Professional Communication for Better Work-Life Balance

Abstract

The quality of one’s work life is determined by the type of communication that takes place in the one’s organization. Formal and informal communications are important in workplace in order to sustain mental and physical vigour, and interest of the workforce. An attempt is being made, through this research study, to prove that ‘How Communication’ influences and contributes for the well being of the employees as well as success of the organizations. This paper discusses one of the prominent professional communication strategies namely, face to face communication and its impact on employee work-life balance. This study is undertaken by taking few select organizations in IT sector especially at managerial cadre as a sample for effectiveness of face to face communication in attaining employee work-life balance.

Keywords: Work-life balance, Strategies for communication, Motivation, Face-to-face communication, Conflict resolution, Sustaining relationship