Work life balance and implications of spill over theory-A study on women entrepreneurs

A good work life balance between work and family domain is a growing concern today. There has been quite a lot of research being done to understand the effects of negative work life balance on health and well being of employees and their family.(annink, 2011)Individuals are increasingly looking to balance their responsibilities at work and in their personal life. Especially women do not view their job as a justification for attending less to their families, household work, and other social activities (Tausig, 2001)Entrepreneurship is the alternate route that people opt for in this situation, as self employment has no specific or defined boundary between work and home compared to organizational employees. They are responsible for dividing their time and energy between work and life domains themselves, and have no boss who determines their working hours. To most women becoming self-employed means having flexible work schedules, which offers possibilities to stay active, take care of the children and other family commitments at the same time have economic independence and discover their potential. Work-life is integrated when there is no distinction and mental boundary between work and home but segmentation occurs when there is a clear-cut mental boundary separating work and home. In between segmentation and integration lies a range. An individual can be at either ends of segmentation or integration or can be at any point of the range, actively engaged in mentally defining the boundaries. (Thomas kalliath, 2008)Investigated if entrepreneurship provided a better chance for achieving work-family balance than paid employment. Found that women entrepreneurs employ flexible work practices but entrepreneurship does not necessarily provide a perfect work-life balance. The present study tries to find out the effects of work-family spill over and family work spillover effects on work life balance of women entrepreneurs.