Work life Balance of Millennial Dual Career Couples and its Impact on Organizational Culture: An Explorative Study in Textile Sector of Gujarat

Abstract

Apart from the observation that the millennial male is more liberal in shedding the portfolio of male dominated roles and approaching a egalitarian approach in sharing roles with his female partner, the organizational policies is not providing the required compatibility with their young employees. This leads to multiple negative outcomes like organizational stress and attrition.  Majority of the existing organizations were conceived by the generation X with their ideologies. This is proved fact there is an ever existing conflict between the two generation thoughts and mindsets which leads to negative outcomes many times. On this note, we can forecast that the concepts like work life balance is very crucial for the future healthy work force.The objective of the study is to analyze the relation between the work life balance and organizational culture of the millennial males in the private sector of Gujarat. The millennial approached in the study are married and their spouse and also full time professionals. This arrangement has lead to enhanced requirement of the concepts like work life balance with the support from their workplace. The data collected for the research was through “Stratified Random Sampling” technique. Over 400 questionnaire were circulated in textile sector of Gujarat, out of which we received 374 responses. Questionnaire on “Work Life Balance”by Dr Reena Shah for understanding work life balance and “OCTAPACE”by Professor T V Rao to understand the organizational culture.