Impact of health and recreation on work-life balance: A case study of expatriates

Pranav Naithani

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Abstract: Factors influencing work-life balance are evolving at a very fast pace, thus creating a fecund ground for innovative work-life balance tools and techniques. The increasing significance of expatriates in the global workforce necessitates a targeted set of work-life balance initiatives to help expatriate workers contribute more effectively in the competitive work environment. Health and recreation are the two important life spheres which play a very important role in success or failure of an expatriate assignment. While work-life balance researches are being conducted globally in plenty, yet research on expatriate adjustment and expatriate work-life balance is still in its nascent stage especially in an expatriate dominated work environment in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This research paper investigates the health and recreation spheres of expatriate academicians working in private higher education institutes in Bahrain, Oman and the UAE. The research paper illustrates and evaluates the health and recreation spheres in relation to the demographic factors of the respondents and suggests ways to improve work-life balance of expatriate employees.

Keywords: Work-life balance; work-life conflict; expatriate adjustment; college teacher; middle-east. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A3 I0 I00 I2 I23 I28 I3 I30 I38 J00 J6 L0 L00 M0 M00 Y8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in International Journal of Social Science and Business 1.1(2016): pp. 33-45

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