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    THE EFECT OF WORK LIFE BALANCE ON EMPLOYEE JOB PERFORMANCE
    (WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2018-10-20) SHEWANESH KIFLE
    Work life balance is an important topic of human resource management and has become a top priority for workers everywhere as employees are required to maintain balance between their personal and professional life to work efficiently. The core purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of work life balance on employee job performance in commercial bank of Ethiopia. Factors involved are job performance and work life balance with respect to work to personal life interference, personal life to work interference, Work overload and work life balance programs. The study found out the connection between work life balance practices and job performance and whether Work life balance practices possibly increases employee job performance. The study has adopt Explanatory study design as many factors of work life balance are been identified and also it is causal research as impact of independent variables of work life balance on dependent variable job performance is being studied in this paper. The target population for the study is 2692 employees of commercial banks of Ethiopia at west Addis Ababa district working in 111 branches and a sample size of 349 respondents was taken. Sample were selected through simple random sampling method and stratified on the basis of branches grade. Cross sectional survey questionnaire were used for data collection in accordance with the objectives of the study. The collected data were analysed by using statistical package for social science and statistical tools such as descriptive analysis, correlation coefficient and regression analysis were adopted for analysis. The study found that three of work life balances dimensions i.e., work to personal life interference, personal life to work interference and work overload were inversely and significantly related with job performance. The study also indicates that Work life balance programs have a positive and significant relationship with job performance. The results supported past literatures and revealed that relationship exists between variables of work life balance & job performance. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that the organization should realize the effect of work life balance on job performance and should improve their work life balance programs by implementing family-friendly initiatives such as alternative work arrangements, employee assistance programs, dependent care policies and flexible leave policies to attract, recruit and retain more capable candidates.