11th HRM Student Research Symposium 2024

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    IMPACT OF WORK - ROLE OVERLOAD ON WORK - FAMILY BALANCE SATISFACTION: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF PEER SUPPORT
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Madhuhansi, R.M.J.; Karunarathne, R.A.I.C.
    In the current context, work and family play a major role in a person's life. Due to the competition and complexity that comes with globalization, it has become imperative for people to be employed. Due to the work role overload, people's inability to balance their family and work in a satisfactory manner has become a major problem facing people all over the world. This has indirectly affected the mental health of employees. Because of this, attention has been focused worldwide on studying the impact of work role overload. Therefore, this study aims to understand how this work role overload relates to work-family balance satisfaction and the moderating role of support given by peers in the workplace. Accordingly, this research study was conducted as a cross-sectional study and used a standard questionnaire for data collection. The study population was the executive-level employees of ABC Telecommunication Company, and 230 executives participated in this study, representing all the departments in the company. SPSS version 23 was used to analyze the collected data, and descriptive statistics, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and Andrew F. Hayes Process for SPSS (v.4.3) were used to test the impact of work role overload on work-family balance satisfaction and the moderating effect of peer support. The results of this study showed that the work role overload negatively related to employees’ work-family balance satisfaction. Further, as we proposed, the moderating effect of peer support on the relationship between employees’ work role overload and work-family balance satisfaction was significant, and higher peer support weakens the negative impact of work role overload on work-family balance satisfaction. Findings of the research study contribute to the persistence of existing theories regarding work-family balance satisfaction and the work role overload. This study also helps ABC Company to identify the work role overload of employees, especially at the executive level, and implement relevant strategies to create a supportive work environment that helps employees balance family and work in a satisfying way. However, focusing only on peer support among the various types of social support, only executive-level employees are used for the study, and only one company in the telecommunications sector is focused on, which are major limitations of this study.
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    THE IMPACT OF REMOTE WORKING ON MENTAL WELLBEING WITH MEDIATION ROLE OF WORK LIFE BALANCE OF IT PROFESSIONALS IN WESTERN PROVINCE
    (Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2025) Ranwala, R.M.S.P.; Janadari, M.P.N.
    The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of remote working on the mental wellbeing of IT professionals in the Western Province of Sri Lanka with the mediation role of work life balance. In addition to that, this study intends to contribute to filling the knowledge gap by looking into the relationship between remote working and mental wellbeing of IT professionals. Although there is enough literature on remote working and mental wellbeing, the literature context focusing the IT industry and Sri Lankan context is less. This research is deductive (theory testing) research. This research was conducted using a survey research strategy and quantitative research method. The employees of the IT companies within the Western Province which are registered in SLASSCOM were chosen as the population of the study. The sample size was 375, data collection was done through a self-administered questionnaire and simple random sampling technique. A Google Form was created and distributed to collect data. The number of employees who responded was 393 and 375 were considered for conducting the research further and 18 responses were discarded due to incompletion. Both descriptive and inferential statistics, namely correlation and regression, were used to analyze data. In addition, process macro was used to find the mediation effect of work life balance. The results indicate that remote working has a positive impact on the mental wellbeing of IT professionals while work life balance does not specifically mediate the relationship between remote working and mental wellbeing.