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Purpose: This empirical research has conducted to assess the faculty’s satisfaction level and its association with work life balance factors.  UG and PG colleges’ faculties were involved in this investigation. There are several factors contributing faculty’s work life balance and it also aimed at to find out the association between factors of work life balance and job satisfaction among the faculties.

Design and Methodology: Two hundred (200) UG and PG colleges’ faculties were involved in this study, and simple random sampling method was utilized to select the samples size. The systematic and structured questionnaire was used to accumulate the primary data. Articles, Journals, websites etc. were included for the accumulation of secondary information.

Analysis Tools: Simple percentile was used to find the portion of demographic data. Correlation has been consumed to analyze, infer and to test the hypothesis of the genuine data having dependent and independent variables. The data was processed through SPSS-20. 

Findings: This Research has procreated that, the job satisfaction of faculties has a positive and significance relationship between Efficiency and effectiveness at work, Workload Management, Family support and relationship and Health and wellness. Satisfaction has positive but not having significant relationship with Personal and self-care.

Research limitations: This work is covers only 200 faculties and limited to UG and PG colleges of Belagavi district. Time was the major constraint. 

Keywords

Faculties, Work life balance, Job satisfaction

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