A study on &Effect of work load on health of women employees working in IT/BPO sector&

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of work load on the health of women employees working in IT/BPO sector. Work life balance Policies is used as a moderator between work load and health of women employees. The sample consisted of 413 women employees working in IT/BPO sector of Pune region. The statistical tools used in this study are MANOVA, ANOVA and Factorial ANOVA for moderation. MANOVA was conducted to find the impact of work load on health of women employees. ANOVA was conducted to find the impact of work load on each dependent variable of health. The MANOVA results (p value = 0.000) revealed that there is an adverse impact of work load on the health of women employees. ANOVA results for impact of work load on each dependent variable shows that there is a significant impact of work load on each dependent variable of health - getting tired and exhausted, physical health, can’t relax after coming home from work, mental stress level of women employees’ and behavioral changes in women employees’. When Work Life Balance Policies was used as moderator between work load and health of women employees, Factorial ANOVA for moderation, results (P value = 0.001) show that work life balance policies reduce the adverse effect of work load of health of women employees.