Work family balance and intention to stay of IT professionals in Sri Lanka: The mediating effect of job stress

This research is an attempt to examine the relationship between job related factors and intention to stay among IT Professionals in Sri Lanka, which is a continuous challenge for IT companies in Sri Lanka. In this study four key establishments of job related factors as career development, work life balance, job stress and pay satisfaction have been selected to analyse and evaluate their effects on IT professionals’ intention to stay in the current employment. The objectives of the study include identifying the relationship of intention to stay with work life balance. Furthermore, it was decided to identify mediation effect of job stress between the relationship work life balance and intention to stay as well. Two hypotheses were formulated in this research. The data were collected from a randomly selected sample of 100 IT professionals in IT companies in Sri Lanka. A structured questionnaire was administered to collect data. The data was analysed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Sobel test. The hypothesises were confirmed by the findings of the study. The results of the study exhibited that reducing job related stress from professionals, implementing good work life balance policies increases the intention to stay among IT Professionals.