A Study of Work Life Balance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of Female Professors in Selected Colleges of Punjab

Abstract

In India, a working woman is expected to carry out her family responsibilities as efficiently as she fulfills her professional obligations. In doing so various factors like her marital status, dependents at home like children or elderly, nature of family et cetera affects her mental and physical wellbeing. This poses a challenge on working women to refrain from going an extra mile or doing beyond their basic duties or key roles. Therefore, this paper aims at studying the relationship between Work Life Balance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of female professors in the selected colleges of Punjab. It also studied the impact of Work Life Balance on Organizational Citizenship Behavior of female professors in these selected colleges. In this direction, sampling was done using questionnaire method and a data of 884 female professors was obtained from randomly selected colleges of Punjab. The findings revealed that there is positive relationship between Work Life Balance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior of female professors and based on these outcomes, several measures have been suggested to the selected colleges that can inculcate policy reformations in a way of bringing a balance between the work and life of female professors and provide more harmony to them.