Influence of Work-Life Balance on Organizational Productivity

This research project investigates the influence of work-life balance and enrichment experiences on organizational productivity, with a specific focus on IKEA. The study examines various approaches to work-life balance, including active, passive, beneficial, and harmful balance, while also identifying key barriers to implementation, such as unrealistic demands and unsupportive relationships. The research employs a qualitative methodology, utilizing an interpretivism philosophy and an inductive approach, with questionnaires as the primary data collection method. The literature review explores existing research on work-life balance, organizational productivity, and the benefits of supporting employees' well-being. The research findings, based on primary and secondary data, are analyzed and interpreted to determine the relationship between work-life balance, enrichment experiences, and organizational productivity. The report concludes with recommendations for improving work-life balance practices and enhancing employee well-being to boost productivity, along with suggestions for alternative research methodologies. The study emphasizes the importance of work-life balance in fostering employee satisfaction, reducing stress, and ultimately, improving organizational performance within the context of IKEA's corporate culture.

RESEARCH PROJECT

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Present report taken into consideration on influence of approaches of work-life balance
and enrichment experiences on organizational productivity. This research will be stated about the
different approaches related to the work-life balance and enrichment experiences and its impact
on the organizational productivity. In literature review, information will be collected by using
secondary sources like books, articles, websites, internet sources and others. In research
methodology, different tools and techniques will be used such as research philosophy,
approaches, data collection methods, sampling and others. These all are helpful in collecting and
analyzing the data in an effective manner for getting positive outcomes.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.........................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................4
LITERATURE REVIEW............................................................................................................................6
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY................................................................................................................9
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.......................................................................................13
RESEARCH OUTCOMES.......................................................................................................................25
CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS............................................................................................27
REFLECTION & RECOMMENDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY......28
REFERENCES..........................................................................................................................................29

Title: Influence of approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experiences on
organisational productivity.
INTRODUCTION
Background of Research
Work- life balance is mainly used to explain balance that working person requires among
allotted work time and some other life aspects. It is state of the equilibrium under which the
personal life demands, family life and professional life is equal. Enrichment experience is related
to make the richer and also gain better experience to enhance quality, desirable and also
ingredient experience that will help sin enrich the staff members at workplace (Barber, Conlin
and Santuzzi, 2019). IKEA is multinational group that designs as well as sells the kitchen
appliances, ready to assemble furniture and the home accessories. It was founded in year 1943 by
Ingvar Kamprad. In IKEA, work life balance extends from Swedish cultural roots of company
and its main focus is on its co- workers in order to develop corporate culture.
Rationale of Research
The primary reason why this study is to be carried out and effectively related to the
effects on organizational effectiveness of approaches to work-life balance and enhancement
experiences. In addition, it allows researchers to significantly increase their expertise in working
life balance methods and to perform research in a well developed and efficient way, in addition
to various diverse techniques as well as the tools. This is further established that current research
can be carried out as an academic objective which will help students learn about the balance
between work and life (Beham and et. al., 2017).
Aim
“To investigate influence of approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experiences on
organizational productivity. A study on IKEA.
Objectives
 To identify the approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experience.

 To ascertain the major barriers to implementation of work- life balance and enrichment
experiences
 To investigate relationship between work life balance and enrichment experience and
organizational productivity.
Questions
 What are the various approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experience?
 What are main barriers to implementation of work- life balance and enrichment
experiences?
 What is relationship between work life balance and enrichment experience and
organizational productivity?

