The term work-life imbalance refers to the incompetence to balance work and personal activities (Aziz, Adkins, Walker, & Wuensch, 2010; Singh, 2010; Smith, 2010). Work-life balance is an individual taking control over his or her personal and professional responsibilities by reflecting on both areas of his life fairly (Avgar et al., 2011; Kar & Misra, 2013.When an employee feels their forced to work long hours, which affects their social and family lives, it can cause them to become detach to their work (Dibben, et al, 2011). However, when employees manage to balance work-life, it can create positive emotions causing to be more sensitive and helpful towards their employer (Bakker, et al, 2012). This motivates their confidence …show more content…
Kahn (1990) also identified the three emotional situations of personal engagement as meaningfulness, safety, and availability. People vary their personal engagement in agreement with their views of the benefits, as well as the resources they observe themselves to have their availability. Unlike personal engagement and work engagement, employee engagement has received fairly minute consideration from academics, though it is a popular topic in business and management referring groups (Saks, 2006; Bakker and Schaufeli, 2008; Watt and Piotrowski, 2008; Fine, Horowitz, Weigler, and Basis, …show more content…
Surveys directed by the IRS (2002) and CIPD (2005) cited in Bratton and Gold (2007) show evidence that employers implement work-life balance guidelines for recruitment and retention purpose. Combination of professional and personal life has progressively become crucial due to the way of life in transforming times and changing demographics and patterns of work and family (Higgins, Duxbury, & Lyons, 2010; Jansen, Mohren, Van Amelsvoort, Janssen, & Kant, 2010; Nayeem & Tripathy, 2012). These changes contributed to a growth in role overload as workers fight to lodge the various demands placed on them by their profession and personal lives (Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985; Higgins et al., 2010; Kahn et al., 1964). Researchers found that role overload has several stress related outcomes such as anxiety, burnout, fatigue, and decreased satisfaction with family and work (Ahola, Väänänena, Koskinena, Kouvonenb, & Shiromc, 2010; Frone, Yardley, & Markel 1997; Shultz, Wang, & Olson,