LBEF RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Author(s):Anjan Mani Poudel, Dr Prity Birla

Abstract:Work-life challenges are a form of inter-role conflict in which role pressures from the work and family domains are incompatible to one another. Recent studies highlight increasing imbalance between work and family life experienced by individuals of different profession. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out the challenges to work life balance among nurses working in a private hospital. A descriptive cross sectional research design was used for the study. The study was conducted in various private hospitals and sample size was 342. Non-Probability Purposive sampling technique was used for the selection of population and sample. A semi structured self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. The findings of the study showed that most of the respondents were in the age group of 18 to 25. Most of the respondents followed Hinduism. More than of the respondents had educational qualification of bachelor degree. Over half of the populations were unmarried. Among all the variables work load have a significant relation with work life balance. Based on the findings of this study, it concludes that nurses are facing challenges to balance their work life. Workload tends to influence this imbalance and high intensity of workload tends to deteriorate the work life among the nurses. But other factors like stress, supervisor support and organization policy do not tend to influence work life balance.

Keywords:Challenges of Work-life, Work Life balance, Workload, Nurses