A Study Investigating the Impact of Work-Life Balance on Job Satisfaction and Levels of Perceived Stress in Full-time Employees

Abstract

Work-life balance, job satisfaction and perceived stress are constructs that separately and linked together have been widely investigated in the literature, especially when focusing on organisations and their employees. The term work-life balance entered the workplace in the Nineteen Seventies and Greenbalt (2002) described it as the “acceptable levels of conflict between work and non-work demands”. Job satisfaction is a challenging concept to define and measure however, it is widely researched as it can provid many benefits to organisations and their workers. Multiple definitions have been proposed and the majority of them focus on job satisfaction as an employees attitude towards their job and how they evaluate it. Perceived stress is another construct which often appears in research and it represents how an individual identifies with a stressful situation involving them. Although this is a widely investigated topic it has rarely been linked to any literature involving work-life balance and job satisfaction.