Shodhsamhita : Journal of Fundamental & Comparative Research

Vol. VIII, No. 1(III) : 2022

ISSN: 2277-7067
A STUDY ON WORK LIFE BALANCE OF DOCTORS IN IMPACT OF KEY
VARIABLES
R. Priyadharshini, Research Scholar Department Of Management Studies (PG) Sri Ramakrishna
Arts and Science College Coimbatore.
Dr. Divya, Assistant Professor Department Of Management Studies (PG) Sri Ramakrishna Arts and
Science College Coimbatore.

ABSTRACT
Medical career is a noble work as doctors contribute to the happiness of the healthy society.
Maintaining the Doctor’s comfort would improve their successful and power full services to patients.
The study made to list the many factors impacting Work Life Balance of Doctors. The study envelops
320 doctors from various department of Medicine through a simple random method in Coimbatore.
The work-life balance was examined using variables such as the number of working hours, the number
of sleeping hours, and the number of hours spent with family and self. Using general data analysis and
statistical methodologies, the study aims to determine the impact of the aforementioned variables on
total work-life balance attainment. The findings demonstrated the power of using the chosen variable
data to determine work-life balance. The results of the study clearly reveal that medical professionals'
overall pleasure is directly connected to the number of hours they spend sleeping, spending time with
their families, and spending time on themselves. The study also discovered that total work-life balance
is inversely related to the number of hours they work.
Key words: Evaluation, Impact, work life balance

INTRODUCTION
Medicine is a career in which doctors' commitment to the health and well-being of others is
fundamental. In the past, careers in medicine required a selfless focus on others. Patients come first,
even if it means sacrificing a doctor's personal life. A physician, in particular, when practising in India,
he adjusts well to the long working hours and devotes a lot of time to it. Cure the patient's loss of a
significant amount of time on the job. He is occupied with his work every day. Work to alleviate human
suffering is a noble cause. As a result, he is regarded as a guardian to be fought. The sickness and
contribute to the sufferers' well-being Doctors are particularly prone to familial pressures since they
devote so much time to their work. They also face a lack of integrity in preserving home life. One of
the reasons for starting this research was because of this phenomenon. Work-Life Balance is the key
to a person's overall contentment, as evidenced by a wide range of social life in many countries. Many
professionals who work long hours are at risk of experiencing disruptions in their personal lives. This
background of Career-Life-Balance has motivated me to continue my current work.

WORK LIFE BALANCE

Work/Life Balance: a situation of balance in which a person's professional and personal obligations
are adjusted. Work-life balance refers to an employee's capacity to handle both individual and career
commitments while yet having enough time for relaxation and recreation. Each person may have a
different definition of their ideal work-life balance. The term "work-life balance" has a chameleon-
like quality to it. It has diverse meanings for various groups, and the word often varies depending on
the conversation's context and the speaker's point of view.
The above is working definitions of concepts related to work/life balance; some meanings overlap,
while others are still being developed.
 Work/family was a word that was more commonly used in the past than it is now. The current
tendency is to utilise names that incorporate the word work/life, either to give a larger work/life
connotation or to designate specific areas of assistance.

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 Work/family conflict: the tug-of-war between work and family obligations. The issue of
balancing professional commitments with personal/family responsibilities from the employee's
perspective.
 Employee perspective on work/life balance: the conundrum of balancing work duties and
personal obligations personal/family duties.
 From the perspective of the employer, work/life balance is: the difficulty of forming a
supporting corporation atmosphere where workers may focus on their duties while at work.
 Family-friendly perks: advantages that provide employees the freedom to manage their
personal and professional lives. familial obligations and also not being able to putting their
employment obligations in jeopardy
 Work/life programmes: These are programmes (typically financial or educational) that help
people balance their work and personal lives.
 Policies and procedures for work-life balance initiatives created by a non-profit organisation
with the objective of allow staff to do their tasks on time and on budget At the same time, allow
for personal/family matters to be addressed.
 Work/family culture: the extent to which an organization's culture affects its employees'
families.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE
1. “Source of conflict between work and family roles” – Greenheads and Beutell (1985)
Work family conflict is between two different area work and family are mutually non
compatible so they can meet two different demands. They face difficult to participate in the
family and vice versa.
2. “Managing work life balance and guide for HR in achieving organizational and individual
change” – clutter buck David (2003) They define that work life balance is most important
difficult faced by employees and managers. Employees are not willing to trade their life to
maintain their standard of living. Over work cause stress related absence, lack of retention,
poor creativity and unethical employee behaviour.
3. “Research methodology: methods and techniques” – Kothari (2004) Helps to make the
researcher to use different research methods and techniques.
4. “Evaluation of an open rota system in a Danish psychiatric hospital: a mechanism for
improving job satisfaction and work life balance” – Pryce Albertson, Nielsen (2006) They
tried to evaluate the impact of an open rota scheduling system on the health, work life balance
and job satisfaction of nurses working in psychiatric department. Nurses in the invention group
are more satisfied than the control group.
5. “Work life balance: A review of the meaning of the balance construct “ – kalliath, Thomas
brough, Paula – (2008)They explain six conceptualizations of work life balance
 Multiple roles
 Satisfaction
 Equity
 Fulfilment of role salience
 Conflict and facilitation
 Perceived and control
The study says that work life balance should include 2 points
 An individual prefers to spent more time in work area or non-work area.
 The balance may lead to growth in work area or non-work area.

