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Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement and Work Life Balance among Dual Career Women in Different Professions


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With the change in workforce diversity by increasing number of women entering workforce the dynamics of behavior in organizations is changing. The present paper studies the relationship between organizational commitment, job involvement and work life balance in working women in different professions under public and private sector. The participants of the study were 120 working women from various professions i.e., media house (N=40), doctors(N=40), call centres (N=40) in Delhi NCR. The mean age was 34.21 years (SD=4.83) range is 25 to 45 years. The data have been measured by using Quality of Working life (QWL) Scale, Job Involvement Scale by Santosh Dhar, Upinder Dhar and Srivastava and Organizational Commitment (Mowday, Steers, & Porter,1979). Two way analysis of variance was employed to analyze the data. Results revealed significant difference in work life balance of different profession. Job involvement was found to be high in Doctors. Private workers seem to be highly involved in their jobs. Organizational commitment of doctors was significantly different (p<.01) from other professions.

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Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement, Work Life Balance, Professions, Dual Career Women.
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Arvind K. Birdie
IIMT School of Management (Vedatya), Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Kuldeep Kumar
IIMT School of Management (Vedatya), Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Abstract


With the change in workforce diversity by increasing number of women entering workforce the dynamics of behavior in organizations is changing. The present paper studies the relationship between organizational commitment, job involvement and work life balance in working women in different professions under public and private sector. The participants of the study were 120 working women from various professions i.e., media house (N=40), doctors(N=40), call centres (N=40) in Delhi NCR. The mean age was 34.21 years (SD=4.83) range is 25 to 45 years. The data have been measured by using Quality of Working life (QWL) Scale, Job Involvement Scale by Santosh Dhar, Upinder Dhar and Srivastava and Organizational Commitment (Mowday, Steers, & Porter,1979). Two way analysis of variance was employed to analyze the data. Results revealed significant difference in work life balance of different profession. Job involvement was found to be high in Doctors. Private workers seem to be highly involved in their jobs. Organizational commitment of doctors was significantly different (p<.01) from other professions.

Keywords


Organizational Commitment, Job Involvement, Work Life Balance, Professions, Dual Career Women.