Work-life Balance and Job Performance:  A case of Royal Malaysian Police

Jun Nazlia Hilwa; Tuan Nooriani Tuan Ismail

doi:10.21834/e-bpj.v9iSI22.5901

Authors

Jun Nazlia Hilwa Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
Tuan Nooriani Tuan Ismail Faculty of Administrative Science & Policy Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v9iSI22.5901

Keywords:

Work-life Balance, Job Performance, Workload, Job Satisfaction

Abstract

This study was designed to investigate the worklife balance and job performance among the Royal Malaysian Police (RMP). RMP faced various challenges due to nature of their work and pressured with high perception among societies for them to solve security related issues. This study used a purposive sampling of 380 RMP located in Kedah. Finding reveals that there exist a correlation between work-life balance (time balance, organisational support and workload) and job performance. All hypotheses are accepted as there is positive relationship between independent and dependent varaibles. Therefore, it can be concluded that work-life balance has impact on job performance.

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