WORK-LIFE BALANCE AMONG WORKING STUDENTS IN THE BANKING AND NON-BANKING SECTORS OF GHANA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to clarify the notion that working students do not balance their work with their lives. This was done by finding out the degree of stressfulness among working students in the bank and students working in other organizations. The study also sort to examine whether there was an overflow effect of work on studies and vice versa. The research data were acquired by administering questionnaires and unstructured interviews to working students and conducting semi-structured interviews on human resource managers of some selected banks. In all, 100 questionnaires were administered and 96 of them were returned. The data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The major findings of the research were that working students did not have much time for their families but cared for them better financially. It also found out that students working in banks experienced more stress issues than those working in other institutions. It was recommended that there should also be effective job rotation to make sure employees get the chance to work at less demanding departments of the workplace in order to reduce their stress level. It was also recommended that further research be done on how working students can balance their work with their lives since this work only established that students working in banks could not balance their work with their lives.