IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) e-ISSN: 2278-487X, p-ISSN: 2319-7668. Volume 22, Issue 9. Ser. VI (September 2020), PP 50-53 www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/487X-2209065053 www.iosrjournals.org 50 | Page “Work Life Balance: Awareness among employees working in Selected Private Banks in Belgaum City” Dr. Basavaraj S. Kudachimath 1 , Prof. Arun Rotti 2 Dept. of P.G. Studies in Business Administration, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Jnana-Sangama, Belagavi, Karnataka -590018 Asst. Prof., Dept. of P.G. Studies in Business Administration, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Jnana- Sangama, Belagavi, Karnataka – 590018 Abstract Work Life Balance is an Individual/independent quality/attribute, which spell out an equilibrium point between Personal life and professional life. In a vibrant economy managing an individual employee is more difficult than ever before. Work life imbalance effect both personal and work life of an employee. The demand to understand the work life balance among employees working in banks (Public sector and Private sector),has emerged as a challenge to the employers and to understand whether their employees are enjoying Work Life Balance or not. Because the eventual performance of any organization or institutional establishment stands on the performance out comes of its employees, and performance of an employee is depends upon the factors which can be associated with job satisfaction or family or both. Accordingly work life balance becomes an important element to maintain and increase the efficiency among the employees and it also is the primary cause to attain the job satisfaction. Due to high intervention of technology in the routine work of banking function increase the difficulty to manage personal and professional life. The core objective of this study is to investigate the impact of work life balance on employee job satisfaction among the public sector banks and private sector banks in the Belagavi city. We have used an empirical study approach to understand the work life balance among the Banking Sector in the Belagavi city. The required data will be collected by considering features such as gender, age, managerial rank and tenure of job. And we use structured questionnaires to collect the primary data and quantified by using Likert –Scale as data and these were analyzed and interpreted by using statistical techniques and news papers and journals, publications brought out by research institutions, university library, research articles etc to collect the Secondary data. This study reveals that whether employees are happy with their work life balance or not. And finding reveals that every work life balance factor on its own is an invisible ingredient of job satisfaction and there is a considerable gap among the female and male respondents with job satisfaction. Key Words: Work Life Balance Policies, Banking Sector, Technological Intervention, Job satisfaction. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 10-09-2020 Date of Acceptance: 24-09-2020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction As we all are aware that work life balance has its existence from 1960‟s, it has fetched the significance attention from the last two decades. Work life balance is commonly referred as an art of managing/ handling the two important elements of every work force i.e. Personal Life and Professional Life. And every employee is fighting to match the balance between both, so that he / she will lead his/her life happily. On the other hand it becomes necessity on the part of employer to help their work force to achieve the work life balance and desired objective. All evils which affect the work efficiency will take birth in an organization, if its work force suffers from Work Life Conflict (the scene where an employee does not attain the work life balance). Many scholars have defined Work life Balance with different dimensions. Few of them are as follows: Kirchmeyer (2000) [1] simply defined work-life balance as „achieving satisfying experiences in all life domains‟. Lewis (2000) [2] differently conceptualized work life balance as a two way process involving a consideration of the needs of employees as well as those of employers. The English Dictionary [3] defines Work Life Balance as, 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, it can be difficult to get the right work-life balance. To conclude we can claim that work-life balance primary deals with making decision that will help an employee to balance the requirements of both employers and family members. And enjoy the equilibrium which helps for high performance and satisfaction at level of life. Work life balance has significant consequences for employee attitudes towards their organizations as well as for the lives of employees. Work life balance is essential for proper functioning of employees at work and also at home.