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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between flexible work arrangements, employee job satisfaction and work-life balance in Jordanian private airlines. The design of this study has quantitative approach. Data was obtained by questionnaire instrument. Random sampling was used in this study. A sample of 95 employees was studied and SPSS 20 was used for the analysis of data based on descriptive statistics. The results have confirmed that flexible work arrangements have positive and significant impact both on employee job satisfaction and work-life balance.
Key Words:
Flexible Work Arrangements, Work/life balance, Job satisfaction, Jordanian Private Airlines
Introduction
Today's, flexibility is increasingly recognized as a strategic tools of providing a way to manage space, time, and employees more effectively within the uncertainty of environment and the down turning of global economy. It become as a key policy adopted to develop a stronger, more viable firms with committed, more productive employees. According to (Apgar, 1998) offering flexibility is productive mechanism that human resource management can help create effective association between employees and company goals. If firms can boost people objectives then the positive effect can lead to long term efficiency and effectiveness to the firm by achieving business goals (Greenhaus & Parasuraman 1997). Business organizations are continually developing strategies to reduce costs, improve competitiveness, maximize employees' productivity and offer a culture that helps employees in maintaining work life balance. However, employees strive to be productive at the workplace but not at the expense of sacrificing their personal life (Harris, 2004). Barber et al (2005) point out that firm must continuously develop new strategies and cost effective means to satisfy the needs of its employees. Schieman & Young (2010) suggest that formal workplace flexibility policies if line up with employees demands rather than being imposed from outside they may become as a valuable resource to help employees balance their work and family issues. To this end, the use of flexible work arrangements which include different types like job sharing, flextime, compressed work week, and telecommuting has increased over the course of the last decades (Grantham et al, 2009). Rau (2003) defined flexible work arrangements as work outside of company hub or the schedule working hours and workweek hours, and without the spatial...