A SYSTEMATIC MAPPING WITH BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE AMONGST B-SCHOOL ACADEMICIANS

Abstract

Academicians play a crucial role in nation-building and strive to impart quality education. They face a lot of daily struggles to find and maintain a work-life balance because of the dual responsibility of building a nation and instilling moral/ethical values among family members. They find it hard to separate their professional and personal life. Stress, along with changes in job responsibilities at the institute and university level, has increased the importance of research on the work-life balance conflict among academicians. This topic is crucial to study and has gained so much attention among academicians over a few years. The primary objective of this research is to use bibliometric analysis to determine the key variables of Work-Life Balance influencing business school academicians. Since B school academicians are shouldering the primary responsibility of dealing with Gen Y, they need to be more aware of their duties and responsibilities towards society. By using the keywords work-life balance, work-life integration, academicians, teachers, and academicians, the bibliographic records and references were retrieved from the Scopus database. A total of 6,884 documents were published over the 12 years, i.e., from 2011 to 2023. The numbers gradually increased from 2019 and peaked in 2023, precisely after COVID-19. However, due to the limitation of language, subject area, and branch specification, i.e. study limited to B School academicians, only 152 documents were selected for further studies. The VOS viewer software tool and Bibliometric R package were used for data capturing, analysis, and visualisation related to annual publications, co-occurrence of authors, subject/branch-wise research papers distribution, and factors affecting academicians’ work-life balance. According to the Scopus analysis, the subjects of business, management, and accounting and the articles published during the year 2023 occupy an essential role in work-life balance studies. The co-occurrence analysis identifies the most relevant terms and their relationships. In this analysis, 108 items are identified and grouped in 11 clusters. Personal and organisational factors: family demand, family income, family conflict, family support, income ratio, workload, working environment, culture, and job satisfaction are the primary factors influencing the work-life balance of B School academicians.