Work Life Balance: Satisfaction of University Teachers Working from Home

Autor/inn/en	Awan, Riffat-un-Nisa; Naz, Farah
Titel	Work Life Balance: Satisfaction of University Teachers Working from Home
Quelle	In: Bulletin of Education and Research, 44 (2022) 1, S.105-119 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0555-7747
Schlagwörter	Family Work Relationship; College Faculty; Job Satisfaction; Work Environment; COVID-19; Pandemics; Family Needs; Labor Demands; Conflict; Females; Stress Variables; Distance Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Arbeitsmilieu; Arbeitskampf; Tarifkonflikt; Konflikt; Weibliches Geschlecht; Distance study; Distance learning; Fernunterricht
Abstract	Work from home has become a new normal in this global pandemic situation. Exploration of work life balance in this new context has become imperative to deal this critical situation. This study intends to explore work life balance (WLB), family and work conflicts, work and family demands, satisfaction and challenges related with work from home and assessing their interrelationships and effects. It also measures the group differences based on demographic variables and the mediation effect of work family conflicts, and challenges of work from home in the relationship between WLB and satisfaction with work from home. The sample of the study was university teachers teaching from home to undergraduate and postgraduate classes during COVID-19. Data was collected using a self-developed questionnaire, administered online. Results suggest that majority of the respondents were balancing their lives with work from home and were satisfied with it but were facing work and family demands and conflicts while dealing family and work at a time under the same roof. The results revealed significant positive correlation between WLB and satisfaction with work from home, and negative association of, family and work conflict and demands and challenges of work from home with teachers' satisfaction and WLB. Females, single and young teachers, with more work load were facing more work demands while staying at home as compared to males, married and senior teachers with less workload. The results indicated that the work family conflict and challenges of work from home had significant effect on satisfaction of university teachers' work from home and were partially mediating the association between work-life balance and satisfaction with work from home. It was suggested that employees should make arrangements such as domestic help and rational distribution of time for both the roles to be more effective while working from home. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Institute of Education and Research. University of the Punjab Quaid-i-Azam Campus, Lahore, 54590 Pakistan. e-mail: ber.ier@pu.edu.pk; Web site: http://pu.edu.pk/home/journal/32
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01