An Examination of Relationship between Job Characteristics and Work-Life Balance According to the Teachers’ Opinions

Polat, Şule; Özdemir, Murat

doi:10.15390/eb.2020.7944

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“…Our study contributes to the fields of organizational behavior, work-life interplay, and HRM in the following ways. First, we contribute to the WLB literature by analyzing the influence of individual job design characteristics on WLB (Polat & Özdemir, 2020;Walia, 2014), advancing this stream of research by taking a holistic approach to capturing enriched job design as a composite second-order construct embodying key job characteristics, and examining its relationship with WLB. We confirmed Jindal et al's (2013) findings that enriched job design leads to higher WLB, and then corroborated it by including not only the self-assessments of WLB but also the assessments of their family members.…”

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“…We also extended the line of inquiry investigating job characteristics and individual characteristics as predictors of WLB (Jindal et al, 2013;Polat & Özdemir, 2020;Saleem & Abbasi, 2015) by including formalization as a moderating organizational factor, on the basis of the JD-C model. Our study showed that organizational formalization has no significant effect on the relationship between enriched job design and WLB or on the relationship between individual job design characteristics and WLB.…”

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“…We have identified three potential theoretical contributions to the fields of organizational behavior, work-life interaction, and human resource management. First, we advance existing research on WLB by examining enriched job design in the context of WLB rather than focusing on one specific job design characteristic as most previous studies (e.g., Polat & Özdemir, 2020;Walia, 2014) have done. Second, we also contribute to previous research on WLB that has focused on the Big Five personality traits (i.e., extraversion, openness to experience, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and agreeableness), which are more or less stable (Costa & McCrae, 1992;Kaur, 2013;Kundnani & Mehta, 2014;Leka & de Alwis, 2016;Pandey et al, 2018), by focusing on other individual characteristics (i.e., resilience and proactive personality) that can be trained in organizations and that are more malleable than basic personality traits.…”

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The COVID-19 outbreak has blurred the boundaries between work and personal life, making the concept of work–life balance (WLB) even more important. Based on a three-source (employees, family members, and supervisors) sample ( n = 436) of working professionals, we investigated the importance of enriched job design for employee WLB. In addition, on the basis of the job demand-control (JD-C) model, we examined whether organizationally imposed formalization and employees’ individual adaptive personality traits (proactive personality and resilience) act as boundary conditions that strengthen this positive relationship. First, we conducted a supplementary analysis to investigate further which of the enriched job design characteristics play the most important role in our three-way interaction models predicting WLB. Then we discuss implications for theory and practice.

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“…Findings revealed that female teachers balance their career goals with societal demands and expectations, which often compete or interfere with their private lives. In another study, Polat & Özdemir (2020) examined the relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and the work-life balance of teachers according to the teachers' opinions in Turkey. As a result of the analysis, it was observed that there is a significant correlation between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and the work-life balance of teachers.…”

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Work-Life Balance Practices and Teacher Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya

Matula¹

2022

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The importance of Work-Life Balance (WLB) in organizations cannot be over-emphasized, for there is so much to lose or gain depending on whether the Work-Life Balance practices are available or not. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of work-life balance practices (administrative adherence to leave policies, supportive work environment by the school administration, make-up time, and job sharing) on teachers' performance in public secondary schools in Homa-Bay County, Kenya. The variables of the study were discussed in relation to spillover theory. The study used a descriptive survey design. The sample included 320 teachers from 74 schools. Simple and stratified random sampling techniques were used. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Content validity was tested through expert judgement. Test re-test was used to test reliability. The reliability of the questionnaire instrument was 8.5. The study used Pearson correlation coefficient, ANOVA, and multiple linear regression analysis in the data analysis. The study established that work-life balance leads to an increase in teachers' performance. The study concluded that WLB translates to productivity and that people who combine all aspects of their life in a balanced manner are satisfied with their jobs. The study recommended, among others, that institutions invest in more work-life balance practices to enable teachers to maintain a healthy balance between work and their private lives. It is also recommended that policies and structures that enhance the WLB of teachers should be promoted. Additionally, it is recommended that the Teachers Service Commission should support regulations on work-life balance practices to improve teacher performance.

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The role of distance education in teachers' work-life balance

Kandemir¹,

Şenay

2022

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This study aims to determine the role of distance education in teachers' work-life balance. The population of the study consisted of 65 teachers working in public schools in the center of Bolu, Turkey in the second semester of the academic year 2020–2021 in primary, secondary, and high schools. Data was collected using interview questions which were prepared by the researchers. The phenomenological method, which is one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study, and the data obtained were analyzed using descriptive analysis and content analysis. The study concluded that distance education, in general, hurts teachers' family relationships and leads to role conflict among teachers. In addition, distance education negatively affects teachers' school-family balance, interferes with their family duties and responsibilities, and negatively affects their social relationships and those of their families in general. Based on the findings, suggestions were made such as conducting in-service training seminars for teachers to ensure effective work-life balance and reducing teachers' responsibilities, especially in the area of stationery.

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An Examination of Relationship between Job Characteristics and Work-Life Balance According to the Teachers’ Opinions

Cited by 3 publications

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The Key to Work–Life Balance is (Enriched) Job Design? Three-Way Interaction Effects with Formalization and Adaptive Personality Characteristics

The Key to Work–Life Balance is (Enriched) Job Design? Three-Way Interaction Effects with Formalization and Adaptive Personality Characteristics

Work-Life Balance Practices and Teacher Performance in Public Secondary Schools in Kenya

The role of distance education in teachers' work-life balance

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