Work-Life Balance: What Organizations Should do to Create Balance?

Ignoring personal, family and social aspects and increasing emphasis towards financial bottom lines has created an imbalance in the life of the workers at all levels. The result is stress in life, conflicts in family, social distortion, deteriorating performance and low productivity. To overcome this, work-life balance is necessary which is not a recommendation but a Divine order. This research is carried out to find out the answer to the simple question: what organizations should do to create balance? The results show that training and development, professional commitment and adherence to the core values, time management, clarity of vision, purpose and objectives, employee relationships and humanity, salary package and conducive work environment and innovation are the areas that organizations should focus and act upon to create WLB. These findings look generic but their ranking and priority is unique and hence may be of interest to many organizations.