Business Research: Work-Life Balance, Employee Engagement and Policies

This report examines the critical connection between work-life balance and employee engagement. The author aims to investigate how flexible working schedules, leave policies, and alternative work arrangements impact employee engagement, absenteeism, and turnover rates. The research involves a survey to assess employee perceptions and preferences regarding work-life initiatives. The report also highlights the importance of ethical considerations in data collection. The goal is to identify effective strategies that organizations can implement to improve employee engagement and overall organizational success. The research utilizes a survey to assess employee perceptions and preferences regarding work-life initiatives.

Running head: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODS
Business Research Methods
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The human resources of an organization are more important than the financial resources,
as their productivity and engagement levels determine sustainability of the organizational
success. However, since most of the companies operate in a highly competitive market,
professional burnout, stress, and inability to strike balance between professional and personal life
affect employee performance in a negative way. Hence, by undertaking this research project, I
wish to develop my knowledge as well as add to the academic literature regarding how
organizations can adopt effective work life policies that can enhance employee engagement, and
reduce employee absenteeism and high employee turnover rates.
Through the research, I wish to learn and critically analyse the relation existing between
work life balance and employee engagement. I wish to understand whether flexible working
schedule, leave policies and alternative work arrangements are capable of increasing employee
engagement rather than mere financial incentives such as pay raise and bonuses.
By undertaking this research successfully, I wish to test my research skill, analytical skill
as well as reflective skill. In order to complete the research, I wish to undertake a survey to be
conducted on the employees of an organization, and investigate if work life initiatives really
motivate them or not. Besides, this will also help me test my communication skills as I would
require to interact with many respondents. Next, the ability of analysing and interpreting the data
and deriving the conclusion, will help me evaluate my analytical and reflection skills.
I am looking forward to be able to successfully complete the research and deduce exactly
which are the most effective work-life initiatives that an employee expects out of his
organization. This will definitely help in increasing the level of employee engagement at
workplace.

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As such I am not anxious about anything. However, I think I need to be more aware of
the ethical considerations which I should take into serious account, while collecting the data
through the survey conduction.

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Reference List:
Blumberg, B.F., Cooper, D.R. and Schindler, P.S., 2014. Business research methods. McGraw-
hill education.
Bryman, A. and Bell, E., 2015. Business research methods. Oxford University Press, USA.