Abstract:
Work-family balance is a challenging issue for many working adults. As far as
Sri Lanka is concerned, employees’ awareness and perception about work-family
balance is very limited as compared to the western countries. Academics in
Sri Lanka are no exception and they receive very little or no family-friendly support
from universities as they struggle to achieve a balance between work and family
with their never-ending workload. The objective of this study is to investigate
the relationship between university academics’ work-family balance and job
performance. Further, this study aims to find the dimensional impact of workfamily balance on job performance of university academics. With the purpose of
accomplishing the aforesaid objectives, a self-administered survey is carried out
among 200 university academics from the four largest government universities
in Sri Lanka. The sample is selected based on simple random sampling from the
management faculties of the respective universities. This study finds a statistically
significant positive relationship between work-family balance and job performance
among academics. It also finds that a significant positive relationship exists
between work-family balance dimensions and job performance. Further,
satisfaction balance is identified as the major contributor to job performance
