Effect of Work Life Balance Practices on Employee Performance at Mwalimu National Savings and Credit Cooperative in Nairobi, Kenya

Abstract

This study sought to establish the effect of work life balance practices on employee performance at Mwalimu National Savings and Credit Cooperative in Nairobi, Kenya. Descriptive survey research design was adopted targeting 270 employees of Mwalimu SACCO head office in Nairobi. Simple random sampling technique was adopted where 50% of the respondents were selected from each stratum giving a total of 135 respondents. Primary data was gathered through questionnaire and the analysis was done through descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and inferential (regression analysis) statistics. It was observed that leave practices (M=4.60) was the most adopted WLB practices at Mwalimu SACCO followed by welfare practices (M=3.11) and flexible working practices (M=2.86). Regression results were that leave practices (β=.490, p<0.05) had the greatest significant effect on employee performance at Mwalimu SACCO followed by flexible working practices (β=.137, p<0.05) and welfare practice (β=.128, p<0.05). The study concludes that work life balance practices are significant predictors of employee performance in SACCOs. The study recommends that the HR managers of Mwalimu National SACCO should review the flexible working and welfare practices and policies that in place as these two components of WLB practices were shown to have been moderately adopted. Policy makers working at SASRA need to establish and formulate good policies that support WLB practices and the overall performance of employees.