WORK-LIFE BALANCE DIMENSIONS AND BUSINESS EDUCATORS CURRICULUM PRACTICES IN UNIVERSITIES IN RIVERS STATE

Professor Margaret E. Akpomi, Dr Christian O. Ikpesu

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This study established the correlation between business educators work-life balance and curriculum practices in Universities in Rivers State. In achieving the purpose of the study, two research questions were posed and two hypotheses tested to determine the extent of interactions between time management, stress management and business educators curriculum practices. In addition, the population which consisted of 48 business educators in the three universities in Rivers State, was also adopted as the sample. The respondents responded to the validated five-point rating scale to determine the influence of time management and stress management as essential components of work-life balance on curriculum practices by business educators in the universities. Apart from the above, the reliability of instruments was obtained through test re-test method and analyzed by PPMC having coefficients 0.78 and 0.85 respectively. The bivariate data collected from respondents were analyzed by SPSS Version 23 using PPMC statistics and t-transformation which established the strength of the significance. Empirical evidence revealed that time management was found to strongly associate with business educators curriculum practices in universities as good time management increases their productivity, flexibility to attend other personal obligations and effective stress management in workplace. Based on the findings, the authors recommended that Business Educators should constantly maintain physical and mental health to have healthy balance between career, family, and leisure activities.

Keywords:Curriculum practices, Time management, Stress and Stress management, Work-life balance


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