Managing Family and Work: The Search for the Ideal Work-life Balance

Abstract

Employers in the food and beverage (F&B) industry require many high-skilled and well-trained professionals but workers are often exploited in the industry. Aiming to answer if personal health, personal time management, and family matters affect the work-life balance (WLB) of F&B employees, which family matters played a mediator role. The data of 108 responses was analysed through the PROCESS analysis and Sobel's Test. The regression analysis shows that family matters are a mediator of the relationship between personal health and personal time management and WLB indicating that the variable is vital in ensuring a healthy WLB among F&B’s employees. Keywords: Family matters; Personal health; Personal time management; Quality of life eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i20.3477

The Determinants of Work-Life Balance among Nurses in Public Hospitals in Klang Valley

“…On the other hand, a study among married Pakistani women professionals revealed that long work hours and rigid schedules increase the likelihood of female employees having work-family conflicts (Jostell & Hemlin, 2018;Khursheed et al, 2019). This finding confirms recent research findings that demonstrate a substantial beneficial relationship between Personal Time Management and work-life balance (Saad et al, 2022), thus, to further investigate the association of time management and work-life balance among nurses in public hospitals, this hypothesis is developed. H2: There is a positive relationship between time management and work-life balance among nurses in public health institutions.…”