期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2014
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：8254
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：At present every successful employee has to pass through the dilemma of work life balance in personal andprofessional life. For the sake of leading a successful life, people do not hesitate to give extra time for achieving theobjectives of life. In the process of getting extra mileage in their professional life they have to make a lot ofcompromise and sometimes mental piece also gets distorted. We have 24 hours at our disposal to deal with and it is upto us how to schedule and plan the same. It is rightly pointed out by experts, if our life span is 60 years (assumed to be)and if we sleep for 8 hours per day, than 20 years of our life span we used for sleeping only. So planning of our owntime is important. At the end of the day priority matters a lot. In addition, relationships suffer and the person begins toexperience loneliness and depression. The psychotherapist believes that mid-career professionals are most prone tohaving work-life imbalances. In the present paper it is an attempt by authors to present a comparative study on worklifebalance dilemmas faced by nurses working in private and government hospitals. In the present research, initially 14variables were identified. However after making a pilot study and conducting core group discussions with various HRexperts at district level and state level, the variables were reduced to 10 only. The opinion of the Policy makers ofvarious government and private hospital, senior professor from academics and senior professor of various hospitals wasalso considered for the finalization of variables. This study is based on primary sources of data and to some extentsecondary sources. Various authentic journals, books and literature on the subject, newspapers, magazines, reports andstudies were referred for the conceptual frame work of the study. The data was collected by distribution of close to 600questionnaires across the various government hospitals and private hospitals of Odisha, India and of these 337responses received in all. The percentage of response was in overall was 56.17% and from government hospitals it was52.92% and from the private managed hospitals the response was 58.33%. To know the perception level percentagemethod included in the questionnaire with close end options. Questions have covered demographic factors like agegroup, designation, years of working, family size etc. The analysis is carried out on the basis of socio economic profileand general perception towards the personal and professional life.