6. “Work family conflict among female employee in Israeli hospital-Cohen Aaron and Liani
Efrat, (2009) The study explains how work effects family life and family life effects work.
Conclusion of the study determinants work variables are importantly impact of the work family
conflict and family work conflict than any other.
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7. “The Effects of Burnout and Supervisory Social Support on the Relationship between
Work-Family Conflict and Intention to Leave: A Study of Australian Cancer Workers’ -
Thanacoody P. Rani, Bartram Timothy, Gian Casimir, (2009) They try to compare the
effect of burnout and supervisory social support in relationship between work family conflict
and intention to leave of cancer workers in an Australian health care. The study says the
relationship between the work life conflict and intention to leave the organization. In higher
social supervisory medication framework is strong.
8. ‘The Role of Work-Life Balance Practices in order to Improve Organizational
Performance’- Lazar Ioan, Codruta Osoian, Patricia Ratiu, (2010) Strategic human
resource decision can improve individual and organizational performance through work life
balance initiative. Organizational benefits improve turnover and absenteeism so it lower
recruitment and training cost, improve productivity and work loyalty and improves
organizational image.
9. ‘Examining The Relationship of Work Life Balance, Job Satisfaction and Turnover in
Pakistan’- Malik Muhammad Imran, Gomez Solomon Fernando, Ahmad Mehboob, Saif
Muhammad Iqbal, (2010) The effects of work life balance and job satisfaction and turnover
intention of doctors was examined. Doctors who know to manage work and life is better in job
satisfaction.
10. ‘Developing and Testing a Model of Burnout at Work and Turnover Intensions among
Doctors in Pakistan’ - Malik, Zaheer, Khan, (2010) They explain impact of burnout in work
and turnover intension. The study says that there is no relationship between burnout at work
and work life balance of doctor. But there is relationship between work life balance and job
satisfaction. And also, study says job dissatisfaction depends on managing work and life
activity.
11. “Stress and Work/ life Balance: Insights for manager” -Newth David, (2011) The study
has explained how manager exposed to stress by standing behind the coal face occasionally
and recognizing how they feel and behave to others. This book teaches us how the manager
should be improving better control in life and work place.
12. ‘HR interventions for work life balance: evidences from organizations in India’-Baral R.,
Bhargava S., (2011) Family friendly policies should be in organization to implement socio
demographic, technological and economic change. The study says human resource manager
should show interest in implementing work life balance in BPO’s health care services and
software services.
13. Baral R., Bhargava S., (2011)- Choudhary Lata, Academic Director, ICMT Jodhpur,
(2011) Work life balance become issue for both gender because of work pressure, globalization
and technological advancement. All professional works and all industries work facing work
life balance issues.
14. ‘Work-Life Balance Interventions Prevalent in the Indian Industry’ -Gunavathy, J.S.,
(2011) In this study organizational policies and work life balance of the employee carried out
among cross section of leading company in Chennai responding equally in manifesting, IT and
service. Factors that affect work life balance are extended working hours, extensification in
work, poor boundary management.
15. ‘Work related stress and its anticipated solutions among post-graduate medical resident
doctors: A cross-sectional survey conducted at a tertiary municipal hospital in Mumbai,
India’ - Rajan, Bellare, (2011) The study was made on the work-related stress among the
resident doctors in post graduate in municipal hospital. The study says that stress in because of
inadequate hostel facilities and extra duties. Family and friends are only the stress buster and
reliver in hospital.
OBJECTIVES
 The goal of the study is to examine specific variables that affect work-life balance.
 Estimate their impact using looking at the effect and a few statistical approaches that are
appropriate for the data collection.
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SAMPLING
Coimbatore is one of India's fastest developing cities, with a big number of corporate and government
hospitals serving not just the state's residents but also those from all around South India. As a result, it
was thought desirable to investigate the work-life balance of the city's crucial health workforce. A list
of corporate hospitals was chosen, and the investigator worked with each hospital's HR management
to give the questionnaire to the doctors.
A simple random sampling approach was used to pick 320 medical physicians with a working
experience of 7-10 years who worked in corporate hospitals in Coimbatore. The doctors chosen were
between the ages of 30 and 50, and they represented a variety of medical specialties. General
physicians, orthopaedics, surgeons, paediatricians, dentists, psychiatrists, and other medical specialties
were among the 320 doctors in the sample.
TOOLS USED
The questionnaire was employed as the study's instrument. A total of 47 questions were included in
the survey. A collection of 20 questions was created using a 5-point scale ranging from strongly agree
(5) to strongly disagree (1), with just a few questions being yes or no.
SCORING METHOD ADOPTED
The questionnaire included both ranked and unranked categories, with 1 representing an exceptionally
high score for work-life balance and 5 representing a very bad score for work-life balance. The pros'
aggregate score was computed to see how they fared Individuals are doing well in terms of work-life
balance. The criterion for a reasonable score has been set at 90 points out of a possible total of 135
points (as the highest).
The following graph shows professional scoring, with just 25% of professionals rating high on work-
life balance and the remainder professions scoring low. The research wants to note out that work-life
balance is influenced by a variety of factors. A handful of the causes mentioned by medical experts
have been further investigated and are provided in the tables and graphs below.

