Work-Life Balance As A Strategy For Improving Organizational Performance

This work examined Work-Life Balance as a strategy for improving organizational performance. Balancing the demands of profession and personal life has remained a growing concern for both employers and employees of deposit money banks which in turn has effect on organization’s stability which also affects their performance. The research hypotheses were: there is no positive and significant relationship between work leave programs and improvement of employees skills, Restrictive work hours and employees commitment have no positive relationship and there is no positive relationship between telecommuting and speedy service delivery. Survey design was adopted, the population of the study was 146 and Taro yammane formula was used to derive 107 as the sample size for the study. Simple regression was used in testing of the hypotheses and the result revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between work leave programme and improvement of employee’s skills, restrictive work hours has a positive relationship with employee’s commitment and telecommuting has a strong and positive relationship with speedy service delivery. Based on the findings of the study the researcher concluded that work-life balance play a crucial role in improving organizational performance. It was recommended among others that management need to encourage the work practice that allows employees to perform their job task outside the traditional office space as it helps to bring services to the door step of customers.