Work life balance, job stress and job satisfaction. A case study on the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHuSS) of Makerere University

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to assess and investigate how work-life balance, job stress are related and how they affect job satisfaction of the staff members of College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Makerere University. The study was carried out with the aim of achieving the following objectives to find out the relationship between work-life balance and job stress, to find out the relationship between work-life balance and job satisfaction, to find out the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction and lastly to find out how work-life balance and job stress affect employee job satisfaction. The correlation study design was used during the study. The study used a sample size of 50 respondents where simple random sampling was used to select the study respondents. Data was therefore collected using a self- administered questionaires and was later analyzed using. Statistical Package for Social Scientists version 23. In conclusion, it has been found that there is a significant relationship between job stress and job satisfaction which means that an increase in eustress leads to increased job satisfaction among staff members of college of humanities and social sciences. Both statistical and theoretical findings indicated job satisfaction and job stress are not predictors of work- life balance of staff members of college of humanities and social sciences of Makerere University. Therefore, the study retained the first and second hypothesis which stated that there is no significant relationship between work-life balance and job stress and there is no significant relationship between work-life balance and job satisfaction.