LITERATURE REVIEW
This part of research described the published data regarding the specific subject area
within given time period. In literature review, data has been collected by using the secondary
sources such as published list of articles, papers and several other records or sources identify the
present and past state of knowledge. This is a summary of what other researchers wrote on
similar subjects, classification and evaluation. Literature review is therefore described as a
thorough and systematic, wide-ranging, critical review of scholarly publications, audio visual
material, unidentified print materials or personal communications. Under this part, information
and data about the different approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experience.
Various approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experience
According to opinion of Johanna Rantanen, Ulla Kinnunen, Saija Mauno and Kati,
Tillemann (2020) Work-life balance explains prototype of splitting the energy and time among
work and some of the other necessary life aspects. IKEA organisation enable the staff members
to attain the work- life balance to motivating the staff members so that they can work effectively
and this also provides the enrichment experience to employees. There are different approached
related to work- life balance and enrichment experience and these are active balance, passive
balance, beneficial balance and harmful balance. Staff members belonging to every kind are
mainly expected to vary qualitatively from the each other in context to role engagement and
psychological functioning (Sirgy and Lee, 2016). The balance of work and life means balancing
stress with family, friends and self's everyday pressures. Existing workers expect more flexibility
and greater say in their job environment. Balanced workers appear to feel more inspired and less
depressed at work, which increases business profitability and decreases employee-management
disputes. IKEA have a reputation for supporting the balance between work and life are very
desirable for workers and can create a large pool of applicants for new jobs. Their retention rates
also appear to be higher, which results in less long-term preparation, loyalty and greater domestic
expertise. On the other hand, workplace that enables the staff member to attain the work life
balance is motivating along with gratifying to workers which makes happy. A happy employee
that requires the work life balance are attained mainly stay with manager and also more
productive.

Other than this, IKEA group welcome all the dimensions of diversity. Diverse workforce
is better for co- workers, customers and for IKEA business. Equality and Diversity policy of this
company stated that working with the differences aids IKEA growth as individual and as a
company. It believes gender equality is human right. IKEA Company believes in developing
work environment where all the co- workers feel respected, appreciates, welcomes, no matter
from where they come.
Barriers to implementation of work- life balance and enrichment experiences
On the basis of Dr. Mariette Jansen (2020) the main barrier to maintaining harmony in
working life and experiences of enrichment is that workers do not know the system. In fact,
management support is also one of the main obstacles to the quality of working life. Other than
this, there are some barriers related to execution work- life balance and enrichment experiences
given below:
Unrealistic demands- Demands which arise at workplace and the life throw can easily
mount up towards incredible levels. The unreasonable demand at workplace impacted the
personal time like technology overload and weekend meetings are mentioned as more pressure.
Demands for personal life add to working conditions, when time is needed to accommodate
family or friends and to consume in working hours.
Unsupportive relationships- At the workplace, unsupportive relationships and aversive
behavior developing complex as well as unproductive work environment while making the
people to feel isolated. On the other hand, unsupportive relationship in personal life where on
one help to each other and developed unhappiness as well as frustration (Chan and et. al., 2016).
Relationship between work life balance and enrichment experience and organizational
productivity
On the basis of Larry Kim (2020), the work life balance is regarded as person who
monitors and manages life and career vision with success and satisfaction. Balance of work life
ensures that workers change the working style to best match between work and personal areas
and to achieve sustainable growth and productivity in the long term. The work life balance
reduces the experience for stress employees. If employees spend the majority of days working
and feel as if they are ignoring other important elements of life, stress and misfortune will come

