, each one of them possessing an exclusive allure and exhibiting their own style of thinking and handling the situations differently. Among the various stressors faced by the women employees at the workplace, gender bias is a threatening and a fear-fighting challenge undergone by the women employees. Efforts to bridge the gender gap are still far behind with many of the government and the private organizations. This study makes an attempt to analyze the various stressors that are faced by the women employees at the workplace and the impact of the same in the overall outcome and in the growth of the organization. The tool used for the analysis was a questionnaire comprising of 10 key factors covering the study. They are rated on a 5-point Likert-scale ranging from Strongly Agree with a maximum of 5 points to a minimum of 1 point for Strongly Disagree. The data was collected from a sample of 50 respondents belonging to 4 companies in Chennai covering both the genders. The data obtained were analyzed by use of statistical techniques such as Mean, Standard Deviation and t-Test. The statistical analysis were made with SPSS (version 2.0). The findings suggested that organizations who keep their employees satisfied, especially the female employees, have achieved high growth and profitability as they are said to be highly focused in the work they do, more committed and have been victorious in making a mark on their own in such a shrinking competitive market.