A study on the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and work life balance in contemporary work environment

The objective of the current study is to know how organizational citizenship behavior and work-life balance relate in contemporary work environment. The next objective is to study employees’ OCB amidst hybrid work environment, another objective is to study the difference in OCB &WLB on the gender, marital status, designation and year of experience of working professionals. The hypothesis was that there will be no significant relationship between OCB and WLB with respect the variables under study. Total of 150 participants from across the organizations are considered for the study. The scales used for the study are Organization Citizenship Behavior scale by Podsakoff, (1990) which had 24 items and work life balance scale which had 36 items from the book on Training Instruments in HRD and OD by Pareek, U., and Purohit,S. (2018). The results will be analyzed Using t-tests to measure the mean difference between the groups. The new age work environment is changing and since the advent of covid -19, corporates have changed the way they function like working in blended mode, work from home, flexi timings etc. Thus, the study will help to the organizations to design their training programs for the new age employees to develop organization citizenship behavior as it will motivate employees, increase in the productivity and better employee retention. This will also support developing training programs in educating the employees for OCB and manage the work life balance effectively.