Mediating Effect of Work Engagement between Work Life Balance and Turn over Intention in Higher Education Institutions of Quetta
Keywords:
Work-life balance, work engagement, turnover intention, job autonomyAbstract
In modern working environment organizations ask employees to invest their
time and energy for betterment of organizations. While employees are in
pressure to manage their time and energy for work-and life aspects together
that affect their engagement level with work. The purpose of this study is to
explain the turnover intention from work-life balance and work engagement
based on theory of social exchange among faculties of higher education institute
of Quetta Pakistan. 300 Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to
teachers of four universities (public and private) operating in Quetta through
proportional stratified sampling technique. Multiple linear regressions and
Bootstrapping 5000 resample approach was applied to test hypotheses. Result
indicates that teachers are facing work-life balance issues that affect their
engagement level at work place. Despite the work-life balance issues teachers’
turnover intention was at low because of permanent nature of job. It is
recommended that supervisors should support teachers to manage their worklife balance by providing autonomy at work place
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