Factors Affecting Work-Life Balance of Women in Leadership Roles: In Case of Care Ethiopia, Ingo
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Work-life balance, in its broadest sense, encompasses all aspects of employees' personal and professional lives. Hence, the purpose of this research was to examine the factors that affect work-life balance of women in supervisory roles across CARE Ethiopia. By its methodological approach, this study has collected primary data through survey questionnaire instrument and applied scientific methods using descriptive and explanatory research designs that resulted in presentation of correlational and regression analysis of factors using the statistical application, SPPS. All women in CARE Ethiopia who were playing a supervisory role considered for the data collection since they were determined as a manageable size. The findings from the study revealed that the women’s work role has an adverse effect in their balancing office work and non-work responsibilities. This is due to the busy atmosphere with tight deadlines and high demands from the roles. Being married and having dependent kids at home are also creating time constraint to enjoy other parts of life, hence the same has been contributing for having imbalanced work-life to many of the women in this study. On the other hand, even though they are not satisfied with their overall personal skills in managing work-life balance, family issues and the employer's role were not determined to be the primary causes of having unbalanced work-life domains. Moreover, the result from the study identified opportunities for improvement and affirmative actions to enable women with greater flexible leave programs, establish wellbeing initiatives, set up wellness center, having professional counselling programs, providing relevant trainings about harmonizing and balancing work and non-work life activities