The Relationship Between Workload, Time Management and Salary on Employee Work-Life Balance in A Private Company

Abstract

It is widely acknowledged that maintaining a healthy work-life balance is essential in both corporate practice and academic study. This is a case study and was conducted at Education Malaysia Global Services (EMGS) a private company. The purpose of this research is to examine the independent variables (i.e. workload, time management and salary) that affect employee's work-life balance, which was defined by working environment conflict on the people employed in EMGS, Malaysia. The study employed quantitative research techniques and 108 questionnaires were completed and returned. The findings of the study found that hypotheses H1 and H3 are rejected since there is no significant relationship between workload and work-life-balance and also there is no significant relationship between salary and work-life-balance. However, current study found that there is a significant positive relationship between time management and work-life-balance therefore to accept H2. In addition, current study also found that all independent variables (i.e. workload, time management and salary) are not constant predictors of work-life-balance at EMGS.