Assessing Work Life Balance among Saudi Arabian Working Women – A Descriptive Study on Selected Employees

Abstract

The paper is an attempt to explore the way in which Saudi Arabian working women balance their work and family life, everyone is trying to keep a pace in this globalization age,universities and institutions are becoming very competitive  by providing more training and development opportunities, reducing discrepancies, improving faculty efficiency and morale. Work life balance is when an employee feels satisfied and his or her needs are been met in both personal and professional life, trying to keep a balance between work and life would result in welfare of faculty, students and the institution and similarly imbalance would affect performance in personal and professional life, Universities and Higher education ministries from time to time keep taking initiatives and formulating polices and strategies to maintain Work life balance programs, still women in this country are facing more difficulties in balancing work and family when compared to men, this research investigates the factors influencing work life balance of faculties from three colleges in a public university Riyadh. Data was collected with the help of questionnaire and analyzed by proper tools, hence it has been concluded that women are still struggling in managing work and personal life, but somehow the working women also agrees that employers do understand and recognize their personal and family responsibilities and duties to a certain extent and try to provide help in balancing work life balance.

Keywords: Work life balance, working women, influencing factors, professionals, Saudi Arabia.