Work-Life Balance And Its Impact On Job Performance: A Study With Special Reference to Women Police In Chennai City

Background: Maintaining a good work-life balance is quite difficult for women in demanding professions like law enforcement. The twin weight of professional obligations and home responsibilities causes stress and burnout among female police officers in Chennai City. Methodology: This paper mostly addresses the challenges faced by female police officers in Chennai as well as the strategies meant to improve their performance at their positions. The study examines for Chennai's female police officers how job performance and work-life balance interact. Split into several ranks, two hundred female police officers from Chennai were handed a preformulated questionnaire. Among the most important things considered are work hours, family responsibilities, job satisfaction, and degrees of perceived stress. The study employs a mixed-method approach combining qualitative insights gained from interviews with quantitative analysis accomplished using regression methodological approaches. Findings: According to the findings, lack of work-life balance causes moderate to high levels of stress for 68 percent of respondents; 72 percent of them claim that such imbalances affect their performance at job. With the stress resulting from an imbalance between job and personal life, the results of the regression analysis show that job performance has a rather negative correlation (R2 = 0.63, p = 0.01). The findings show that right now interventions including flexible work schedules, stress management programs, and institutional support for female officers in order to improve their work-life balance and raise their performance are needed. Among the recommendations are also stressing the need of gender-sensitive policies and building a motivating workplace. This paper seeks to provide a framework for policymaking by means of insightful analysis of the vital influence work-life balance has in determining job performance especially among female police officers.