Work Life Balance and Organizational Role Stress Among Women Employees A Study In Information Technology Industry In Chennai

Abstract

Increased cost of living caused by inflation has necessitated both men and women newlineto work. Both are mentally prepared to work, which calls for substantial time management, newlineplanning and sacrifice. Since many Information Technology (IT) industries in Chennai have newlinealready provided employment to women in large numbers, it is the right time to study the real newlineimpact of Work Life Balance (WLB) and Organizational Role Stress (ORS) of women IT newlineemployees in Chennai city. This study was made by the responses obtained through a newlinestructured questionnaire. newlineThe main objective of the survey is to study the WLB and ORS among Women newlineemployees in IT industry in Chennai. The tool used for collecting the data was a newlinequestionnaire, specially designed with WLB and ORS scales. A structured questionnaire was newlinedesigned and administered to about five hundred stratified randomly selected women IT newlineemployees in Chennai. The responses received have been analysed using Statistical Package newlinefor Social Science (SPSS) software. General descriptive statistics including mean and newlinestandard deviation along with two sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson s correlation and newlineregression studies have been employed for analysing the overall WLB and ORS. newlineResults of the two sample t-test and one-way ANOVA indicate that the women IT newlineemployees experience ORS and WLB issues. Pearson s correlation coefficient identifies a newlinestatistical significance of the relationship between the ORS and the WLB. The findings of newlinethis study lead to the conclusion that the ORS results in WLB issues and vice-versa among newlinewomen IT employees in Chennai. Therefore, it is recommended that Chennai IT industry newlineshould devise and invest in strategies that can keep the WLB and the level of role stress newlinewithin manageable limit among women IT employees. This, in turn, would go a long way in newlineenabling women to perform better at work, be more committed to the organisation, and newlineultimately contribute to the growth of the economy and on the whole there is a positive newlineimpact on the society.