Work Life Balance Spillover Effects on Employ...

Work Life Balance Spillover Effects on Employee Performance in a Generational Y and Z Workforce Dominated Environment: A Case Study of Primebet Kenya

Author Name : Munyes A. Lilian

ABSTRACT Mismatch between the skills and the employment Performance of most of employees across the world has received little attention in academic literature with interest gaining in assessment of Worklife balance spillover effects on employment performance in a generational Y and Z workforce dominated environment in betting firms in Kenya, Primebet Kenya in particular. Two objectives guided the study that sought to identify the level of adoption of four work life balance strategies of flexible work arrangements, telecommuting, counseling and crisis management and community engagement as well as the effect of these strategies on employee performance. The study was anchored on the Spillover theory to explain the process through which achieved balance between work and lifestyle spills from either work or lifestyle to trigger intrinsic motivation driving the workforce to high levels of performance. The study adopted cross sectional design and obtained a sample of 73 respondents drawn from the company headquarters. The study finds that the work life balance strategies are perceived as relevant by the dominant category of workforce in the Generation Y and Z clusters. In explaining the emergence of the spillover effects from the operation of the four work life balance strategies, the study finds complementarities between the spillover theory on one hand and the Herzberg’s two factor theory. The findings lead to the conclusion that the work life balance strategies are relevant for generation Y and Z workforce and went ahead to identify relevant implications for human resource management practices targeting the respective category of workforce in organizations. The study makes a call for future research to expand the conceptual and methodological scope of the current study based on the contributions from the complimentary behavioral science theories and the entire industry