about. An employee who does not take time to look after himself ends up reducing their
productivity and efficiency (Sirgy and Lee, 2018). The work life balance and enhancement
experience and organizational efficiency are interrelated related. The balance of work life leads
an organisation successfully to boost its workers 'productivity and motivation. It also strengthens
the corporate reputation and keeps staff properly. Work- life balance is a situation where there is
less conflict situation responsibility of the home and work. The effective work life balance is
helpful in make improvement in the organisational as well as family relations. It is also helpful in
make improvement in efficiency of working and also employee’s performance. Other than this,
work- life balance provides the better enrichment experience to the staff members and this can
lead to eliminating work- life conflict. It makes improvement in job performance through making
the employees loyal, committed, and satisfied and also minimizing the employee’s turnover by
reducing the absenteeism.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The methodology of research refers to a method that investigators systematically address
a study issue. This is basically the systematic method by which researchers describe, analyze and
forecast the study principle in terms of their work (Graham and Dixon, 2017). There are some
useful methods in research methodology mention below:
Research philosophy- There has been interpretivism philosophy used because this is
based on the qualitative method and provides the better way to collection as well as analyse of
data (Jiang and Men, 2017).
Research approach- There has been inductive research approach used because it is
helpful in evaluating and interpreting information is used to evaluate information or work-life
balance and enrichment experiences.
Research choice- In conducting the present research, there has been qualitative method
used as a mono method. This research choice is effective in using because it provides the better
understanding regarding the work life balance and the enrichment experience (Khan and Fazili,
2016).
Research strategy- Questionnaire has been used as part of the business analysis to gather
information on the work-life balance and enrichment experiences. The key reason behind
questionnaire is chosen because it helps researchers collect relevant and accurate information and
data without requiring additional time and costs (Lee and Sirgy, 2018).
Data collection and analysis- There has been primary data collection method used as
developing questionnaire. The main reason behind using the questionnaire is that it provides the
opinions of the chosen respondents. Questionnaire mainly designed so that this would be
answered through the selected respondents in an easy manner. The benefits of using
questionnaire are that questions included in questionnaire can easily understand through
respondents with tabulation of results (Lee and Sirgy, 2018). On the other hand, for analysis of
data, Microsoft Excel used for presenting data graphically. Themes have been developed on the
basis of collected data.

There are two major types of secondary and primary data collection methods. The
researchers conducted a questionnaire to collect well-defined information in a primary data
collection section in order to meet current research requirements. The key data collection tool
used to create a questionnaire has been used (Nilsson, Blomqvist and Andersson, 2017). The key
reason behind the application of the primary method is that it offers new and reliable knowledge
on the particular subject. At the other hand, research has been collected through secondary
methods and the researchers will use books, websites, online articles, magazines, etc.
Time horizon- In conducting the present investigation, there has been cross- sectional
time horizon used because in this time was use in this investigation over specific period of time.
Other than this, focus of the cross sectional time horizon is one current situation.

Sampling- There are two sampling methods that are called probability and non-
probability. All methods are effective but probability sampling is used in order to perform
current investigations, as it allows an investigator to pick a sample from a larger and random
population. 50 respondents were selected through this sampling technique (Ollier-Malaterre,
2016).
Research Ethics- As an investigation consists the primary investigation; the research
ethics were mainly applied to assure that outcomes of an investigation are mainly included to be
relevant and robust. Anonymity, confidently and informed consent are the main ethical principles
which researcher should be followed by conducting an investigation. For the informed consent, it
included giving respondents included in primary research with proper understanding of research
objective and also enabling potential respondents to participating in primary. For anonymity,
details or information of participants to primary information are not mainly included or not
linked to primary research outcomes (Pradhan, 2016). On the other hand, in confidentiality
outcome of research are shared only with those who have stake in outcomes and also a part of
Investigation in particular capacity.

Research Limitation- The research limitation included in present study is time for the
completion of work as well as ability of investigator to involve large sample size for conducting
primary investigation for completion time. Investigator was limited timing guidelines for
finishing the research with all parts to study that need to be completed as well as included in
specified period of time for research work. In context to this, for ability of an investigation to
involve large sample size for primary Research, Limited period of time for finishing means that
an investigator had to allot enough time for the each part of research to be worked effectively
(Nilsson, Blomqvist and Andersson, 2017). Resulting time for conducting primary research
limited responses attained through an investigator for questionnaire. An investigator was
likewise impacted through identification of questionnaire respondents and using random
sampling method provided for determines issue.

DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
It is an essential aspect of the research that lets researchers interprets relevant test
findings or tests. The quantitative data collection method is used to examine the valid output and
content analysis is used by the researcher for the analysis of such information. In present
investigation, there will be a range of themes on each and every problem which helps to easily
evaluate quantitative data. Several steps were taken to analyze data in quantitative form by
researchers. Such measures include frequency table planning, creation of accurate graphs, and
quantitative information analysis. Such measures should enable work to produce accurate and
reliable outcomes in less time.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Email:
Quantitative Questions
Q1) Do you have understanding about work life balance and enrichment experience?
a) Yes
b) No
Q2) What are the benefits of work life balance in an organisation?
a) Increased productivity
b) Lower absenteeism
c) Greater employee motivation
Q3) Does work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the organisational
productivity?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) In which manner, work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the
productivity of IKEA organisation?
a) Positive manner

b) Negative manner
Q5) What are the necessary components of the work life balance and enrichment
experience that develop positive impact on organisational productivity?
a) Time management
b) Stress management
c) Managing change
Q6) What different approaches IKEA can be used in managing the work life balance at
workplace?
a) Active balance
b) Beneficial balance
c) Harmful balance
Q7) What are the different factors which affecting the work- life balance and enrichment
experience?
a) Job Satisfaction
b) Work Stress
c) Absenteeism
Q8) What are the issues faced by IKEA in implementation of work- life balance and
enrichment experiences at workplace?
a) Lack of resources
b) Unrealistic demands
c) Unsupportive relationships
Q9) What are the different ways for maintaining the work- life balance?
a) Set work hours
b) Manage time
c) Set goals and priorities
Qualitative Questions
Q10) Recommend some ways to overcome from the work- life balance issues.
Q11) As per your opinion, what benefits IKEA can get by maintaining work- life balance?
DATA SHEET

Q1) Do you have understanding about work life balance and enrichment
experience?
Frequency
a) Yes 35
b) No 15
Q2) What are the benefits of work life balance in an organisation? Frequency
a) Increased productivity 35
b) Lower absenteeism 15
c) Greater employee motivation 35
Q3) Does work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the
organisational productivity?
Frequency
a) Yes 28
b) No 12
Q4) In which manner, work life balance and enrichment experience
impact on the productivity of IKEA organisation?
Frequency
a) Positive manner 30
b) Negative manner 20
Q5) What are the necessary components of the work life balance and
enrichment experience that develop positive impact on organisational
productivity?
Frequency
a) Time management 20
b) Stress management 15
c) Managing change 15
Q6) What different approaches IKEA can be used in managing the work
life balance at workplace?
Frequency
a) Active balance 10
b) Beneficial balance 20
c) Harmful balance 20
Q7) What are the different factors which affecting the work- life balance
and enrichment experience?
Frequency
a) Job Satisfaction 25
b) Work Stress 10

c) Absenteeism 15
Q8) What are the issues faced by IKEA in implementation of work- life
balance and enrichment experiences at workplace?
Frequency
a) Lack of resources 10
b) Unrealistic demands 20
c) Unsupportive relationships 20
Q9) What are the different ways for maintaining the work- life balance? Frequency
a) Set work hours 10
b) Manage time 25
c) Set goals and priorities 15
THEME 1: Understanding about work life balance and enrichment experience
Q1) Do you have understanding about work life balance and
enrichment experience?
Frequency
a) Yes 35
b) No 15
35
15
a) Yes
b) No
Interpretation: From the above mention graph, it has been analysed that 35 respondents have
understanding regarding work life balance and the enrichment experience. According to them,
work life balance is lack of the opposition among the work and other role of life. This is state of

equilibrium under which the demand of the personal and professional life are equal. The system
divides one's energy and time between work and other essential aspects of one's life. Workers'
encouragement and appreciation for their job that helps workers to find a work-life balance. 15
remaining respondents are not aware about it.
THEME 2: Benefits of work life balance
Q2) What are the benefits of work life balance in an organisation? Frequency
a) Increased productivity 15
b) Lower absenteeism 15
c) Greater employee motivation 20
15
15
20
a) Increased productivity
b) Lower absenteeism
c) Greater employee
motivation
Interpretation: As per the mention graph, this has been stated that there are some benefits of
work life balance. According to 15 respondents that work life balance helps in increasing the
productivity of all organisation as this motivate employees. If the employee will manage the
work in an effective manner and also manage the personal and professional work in an effective
manner then it enhances the productivity of company. There are 15 respondents which said that
work life balance helps in reducing the absenteeism of employees and they will work hard. They
said that if workers can able to manage their personal life and professional work in a better
manner then this helps in reducing the absenteeism and also motivate towards the work for

