Impact of Work Life Balance on the Commitment of Executive Female Employees in the Pandemic Situation: An Empirical Study of a State Commercial Bank in Sri Lanka

Abstract

In the present dynamic and competitive business environment many employees are struggling to maintain balance between their work life and family life. Thus, organizations highly encourage work life balance through sustainable work policies to ensure better quality of work. Abrupt increase in attention towards work life balance has occurred among scholars due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation as during the pandemic period work life balance entirely shifted to a different form. Hence it is significant to each and every organization specially banking sector which face aggressive competition to have knowledge on work life balance and its impacts during pandemic to mold their culture according to the dynamic changes to ensure sustainable growth. The key objective of this study was to identify the impact of work life balance on executive female employees’ commitment at a large state commercial bank’s corporate division in pandemic situation. Independent variable of the study considered as the work life balance which include several dimensions namely; time balance, strain balance and behavior balance. Whereas dependent variable, employee commitment. The researcher used a structured questionnaire to collect secondary data using random sampling method. All the female officer grade employees currently attached to corporate division at Bank of Ceylon were taken as population which is around 297 at present and data were collected randomly from selected 124 sample respondents. Four hypotheses were formulated to attain objectives of the study. Statistical analysis such as descriptive analysis, linear regression analysis and multiple regression analysis are used in this study and the result of the study showed that time balance, strain balance and behavior balance of female officer grade employees are individually and altogether as a work life balance significantly effects on employee commitment towards the bank in pandemic situation which are supported by statistical evidence. Future research may be extended to identify the impact of work life balance on employee commitment of employees irrespective to the gender and by focusing on employees from every geographical part in the island and also the study may have conducted using other variables that may differentially affect work life balance.