The Effect of Work- Life Balance on Employee Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

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Due to the rapid developments and changes in the information and communication technologies, and also, in life styles of people, it has been observed that employees can not make a balance between work and personal lives; and therefore in order to cope with this problem organizations have practiced work-life-balance programs. According to the internal marketing approach, to be satisfied of external customers depends on to be satisfied of personnel who are internal customers. If the employers achieve to establish a balance between work and personal lives that would affects their satisfaction and organizational commitments as well. Thus, in order to specify correlations between these concepts is extremely significant in terms of being able to produce various politics related with human resources and managers to better manage the organization’s human resources. In relation to this concept, this study is aimed to explain the correlation between the organizational commitment and employee satisfaction of the worklife balance as well as the effect of the organizational commitment on employee satisfaction by means of structural equation model. For these purposes, in this study, the questionnaire was applied to the white-collar employees working at Turkish Hardcoal Enterprise (TTK) and at the end of this study, it has been found out that there has been a considerable increase in organizational commitment as a result of the work-life balance and that the work-life balance has not been founded a direct and meaningful effect on the employee satisfaction. However, that the organizational commitment has increased the employee satisfaction has been identified.

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Work , life balance , organizational commitment , employee satisfaction , structural equation modeling

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Ege Academic Review (EAR)