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Work Life Balance and Employee Performance in First Bank PLC.,Umuahia, Abia State

	International Journal of Scientific Research and Engineering Development (IJSRED)	Full Text:
	Published Issue : Volume-3 Issue-6
	Year of Publication : 2020
	Unique Identification Number : IJSRED-V3I6P83
	Authors : Stanley Peter Anukwuocha, Stanley Osinachi Okafor
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Abstract :

The quest to balance the bottleneck that exist among family responsibilities and job stress triggered this research which centers on the effect of work life balance on employee performance. Thus, in order to actualize the main objective of this work the following three specific objectives; ascertain the extent to which employee assistance programme affect employee performance in First Bank PLC, Umuahia, to assess the nature of relationship between leave policies and employee job satisfaction in First Bank PLC, Umuahia and to find out the nature of relationship between alternative work arrangements and employee productivity in First Bank PLC, Umuahia. Research questions and research hypotheses were structured in accordance with the specific objectives. In a bid to achieve a meaningful research study work, this research will review related literatures on effect of work life balance on employee performance Which were sub-divided into three subheadings such as conceptual framework, theoretical framework and empirical review. However, in the quest to perfect this research; survey research design was adopted, where data was sourced primarily through questionnaire instrument. The questionnaire instrument was distributed to 84 staff of First bank Nigeria plc Umuahia branch of which 80 were completely filled and returned. Thus, the data gathered were analyzed using simple regression. The analysis however made the following findings; that there is a significant effect of work life balance on employee performance of First bank PLC, that there is a significant effect of Employee assistance programme on employee performance of First bank PLC, that there is a significant relationship between leave policies and employee performance in First bank PLC, Umuahia. That Compress work weeks, telecommuting, and job sharing have a positive relationship with employee productivity in First Bank PLC, Umuahia. Sequel to the findings and conclusion, the research made the following recommendations that managers should provide more flexible work arrangements considerations such as allowing job sharing, flextime and flexible career as long as employees meet targets since this influences performa0nce. Flexible career paths and encouraging job sharing as a form of flexibility is important in increasing performance of an organization. That counseling program should be adopting as an employee assistance programme in order to promulgate employee performance in an organization. That organization should observe leave policy in the employee employment agreement so as to continue to re-energize employees at every given point in time and that closer examination of other flexible work arrangements, including part-time work, job-sharing, and compressed workweek should be considered by other companies other than financial institutions. Conclusively, based on the findings; the researcher recommends further research to be carried out on workforce diversification on employee performance in commercial banks so as widen the scope of work life balance.