Influence of Work Life Balance on Employees Performance: Moderated by Transactional Leadership

Abstract

University managements have the responsibility to ensure that their employees’ work-life balance is improved, not only for the mere compliance of laws and statutes but rather to mitigate the pitfalls of high turnover and high health care costs associated with work-family conflicts, which are proven to be financially disadvantageous over putting into place a healthy human resources recruitment and retention strategy. The present study investigates the influence of work life balance on employee performance in education sector of Pakistan. The study also investigates the moderating effect of transactional leadership on relationship between work life balance and employee performance. The study used sample of 150 respondents from eight universities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The regression and moderation analysis are performed by using the SPSS 22. The findings of study reveal the work life balance has significant positive effect on employee performance. The results also present that transactional leadership has significant moderating effect. The study recommends that management of universities should consider the effect of work life balance while making polices about leave and working load etc. The findings of study have important policy implications for policy makers and government to increase the employee performance.

Keywords: Work Life, Performance, Pakistan, SPSS, Transactional