Impact of Organizational Practices on Perceived Work-life Balance of Mid-level Employees at Garments Industry in Bangladesh: A Preliminary Study

Abstract

One of the most all-time contemporary issues of the RMG sector in Bangladesh is employee dissatisfaction due to the less scope of work-life balance of the workforce although the government and the foreign buyers are being focused on securing compliances regarding the issue in recent years to make the entire workforce’s work-life smoothen.  It is unfortunate that the organizations are focusing only on the low-cost employees such as workers and entry-level employees regarding this issue and are paying little attention to the mid-level workforce, who are playing the role as a pillar of managing the whole practices of the organization. As a result, job dissatisfaction among mid-level officials is heightening rapidly. The study worked on exploring this issue. The study has been conducted on 166 mid-level officials of the different RMG organizations from Dhaka, Gazipur, Savar, and Narayangonj. A close-ended questionnaire was prepared to collect the primary data and published journal articles and conference papers are the sources of secondary data collection. IBM SPSS 20.0 software has been used to analyze the collected data and standard multiple regression analysis has been done to pick the results. The results of this study highlight that physical & mental stress highly impacts the employee’s personal satisfaction whilst organizational environment have high impact on employee’s workplace satisfaction and physical & mental stress, work hour, and organizational environment is impacting significantly the employee’s organizational commitment as well. Besides, the study also reflects those other organizational practices relating to continuous work after office hour, compressed weekend, work-family climate, and work from home also impact the employee’s work-life balance whereas teleworking and leave and holiday consumption practices do not impact significantly

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