Relationships between work-family balance, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and work engagement among higher education lecturers
Abstract
Background and Purpose: Our research examines the impact of work-life balance on work engagement, both direct impact as well as through job and life satisfaction. The main aim of our research is to empirically test relations between work-life balance, job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and work engagement among higher education lecturers from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, and Slovenia.
Methods: Using validated questionnaires, we collected data on work-life balance, job satisfaction, life satisfaction and their work engagement. The quantitative data for our analysis were collected through a survey of 164 online participants. Based on an extensive literature review, we have formulated five hypotheses, which we tested in one structural model by using structural equation modelling (SEM).
Results: Our findings show that an increase in work-life balance positively relates to life and work satisfaction and that life satisfaction leads to an increase in work engagement.
Conclusion: The knowledge of important impact of work-life balance, together with the understanding of the relations between the researched constructs of work-life balance, life satisfaction, job satisfaction and work engagement, can strengthen teachers’ work engagement by respecting employees as actors in other roles and supporting work-family balance in the form of family-friendly policies and practices, and thereby contributes to the area of employee’s behaviour and improves the teacher’s productivity.
Keywords
work-life balance;job satisfaction;life satisfaction;organisationwork engagement;
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of publishing: | 2021 |
| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
| Organization: | UM FOV - Faculty of Organizational Sciences |
| Publisher: | Moderna organizacija |
| UDC: | 005.9:378 |
| COBISS: |
74711811
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| ISSN: | 1318-5454 |
| Views: | 516 |
| Downloads: | 35 |
| Average score: | 0 (0 votes) |
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| Secondary language: | Slovenian |
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| Secondary keywords: | ravnotežje med poklicnim in zasebnim življenjem;zadovoljstvo pri delu;zadovoljstvo z življenjem;zavzetost pri delu;SEM; |
| Type (COBISS): | Scientific work |
| Pages: | str. 227-237 |
| Volume: | ǂVol. ǂ54 |
| Issue: | ǂiss. ǂ3 |
| Chronology: | 2021 |
| DOI: | 10.2478/orga-2021-0015 |
| ID: | 16469220 |
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