The relationship between work-life balance and employees' job performance at Integrated Agriculture Development Area (IADA) Samarahan / Cynthia Sandra Chendu Ading

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between work-life balance and employees‟ job performance in public sector among employees at Integrated Agriculture Development Area (IADA) Samarahan. Guest 2002 work- life balance model was used in the research. The total population for this study was 130 and involved the staff at IADA Samarahan. The sampling technique used in this research is the convenience sampling. The sample size of 97 was chosen based on the suggestion of Krejcie and Morgan table (1970) which was used for the study. The instrument used for this study is developed by and was prepared in both languages: English and Bahasa Melayu. Reliability test was done and shows that all the items are reliable. The correlation analysis shows that demands of work, culture of work and personal control and coping does have an impact employees‟ job performance. However, work orientation factor shows no significant relationship with employees‟ job performance. The researcher recommended that in future, IADA Samarahan should become more alert in their staff welfare in order for them to be able to achieve
work-life balance.