The relationship between work-life balance and employees’ job performance among support staff at Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU), Sarawak / Aiza Fuzna Adnan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between work-life balance and employees’ job performance among the support staff in Administrative Department and Human Resources Department at Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU), Kuching, Sarawak. This study included several factors in work-life balance such as demand of work, culture of work, work orientation and personal control and coping that influence the employees’ job performance in DBKU. The survey through questionnaire was used as a method in collecting data and from the 120 population of support staff in DBKU. 93 questionnaires were returned and analysis was made using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) for cleaning data, descriptive analysis, normality test, reliability test and Pearson correlation for statistical analysis. The result shows that there is a relationship between work-life balance and employees’ job
performance. All the factors in work-life balance is significantly correlated with the employees’ job performance in DBKU except for the demand of work that show there is no significant correlation with employees’ job performance. Several recommendations were made for the future research and organization that related to
work-life balance.