Organizational Behavior and Work-Life Balance

This essay discusses the impact of organizational behavior on work-life balance and employee satisfaction. It also suggests ways to maintain a balance between personal and professional life.

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The following essay is written over “The organizational consequences of work-life balance have
become an important issue for organizations today. It is believed that balancing a successful
career with a personal/family life can be challenging and impact on an individual’s satisfaction in
his/her work”. The essay states how the organizational work consequences have affected an
individual’s life. It is explained that the idea of maintaining balance between work life and
personal life is getting difficult for an individual. Therefore, it also leaves an impact on the
satisfaction of work.
The term organizational behavior is a used for the study of human behavior in an organizational
circumstance. It is an interface amongst human behavior and the organizational. It is a fact that
the working culture of an organization affects the daily life and mental conditions of the
employees. When the researches study organizational behavior they prefer it to be conducted
within the organizational surroundings and job role. The main objective of the organizational
behavior theory is to formalize a new and better conceptualization in organization life (Lăzăroiu,
2015).
With the growing demands of people, competition for the organizations has increased. There are
large numbers of firms who are dealing in same sector; hence the consumer/customer has to
choose the best out of rest organization. In this race of becoming best and to meet the needs of
the customer, whole burden lends upon the shoulders of employees. This is because a large
number employees working in both private and public sector suffers with lesser job satisfaction.
In order to keep a balance and sustain in the company, employees often disregard the
satisfaction, which they want in their personal life. In order to compete with other organizations,
an organization should make sure that the employees who are working for them should get a
good personal life along with growing or stabilized professional life (Borkowski, 2015). An
employee, who is suffering with the personal problems, is in stress and tension cannot be as
productive as a healthy employee who has a balance between both personal and professional life.
The organizational consequences influence the personal and professional well- being of an
individual in various ways. Firstly, the work pressure at organization affects the individual
mental and physical health; therefore, it is a matter of concern for the organization to maintain a
work-life balance for the employees. A well-managed, settled and stress free employee can work
more efficiently than the one who is suffering with mental stress. In today era, employees are

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creative, punctual and hardworking; they are always on the position to act and behave the way
organization wants. Hence, this capable and strong human capital force chooses the
organizations as there work place, which is providing additional benefits to them. For instance,
numerous organizations have introduced the concept of weekend trip with the corporate family
and sometimes with the personal family. These small outings freshens the minds of employees
and provide them a new zeal to work. A healthy organizational structure is necessary for the
overall development of quality work force. Effective organizations provide prospects to its
employees to develop new productive skills, which will add on to their performance. An
organization should focus mission planning with the employees, this gives enthusiasm to the
employees. The vision, goals company’s major objectives should be discussed within
organization and these objectives should be clearly explained to the employees so that they can
build a strong working plan to achieve objectives on time. Firms must take sharp steps to ensure
that the employees must support each other during tough times apart from engaging in a cut-
throat competition. Competition among the employees of same organization gives birth to
workplace politics which is neither beneficial for the company nor for the employees
(Musringudin, et al., 2017).
Work life balance was a term coined in America in the year 1986 it gained popularity in the
1990’s when the book ‘The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure’ written
by Juliet Schor were published. This book exemplified that how the changing pattern of working
has gave birth to unending demands on the people that they have left with very little time for
leisure. Some of the major factors contributing to increased interest in work life balance are the
rising competition among firms, workforce getting older, technological advancement and its
consequences. The Organizational behaviour supports to cultivate an understanding of approach
and performance of employees and the organization at same time. There are large amount of
factors that influences organizational behaviour like the culture of company, its policies, the
working structure etc. All these factors strongly affect the employee’s productivity and their
nature of commitment to the organization (Podsakoff, 2018)
It is believed that balancing a successful career with a personal/family life can be challenging
and impact on an individual’s satisfaction in his/her work. The following statement is correct in
today’s scenario, people these days are that much indulged in their work that they forget to pay
attention towards their family. Although, it is difficult to maintain a balance between the

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personal and professional life in present living conditions. Nowadays, people are more concerned
about there professional well-being rather than their personal happiness. Money and the race of
winning from competitors have made the employees over engaged in work. Thus, it can be said
that it is difficult to balance a successful career with personal life. There are some of the ways,
which may help an individual to maintain a balance between the personal and professional life
(Heinitz, 2018).
Firstly, an individual should analyze his strength; this will make his working style faster and
easier. Along with this prioritizing the time is another aspect, which can be helpful in, maintain
balance. Time management is one of the most required elements in an individual’s life. He
should be managed enough so that he can make out some time with the family. A person should
be well- managed so that he can draw out time from his professional hustle bustle for the health
and other necessary matters. The quote “Work is worship” should be followed but not to the
extent where it starts making imbalance in the personal life (Osland, et al., 2015).
Proper working strategy or plans should be developed for instance; an individual should work
within limited hours. He or the organization can set this as well. This will help in firstly
maintaining the work life better by reducing the stress of work and secondly the person will be
able to spend time with the family and friends. One of the most prominent way of making
balance between the personal and professional life is using technology. Technology is the best
way to utilize and save time (McShane & Glinow, 2017). People can work anytime from
anywhere, for instance, will moving in cab, tramps etc., work can also be managed from home.
Instead of driving to a meeting, use Skype or conferencing technologies like go to meeting are
time savers. It should be noted that while staying at home or with family such applications must
be turned off (Iedunote, 2019).
In order to succeed in personal and professional life people are required to step out to new
surroundings, sometimes meeting new people and introducing yourself to a completely new
environment changes the thinking perspectives and mindset. To keep0 a balance the employees
must plan trips with family on regular intervals, this will not only help the employee to get out of
that daily routine of office but also gives him an opportunity to spend time with beloved ones
(Roche, 2019).

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Therefore, it can be said that in today’s competitive and busy living culture organization must
have to keep a check over both the personal and professional life of their employees. The
organizations must develop a working culture where the employees feel free to work without
stress. As the stress, pressure and workloads on the employees hampers the overall productivity
of the company. Organizational behavior should be positive and encouraging that which will
help the employees to get successful in their professional life along with maintaining a balance in
their personal life.
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