Assessment of Coping Strategies for Work-Life Conflict: A Focus on Selected Deposit Money Banks in Aba, Abia State Nigeria

This work assessed the strategies with which workers of deposit money banks cope with work-life conflicts. Balancing the demands of professional and personal life has remained a growing concern for both employers and employees. Researchers have tried to establish work-life balance without success. In view of this, both employers and employees are concerned with developing strategies for coping with it.    The objectives of the study were to: determine the nature of the relationship between telecommuting and family involvement, ascertain the nature of the relationship between work leave program and family involvement; and to identify the nature of relationship between restrictive work hours and family involvement. To achieve the objectives, a survey research design was adopted. The techniques employed in analyzing the data were descriptive statistics and the spearman rank correlation coefficient. The results indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between telecommuting and family involvement; work leave program and family involvement; and restrictive work hour’s and family involvement. Based on the findings, the researcher concluded that bank workers suffer from work-life conflicts and both the organization and the workers adopt several strategies for overcoming it. However, there are inherent contradictions that make the strategies ineffectual in restoring work-life balance. It was recommended that policies relating to work-life balance should be implemented consistently; firms should leverage on the potentials of information and communication technologies (ICT); and efforts should be made to increase employee involvement in decisions concerning work-life balance.