A Study of Multiple Work-life Balance Initiatives in Banking Industry in Nigeria

This study examines the effect of a time usage policy on employee’s work-life conflict and the impact of leave programmes on employes’ attitude using five selected banks in Nigeria. A sample of N=386 respondents were randomly selected from these banks to participate in the study. Questionnaire was used to collect information from respondents. The standard multiple regression was used to generate results that indicate how well the set of variables representing work-life initiatives on time usage is able to predict work-life conflict. In order to find the relationship between the work-life initiatives on time usage and work-life conflict, the Pearson’s product-moment correlation coefficient was used. The result also showed that the correlations between the dependent variablejob-related attitude and independent variable-Leave initiatives to determine the level of relationship the work-life balance initiative bears on job-related attitude. The finding shows that a relationship exists between job related attitude and leave initiatives; however they are not statistically significant @ .05 level.