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Searching Coping Strategies to Balance Work and Life in Indian Context - A Qualitative Study


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Purpose- An employee at one or another phase of life experiences conflict, stress or burnout situation. To overcome these situations, they opt for various measure. The study explores the intrinsic and extrinsic work- life cope- up strategies of B-School faculty members to reduce stress, conflict and bring harmony in day to day life.

esign/Methodology/Approach- The research is based on 39 qualitative interviews with male and female faculty members of B-Schools of Delhi NCR. These were generally Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor with at least two of work experience. Semi structured in- depth interview was conducted and content analysis was used to analysis these interviews.

Findings- The result revels that faculty members adopt different coping strategies to balance work-life commitments. On the basis of content analysis eight themes were formed. These eight themes were split into sub-themes. Over all it was found that opinions disclosed on way of managing both the ends were based on self-efforts and understanding rather on organisation policies.


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Work-Life, Cope-Up Mechanism, Cope-Up Strategies, Content Analysis, Qualitative.
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Neeti Sharma
Associate Professor, Accurate Group of Institutions, Greater Noida 49, Knowledge Park III, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201306, India

Abstract


Purpose- An employee at one or another phase of life experiences conflict, stress or burnout situation. To overcome these situations, they opt for various measure. The study explores the intrinsic and extrinsic work- life cope- up strategies of B-School faculty members to reduce stress, conflict and bring harmony in day to day life.

esign/Methodology/Approach- The research is based on 39 qualitative interviews with male and female faculty members of B-Schools of Delhi NCR. These were generally Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor with at least two of work experience. Semi structured in- depth interview was conducted and content analysis was used to analysis these interviews.

Findings- The result revels that faculty members adopt different coping strategies to balance work-life commitments. On the basis of content analysis eight themes were formed. These eight themes were split into sub-themes. Over all it was found that opinions disclosed on way of managing both the ends were based on self-efforts and understanding rather on organisation policies.


Keywords


Work-Life, Cope-Up Mechanism, Cope-Up Strategies, Content Analysis, Qualitative.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22552/jijmr%2F2021%2Fv7%2Fi2%2F210611