A study on influence of Age, gender and marital status on mutual conflict between work and personal life among officers in banking sector with reference to Bangalore Urban Dist.

Work life balance is all about maintaining a proper balance between work and life by managing the responsibilities in personal life and work life in a manner that contributes satisfaction in both integral part of one's life. Work life balance issues are different form one person to another and one profession to other. To be productive in work and life one has to maintain a proper balance irrespective of the industry one belongs to nonetheless if he or she is working in the banking sector. The very nature of a banking job and changes in the sector due to innovations in banking operations with technological advancement working in a banking industry is a challenging task. This research study attempted to find out the influence of Individual variables like age, gender and marital status on mutual interference of work and personal life conflict of officers working in the banking sector. A structured questionnaire administered to officers working in selected public and private sectors bank branches Data was collected from 50 employees of selected public sector and private sector bank branches in Bangalore city between the months of October 2016 to March 2017. Descriptive and Inferential statistical tools like Annova, mean and mode was used for analysis of the data. The Comparison of means was carried out to test the hypotheses. Results revealed that there is significant difference between the perceived mutual interference of work and personal life among officers of different age groups, respondents in age group of 31–40 and 51–60 have more conflict than other groups. On the marital status factor married individuals have witnessed more work-life conflict. Gender wise the opinion highlights both male and female respondents have experienced similar work-to-personal life conflict.