work life balance, job satisfaction and organizational commitment among nurses of kiruddu general hospital

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Nurses and other workers find hardship in choosing between family and job advancement. Most affected are those in highly demanding occupations such as nurses who face job dissatisfaction when there is work life imbalance. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between work life balance, job satisfaction and organisational commitment among nurses of Kiruddu referral hospital. A questionnaire was used to gather data from 52 respondents. The research established that there is a significant positive relationship between work life balance and job satisfaction, a significant positive relationship between job satisfaction and organisational commitment and between work life balance and organisational commitment. Results from Pearson product correlation Coefficient (r) indicated that there was a positive significant relationship between work life balance and job satisfaction(r=0.361**, p=0.009, <0.01), there was a positive significant relationship between job satisfaction and organisational commitment(r=0.546**, P=.000, <0.01) and a positive significant relationship between work life balance and organisational commitment(r=.359**, P=0.009, <0.01). It‟s therefore important that employers to put in place work life balance strategies to motivate workers especially female workers. The study further recommends that work life balance practices should be included in the human resource policies to ensure employee satisfaction and organisational commitment.