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    Worklife Balance and Employee Performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Kiambu County, Kenya
    (Kenyatta University, 2025-05) Ngugi, Joan Njeri
    Employees across the world often face several challenges in order to manage work life balance, ranging from matters concerning their private lives and families. Such challenges have resulted in stress, burn out, dissatisfaction among employees, poor employee performance, low organizational productivity as well as a lack of proper organizational direction. In an attempt to implement work life balance, public universities have experienced challenges. Nonetheless, their employee’s performance in Kiambu, Kenya has been criticized because of unpredictable and unsatisfactory performance. Previous studies on the same have also paid less attention to the role of work-life balance, oblivious of the fact that empirical backing exists that it has momentous impact on employee performance. Statistics show a significant decline in the employee performance at JKUAT. This study therefore sought to establish the influence of work-life balance on employee performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in Kiambu County, Kenya. Specifically, the study sought to examine the influence of stress management, time management, self-management and employee development on employee performance in JKUAT. The study was guided by Conservation of Resources (COR) Theory, Goal-Setting Theory, Self-Determination Theory (SDT) and Human Capital Theory. The study used descriptive research design. The target population of this study will be both Teaching and Non-teaching senior officers of JKUAT in Kenya. The total approximated population of the senior officers 2,500 persons. The researcher used proportionate stratified random sampling technique to select 345 respondents from the target population, the researcher divided the population into different strata based on certain characteristics, and then selecting a proportionate number of samples from each stratum. This technique ensures that each subgroup, or stratum, is represented in the final sample in proportion to its size in the overall population. The researcher collected both primary and secondary data for the study Secondary data was collected through the review of literature that was done on JKUAT. Primary data was collected through use of semi structured questionnaires. The study also conducted pilot test to test the content and construct validity and the reliability of the data collection instrument. An acceptable value of Cronbach alpha is 0.7 or more, a value that is lower than 0.7 is questionable. The data collection instrument generated both qualitative and quantitative data. The study used both descriptive and inferential statistics for data analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 25). Descriptive statistics such as mean, standard deviation, frequency and percentages were used in this study. In relation to inferential statistics, the study used correlation analysis. This was used to establish the relationship between the independent and the dependent variables. Data was then presented in a tables, bar charts and pie charts. The study findings benefit the government of Kenya and policy makers, the management of public universities in Kenya, researchers and academicians. The study found that stress management has a positive and significant effect on employee performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology (JKUAT) in Kiambu County, Kenya. In addition, the study found that time management has a positive and significant effect on employee performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology (JKUAT) in Kiambu County, Kenya. Further, the study found that self-management has a positive and significant effect on employee performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology (JKUAT) in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study found that employee development has a positive and significant effect on employee performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture And Technology (JKUAT) in Kiambu County, Kenya. From the findings, the study concludes that stress management, time management, self-management and employee development has a positive
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    Worklife Balance and Employee Performance in Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Kiambu County, Kenya
    (Journal of Social Sciences Management and Entrepreneurship, 2024-11) Ngugi, Joan Njeri; Muli, Jedidah