attaining the specific objectives within given time period. There are 20 remaining respondents
which are agreed with employee motivation. Motivation is helpful in enhancing employees
performance and organisational productivity.
THEME 3: Work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the organisational
productivity
Q3) Does work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the
organisational productivity?
Frequency
a) Yes 38
b) No 12
38
12
a) Yes
b) No
Interpretation: As per opinion of 38 respondents that work life balance and the enrichment
experience develops on the organisational productivity. In this, employee manages their personal
and professional life in equally and also gives their better performance then this helps in
enhancing the productivity of company. There are 12 remaining respondents which are not
agreeing with given statement.
THEME 4: Work life balance and enrichment experience impact on the productivity
Q4) In which manner, work life balance and enrichment experience
impact on the productivity of IKEA organisation?
Frequency
a) Positive manner 30

b) Negative manner 20
30
20
a) Positive manner
b) Negative manner
Interpretation: According to 30 respondents that work life balance and the enrichment
experience develop the positive impact on the company is this helps in balancing the personal
and professional life of employees and provides them better experience. From this they can focus
on their work. 20 respondents said that work life experience and enrichment experience develops
negative impact on the productivity of IKEA firm.
THEME 5: Components of the work life balance and enrichment experience that develop
positive impact
Q5) What are the necessary components of the work life balance and
enrichment experience that develop positive impact on organisational
productivity?
Frequency
a) Time management 20
b) Stress management 15
c) Managing change 15

20
15
15
a) Time management
b) Stress management
c) Managing change
Interpretation: The present graph stated that there are some components related to work life
balance and enrichment experience that develop positive impact on organisational productivity.
According to 20 respondents that time management is a main component of work life balance
and enrichment experience. It is necessary for employee to manage the time on the basis of
activities so that they cannot face any difficulty in managing the time. As per opinion of 15
respondents that managing the strength is necessary for the work life balance as well as given in
the attachment experience at workplace. 15 remaining respondents are agreeing with managing
change component. Change provides the benefits to the employees and also providing the better
experience to them. So, there is a need to employee to managing the change at workplace in an
effective manner.
THEME 6: Approaches IKEA can be used in managing the work life balance
Q6) What different approaches IKEA can be used in managing the
work life balance at workplace?
Frequency
a) Active balance 10
b) Beneficial balance 20
c) Harmful balance 20

10
20
20
a) Active balance
b) Beneficial balance
c) Harmful balance
Interpretation: There are different approached which IKEA can be used for managing the work
life balance and getting enrichment experience. According to 10 respondents that active balance
is a main approaches that IKEA organisation can be used in order to manage in the work life
balance in an organisation. There are 20 respondents which are agreeing with beneficial balance
approach. There are remaining 20 respondents which said that harmful balance is an approach
that organisation can be used.
THEME 7: Factors affecting the work- life balance and enrichment experience
Q7) What are the different factors which affecting the work- life
balance and enrichment experience?
Frequency
a) Job Satisfaction 25
b) Work Stress 10
c) Absenteeism 15

