WORK-FAMILY INTERFACE AND QUALITY OF WORK-LIFE OF BANK EMPLOYEES IN SELECTED BANKS IN PORT HARCOURT

Nkpah, Young Aakpege

Department of Sociology,

University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

E-mail:youngitize2020@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

In this study on work-family interface and quality of work life of bank employees using (10) ten banks in port Harcourt metropolis, attempt has been made to elucidate  bank working system with particular reference to gauging the prevailing work-family conflict of bank staff in relation to the engineering of quality of worklife. The study revealed that effect differences by gender is not biologically given but rather socially derived; it also revealed that an individual experience within the family and within the workplace can simultaneously benefit and undermine functioning at home and at work which greatly influence his perceive quality of worklife. The study recommends that various provisions for quality of worklife (QWL) should be made proportional to the number of staff designed to work in the bank. Such outcomes should be appraised on the basis of code of corporate governance for banks in Nigeria post consolidation by CBN.

Keywords: Work –family interface(WFI), Quality of worklife (QWL), Meso-system, Macro-system, Micro –system.