The relationship between work-life balance practices and job performance among employees at Natural Resources and Environment Board (NREB) Sarawak/ Nurul Qahirah Zailani

In this modern era, in business environment work-life balance (WLB) has become one of the key issues faced by many employees all over the world. Maintaining personal life and work nowadays has become an important issues between employees life. In simply, work-life balance means the amount of time you spend doing your job compared with the amount of time you spend with your family and doing things you enjoy (Mendis, 2014). Work-life balance consist of three elements which is flexible work hours, leave and job sharing, (Hartel ,2007). The elements that contain in work-life balance are used to examine the relationship between job performance among employees at NREB, Sarawak. The aim of this study is to determine the correlation between work-life balance and job performance among employee at Natural Resources and Environment Board, Sarawak (NREB). The findings of study revealed that flexible work hours, leave and job sharing were important elements to job performance among employees at NREB, Sarawak. The correlation analysis revealed that job sharing and leave had relationship towards job performance. Meanwhile, flexible working hours shows that there was no relationship associated with job performance. Therefore, these findings provide a new knowledge and guideline to the future researcher and organization in terms of employees’ work-life balance and job performance.