25
10
15
a) Job Satisfaction
b) Work Stress
c) Absenteeism
Interpretation: According to mention graph, there are some factors which affecting work- life
balance and enrichment experience. On the basis of 25 respondents that job satisfaction is a main
factor that impact on the work life balance of employees as well as their enrichment experience.
It is necessary that employees should be satisfied from its job so that they can work in an
effective manner and also able to manage their work life experience and also get the proper
enrichment experience. In case if they are not satisfied from their job then this factor can impact
on personal as well as professional life of an employee. According to 10 respondents that stress
about the work also impacting the work life balance of employees. They said that if employee
will feel stress then it cannot able to focus on their work and this reduces the productivity of an
organisation. 15 respondents said that Increase absenteeism is a main factor that negatively
impact on the work life Balance and enrichment experience. According to them enhance
absenteeism stated that employee is not focus on their work and also not able to manage the
personal as well as professional life.
THEME 8: Issues faced by IKEA in implementation of work- life balance and enrichment
experiences
Q8) What are the issues faced by IKEA in implementation of work- life
balance and enrichment experiences at workplace?
Frequency
a) Lack of resources 10
b) Unrealistic demands 20

c) Unsupportive relationships 20
10
20
20
a) Lack of resources
b) Unrealistic demands
c) Unsupportive
relationships
Interpretation: On the basis of mention graph, there are some issues faced by IKEA regarding
maintaining the work- life balance and enrichment experiences at workplace. According to
opinion of 10 respondents that lack of resources in order to execution of work life balance at
workplace. They said that not having the enough resources are impacting about organising the
life. On the basis of 20 respondents that unrealistic demand of employees is a main factor that
arise issues in execution of the work life balance and the enrichment experience. According to
them, unreasonable demand at the workplace, arrangement which eating in personal time like
overload technology and weekend meeting are arising the more pressure. There are 20 remaining
respondent which are agree with unsupported relationships. Unsupportive relationship
developing unproductive working environment whole making the employees feel more isolated.
THEME 9: Ways for maintaining the work- life balance
Q9) What are the different ways for maintaining the work- life
balance?
Frequency
a) Set work hours 10
b) Manage time 25
c) Set goals and priorities 15

10
25
15
a) Set work hours
b) Manage time
c) Set goals and priorities
Interpretation: On the basis of mention graph, this has been stated that there are many different
or effective ways through which work life balance can be maintain in a significant manner. 10
respondents said that employees should set the working hours and manage the work effectively.
On the basis of this, there is a need to employee to manage their working hours on the basis of
their work so that they cannot face any issues related to completion of work at workplace. 25
respondents are agreeing with managing the personal and work time. Employee requires their
personal and professional time so that they can maintain focus on their work and also give the
time to family. There are 15 respondents which are agreed with set the priorities and objectives.
Qualitative questions
Q10) Recommend some ways to overcome from the work- life balance issues.
Interpretation: There are some respondents said that employees should manage their time
according to their work or activities. This will help them to managing the work life balance. On
the other hand, some respondents said that employees need to set the priorities or deadlines and
work accordingly.
Q11) As per your opinion, what benefits IKEA can get by maintaining work- life balance?
Interpretation: As per opinion of some respondents that from maintaining the work- life
balance, employees will focus on their and they can able to attain target within given time period.

Other than this, some respondents said that managing work life balance helps in enhance
employee’s performance along with the organisation.

RESEARCH OUTCOMES
Various approaches of work-life balance and enrichment experience
It has been examined from the information mentioned in literature review that works life
balance and the employee enrichment experience both are the necessary aspects in business. It is
related to balance among the personal and professional life of an employee. Different approaches
of work life balances have been discussed like active balance, harmful balance, passive balance
and beneficial balance. These all are effective in managing the work life balance of employees
and enrichment experience.
As contrary to this, Work- life balance is helpful in managing the work of the employees
in context to personal as well as professional manner. From managing this employee can get the
enrichment experience and this can develop the positive impact on the organisational
productivity. Other than this, sometime if the employees are not able to manage their work and
face complexities then this develops the negative impact on them and organisational
productivity.
Barriers to implementation of work- life balance and enrichment experiences
There has been discussed about the barriers or issues which are faced through company in
executing of work life balance in better manner. They face the issues related to Unrealistic
demands and Unsupportive relationships. The issues or barriers develop the negative impact on
experience of employees along with the organizational performance.
It has been argued that work life challenges could apply to the life or work situations. It is
necessary to employee to deal with all the challenges in a better manner related to work life
balance as well as enrichment experience. There is a need to employee to set the prioritise goal
that need to attain firstly. On the other hand, employees should accept situation and also manage
the change effectively.
Relationship between work life balance and enrichment experience and organizational
productivity

