Influence of work-life balance on occupational stress of employee in the Nigeria banking industry Ogun state, Nigeria

Abstract

Organizational survival has been argued to be a primary goal or objective of every organization with which service companies cannot be neglected. Stress can be either positive or negative for employees subjected to their level it is on this premise the study intends to investigate the extent to which work-life balance influences the occupational stress of employee in the Nigeria banking industry. The total population of this study is 429. Sample size for this study was 154, the research instrument used for the analysis was a questionnaire. Data was analysed with the use of both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. The result revealed a significant regression coefficient was found F (1,153) = 1296.574, p= 0.000), with R2 of 894, this presupposes that 80.4% variation in occupational stress was as a result of work overload which is an indicator of work life balance. It was concluded that the organization should take care of the level of satisfaction of workers if it wants to produce positive results and recommended that the management of banks should incorporate job training advancement in the organization as the study found that job training affected the performance of staffs to a great extent.