INFLUENCE OF WORK LIFE BALANCE ON JOB PERFORMANCE AMONG THE TEACHERS IN IBADAN NORTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO STATE

Abstract

This examined the influence of work life balance on job performance among the teachers in Ibadan North Local Government Area of Oyo state. The interface between family and work and its consequences have been identified to play significant role in teachers’ job outcome.  Previous studies have focused attention on employees of other work sectors with little attention to the teachers. The study was a cross-sectional survey design. Three hundred (300) teachers in the state employment purposively selected from some selected secondary schools in Ibadan North LGA. The research instrument was structured questionnaires containing standardized scales (Work Life Balance Scale (α =0.91); Job performance Scale (α. = .76) and socio—demographic data while hypotheses were tested using Pearson product moment correlation analysis (PPMC), t-test and ANOVA at 0.05 level of significance. The results of the hypotheses tested reveals that there is a significant relationship between work life balance, gender, educational status and job performance. Female teachers significantly reported more job performance than male teachers. Level of education influenced the teachers job performance, teachers job performance increased with higher level of education (master’s degree) reported higher job performance than those with lower level of education. In the light of the findings of this study, it was recommended that TESCOM and school management should prioritize work life balance for teachers in order to improve their job performance output.