The relationship between work-life balance and employees' job performance at Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan Bahagian Kuching-Samarahan, Sarawak / Helen Maria Nelson Ugas

The main concept in work and organizational mind-set is the employees' performance. Balance in work and non-work demand is crucial and should be adapt to all employees both in private and public sector. The Work-Life Balance Model by Guest (2002) determinant used for this study is divided into two factors which are organizational and individual factors. The organizational factors include the demands of work and culture of work. Meanwhile, the individual factors include the work orientation and personal control and coping. These organizational and individual factors were used to examine the relationship between work-life balance and employees' job performance at Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan Bahagian Kuching Samarahan, Sarawak. Questionnaire developed by Guest (2002) used as the quantitative method for data collection. The findings of this research revealed that demands of work, culture of work, work-orientation and personal control and coping were important factors that give impact towards the success of an organization such as Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan Bahagian Kuching-Samarahan, Sarawak. The correlation analysis revealed that the strongest relationship is between work-orientation and employees' job performance at Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan Bahagian Kuching Samarahan because it is the process by which a newcomer to an organization is introduced to his or her job and integrated into the work group to which he or she will belong in such a way that the newcomer settles down into a productive, efficient and satisfied employee. For Pusat Teknologi Pendidikan Bahagian Kuching-Samarahan, it is a must for the employers or top management move towards healthy and productive environment by taking small steps to change the way of the organization works towards work-life balance.