Impact of night shift on worklife balance of doctors

According to Osterman, organizations introduce family friendly policies to respond to the practical problems associated with the recruitment and retention of the employees. Work life balance plays a positive role in minimizing the dissatisfaction among employees with respect to their jobs (Eikhof, Warhurst & Haunschild, 2007; Osterman, 1995). Although there are many factors which effect work life balance of doctors but in this research the main factor which would be are “Turnover, Job Satisfaction, and Performance. Night work causes particular health and safety problems. All the adverse effects of working shifts are worse among night workers.

When a person devotes more time to work and less time to home, then it affects its family and marital life. So the research problem is to find out the results of night shift on work life balance of Doctors in relation with mental and physical health. Therefore the study is on Impact of Night Shift on Work life Balance of Doctors in Jalandhar.

Questionnaire method was used for collecting data to find out the relation between shift and mental and physical health of doctors. Lottery method was used as a sampling technique.