An Analysis of Work-Life Balance in the Healthcare Industry

Both business practices and scholarly study have significant effects on work-life balance. According to the research, work-life balance is an important issue which affects well-being because the family and profession both are need to keep on priority for most of the persons. Any conflict amongst the responsibilities of work and family life has a detrimental effect on the welfare of the employee. The key aim of this paper is to examine the effects on work-life balance as it can be understood that the impact of family work conflict and work-family conflict on the health of persons employed in the healthcare sector. Levels of family's happiness and well-being has measured by using psychological distress and work satisfaction. The data analysis revealed that healthcare employees are more stressed than other professions, especially nurses and paramedical staff. Because of late shifts and overtime, they are less motivated. The salary satisfaction level among healthcare professionals is satisfactory. They are not happy with the rewards and festival bonus that were given to them. However, night shift and overtime are two factors that make life difficult for healthcare employees. It is not very easy to make a healthy work-life balance because working shifts significantly interfere with taking care of your family and your job. If taken proper measures by the healthcare organisations these problems can get resolved.