This has been analysed from literature review part that work life balance stated that
workers adjust workplaces to better match work with specific fields and to achieve sustainable
growth and efficiency in the long term. It has been studied that there is a direct link between
work-life balance and experience enhancement and business performance. The organizational
balance helps a company boost efficiency and morale of its employees successfully. It also
enhances the image of the organization and retains its employees.
As contrary to give statement that sometimes employee feel frustrated from the work and
not able to manage its personal as well as professional work. This develops the negative impact
on the organisational productivity. So, there is a need to management to give the work to
employees according to their experience or interest area so that they can able to perform and
manage the work life balance along with the organisational productivity.
Findings to Stakeholders
Stakeholders involve those which are supportive for research and also those who are less
supportive or interested in it. In an investigation, the main purpose of stakeholder analysis to
determine the project stakeholders and also about their interest in project. The stakeholders of
research consists employees, customers, researcher, management and other stakeholders. Under
this, there is a need to an investigator or an organisation to provide all the information and
outcomes about the research investigation because they are interested in project because they are
interested in outcomes and also involved in the research project.

CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS
Conclusion
From the above mention report it has been concluded that present report given the
information regarding work life balance and the enrichment experience. These both aspects
develop impact on the organisational productivity. To collect the data and information in
literature review, there have been secondary sources used such as books, articles and others. For
collection of data by using primary method, there has been questionnaire developed and fill from
50 chosen respondents.
Recommendations
The present research has been taken into consideration on approached regarding the work
life balance and the enrichment experience. Regarding this, there are some recommendations
mentions below:
 It is necessary for company to give the break to their staff members so that they can take
rest and also prepare themselves about doing any activity in an effective manner. From
this, employee can able to work effectively and also maintaining the work life balance in
an effective manner.
 It is necessary for employee to stay organised when this comes to routine activities.
Employee can organise the daily basis activities through making to-do list. This helps in
save the time and the employee will feel relaxed.
 This is required for company to allot the work to staff members that is suitable for them
or according to their interest area. From this, employees will perform their work or
activities in a better manner and also not to worry about the work or develop stress
anymore.

REFLECTION & RECOMMENDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Reflection
The current study is focused Influence of approaches of work-life balance and enrichment
experiences on organizational productivity. In this way, I am glad to undertake this study by
adding entire ethical aspects or standards to ensure that they are more true and accurate. As a
researcher, I have used a variety of techniques and methods to obtain reliable data and
information. In this present investigation, I used the qualitative methodology because this helps
in provide the theoretical information regarding the particular subject area. I used the inductive
research approach as this helps in analysing the opinions of different researcher and give the
positive outcomes. For collection of data, there has been primary method of data collection used
and developed questionnaire in it. There has been questionnaire developed for collecting the data
from large sample size in order to get the relevant as well as reliable information within less time
period. However, this work is also important to me by improving my study skills such as time
management, data collection, interpretation of data, literature review etc.
Besides that, I have faced other difficulties in carrying out the investigation such as not
having enough time, lack of money or resources and several others. Such obstacles have a
negative impact on the study findings as a whole. To address these issues, I was given a
comprehensive strategy that involves all events or tasks that are performed successfully and
efficiently in completing the full dissertation. This makes it easier for me to draw accurate and
reasonable conclusions.
Alternative methodology
In the present investigation, questionnaire has been used as methodology because it helps
me in gathering the information and data within limited period of time. It is because the fund and
the time that is provided to me is not enough, but as the current subject was broad, I needed to
gather data from group of people so that the actual evidence or rationale of the investigation's
goals and objectives could be seen more easily. As an alternative methodology, interview can be
used. The key justification for the potential use of interviews is that they provide accurate and
relevant data on the area of research in future. It take more time and costly process.

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