below 90 above 90

Variable 1
1) No of working hours in normal day
The hours worked is a significant factor in determining work-life balance. There are two categories
in the database. One group consists of doctors who work less than 10 hours per day and others who
work more than 10 hours per day. The graph reveals that 163 doctors (51%) work for 10-12 hours
each day, with only a handful working for more than 12 hours every day. Long hours of labour
would have a negative influence on human performance and might be harmful to their physical
and mental health. Long work hours appear to be one of the most prominent factors contributing
to their poor work-life balance.
Variable 2
2) Number of sleeping hours per day
As a matter of fact, sleep is a crucial relaxation for everyone, and it gives the necessary healthiness
for the following day's job. Individuals that consistently push their sleeping hours will suffer from a
variety of physical and mental health issues, resulting in general inefficiency at work in the long term.
According to the data in the table above, 202 doctors (63 percent) have been getting little sleep and
have a poor work-life balance.
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Variable 3:
3)Number of hours spent on family and themself
3.1) Professionals missing quality time with family or friends because of pressure of work?
The quantity of time spent on family or personal life is another important aspect that has an impact on
overall work-life balance. It is frequently a direct variable that represents the professional's wish to
spend time with his or her family. Excessive job tiredness, which leads to stress and sadness, has been
shown in several studies to impact professionals who do not spend quality time with their families and
themselves.
Another way the data was examined and shown was that persons scored very poor on work life balance
only related to job pressure. Work pressure obviously stood out as the justification for being not willing
to spend time with the family. The same may be seen in the image above.
3.2) Time spent by medical professionals in updating domain knowledge
The domain specific question is specifically developed to assess professionals' desire to learn more
now and participate in altering medical advances and practises. Professionals that were able to focus
on this element appear to be more organised and well-planned in their careers. Individuals who are
well-prepared will be better able to balance their career and family obligations. The graph above shows
that professionals who spend time upgrading their knowledge appear to have a good work-life balance,
whereas professionals who seldom update their domain knowledge appear to have a poor work-life
balance.
Structural model
The model was chosen with the goal of discovering correlations between different factors and their
influence on the main independent variable, total work-life balance. SEM describes two types of
relationships between variables.
SEM is a model that combines multiple regression with factor analysis (Lynd D Bacon, in a SPSS
Publication). The SEM Model was used to analyse the data in this study since it is akin to a mix of
multiple regression and factor analysis. By inputting impact values ranging from 0-1, the Model
illustrates whether the link is favourable or negative.
Variable 1: Number of Working Hours
Variable 2: Number of Sleeping Hours
Variable 3: Number of Hours spent on Family/Themselves
Independent Variable: Over all Work Life balance
Variable 1's score of -0.3, i.e. the number of working hours, has a negative influence on work-life
balance. The findings revealed that professionals who work excessively dedicate all of their time,
energy, and resources to their profession, resulting in burnout and a lack of work-life balance, as
observed in Tait D Shanafelt et al. study's "Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Balance Among
US Physicians Relative to the General US Population" (2012). Variable 2 (number of sleeping hours),
with a score of 0.82, and variable 3 (time spent with family and on oneself), with a score of 0.65,
appear to have a significant and favourable correlation.

FINDINGS
The findings clearly reveal that hours spent on personal rest, quality family time spent, and time spent
on oneself has a direct proportionate relationship with medical practitioners' overall satisfaction levels.
The average working hours has grown, which has a negative impact on work-life balance.

RECOMMENDATION
Since family life has such a strong influence on work-life balance, corporate hospital management may
try to encourage doctors to participate in family activities such as get-togethers, family vacations,
sanctioning leave on family occasions, and providing care and support to the family's needy members.
Doctors might be forced to work a certain number of hours each day, beyond which they should not
be permitted to do anything else unless it is an emergency. Doctors may be required to undergo regular
medical examinations, and rewards may be offered to doctors who maintain excellent health.

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