Abstract:
The study sought to examine the effect of work-life balance on job satisfaction
of Ghana Police Service in Cape Coast Metropolis. The study employed the
descriptive survey design and conveniently sampled 155 police officers using
stratified sampling technique. The findings established that there was no
statistically significant relationship between sex and work-life balance. Also,
junior officers were adversely affected by work-life conflict compared to senior
officers. Married police officers experienced work-life conflict as compared to
the single police officers. Long working hours, lack of initiative by institutional
heads, pressure and demands of work were some of the organizational factors
that adversely affected work-life balance. With respect to personal factors,
police officers were not happy with free or leisure hours, sleeping hours and
time spend with their partners/families. It was unraveled that work-life balance
could statistically significantly influence and predict job satisfaction [F (1,153)
= 17.337, r = .296, p = .0036] of police officers. It was recommended that
management should enforce the policy on brief sabbatical leave with pay, part-
time work, logistics for work, provision of incentives and allowance and the fact
that they cannot take office work home occasionally to enhance work-life
balance and improve morale among officers.
