Title: Factors affecting employees' work-family balance of aluminium fabrication firms in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Authors: Jayendira P. Sankar; Muhammad Abrar Ul Haq; Farheen Akram; Shaju George; Uday Kumar Baddela

Addresses: College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, AMA International University, Bahrain ' College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Bahrain ' College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Bahrain ' College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Bahrain ' College of Administrative and Financial Sciences, AMA International University, Bahrain

Abstract: This study aims to bring out the significant effect of six independent factors on work-family balance from the perspective of employees of aluminium fabrication firms in Bahrain. Furthermore, the study also analyses the moderating effect of job experience between employee relationship, self-satisfaction, and work-family balance. For this purpose, the primary data was collected through a structured questionnaire using purposive sampling from 306 employees of aluminium fabrication. PLS-SEM was utilised to analyse and prove the construct's hypothesis. Employee relationships, self-satisfaction, stress management, higher productivity, low employee turnover, job experience, and stress management have a significant positive effect on the work-family balance. Meanwhile, better teamwork does not have any significant effect on the current model. Moreover, job experience has significant negative moderation between employee relationships and work-family balance. Likewise, the results also indicate the significant positive moderation of job experience between self-satisfaction and work-family balance.

Keywords: work-family balance; better teamwork; employee relationship; higher productivity; low employee turnover; self-satisfaction; stress management; job experience; Bahrain.

DOI: 10.1504/MEJM.2022.125293

Middle East Journal of Management, 2022 Vol.9 No.5, pp.461 - 482

Received: 27 Mar 2021
Accepted: 09 May 2021
Published online: 06 Sep 2022 *

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