A study on influence of work place conflict on job stress and work life balance among nurses in Thanjavur.

Balancing the work and the family is becoming a biggest challenge for every employee especially for women workers who has additional responsibilities in taking care of the family. Nurses working in the hospitals are suffering from various issues like supplementary work load, extensive working hours, modest salary, and provocation increases the work place conflict resulting in job stress. The main purpose of the study covered in this paper was to investigate the influence of work place conflict on job stress and work life balance among the nurses of the hospital in both government and private sector in Thanjavur. Primary data has been collected from 300 nurses including of both public and private hospitals in Thanjavur district. It was evaluated using multiple regressions, one way ANOVA and correlation by interrelating the controlling variables with dependent and independent list of each items using job stress as a mediating factor between work place conflict and work life balance. After the analysis it is been found that conflict is the root cause for job stress among nurses which is a reducing factor of work life balance. Employees who follow work life balance have good psychological and physical health condition than those who do not follow it up. Nurses from nuclear lineage, married, highly qualified and private are facing high stress and low work life balance than other employees. Work place conflict arises from various issues which are the leading factor of job stress for reduced work life balance. The study uncovers the reason for low work life balance.