Understanding the essence of work life balance: A literature review

The review of literature on various individual and organizational factors impacting work life balance of faculty has been outlined. It's the teacher who inspires, cultivates and enthuses learning in the classroom. Teachers suffer from unsustainable administrative demands as various administrative responsibilities have been added to their work along with other individual and organizational factors. Of late we have seen the movement of work life balance in the field of Education especially in the area of higher education. There has been a shift in the role of the Professor now they have become "Admin-Professors" which is responsible to a great extent for the work life imbalance of Faculty.