2. RESEARCH GAP
• Extensive literature survey confirmed
that not much research work have
been carried to find out whether
emotional intelligence will lead to a
better work life balance among
female Doctors in Indian health care
context and particularly with
Puducherry Region.
3. • Emotional intelligence can be described as “the
ability of individuals to understand their own and
other people's emotions, distinguish between
different feelings and tag them suitably to adjust
to different environments or achieve target”.
• It plays an important role in the professional life
in the organization. It helps in evaluating
employee behaviour, management style, attitude,
interpersonal skills and potential.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
4. WORK LIFE BALANCE
• Work-life balance is the term used to describe
practices in achieving a balance between the
demands of employees’ family (life) and work
lives.
• The demands and pressures of work make
difficult to widen time for balancing both work
life and personal life activities.
• Women taking up work- life balance as a
challenge; this shows an impact on women’s
advancement.
5. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1. To examine the important factors that affects the
Emotional Intelligence and Work life balance of
female doctors
2. To find out the association between Emotional
intelligence and the demographic variables
3. To find out the association between Work life
balance and the demographic variables
4. To study the influence of Emotional intelligence
on Work life balance among female doctors
5. To study the relationship between Emotional
intelligence and Work life balance
6. Measurement scale
• Emotional intelligence - Emotional
Competency Inventory (ECI) developed by
Daniel Goleman. It measures 20
competencies, organized into the four
constructs outlined by Goleman's model: self
awareness, self regulation, self motivation and
social competence.
• Work Life balance - 14-item scale adapted
from an instrument developed and reported
by Fisher-Mc Auley et al. (2003)
7. PILOT STUDY
• A Pilot Study was conducted among 30 Female
doctors in some of the Hospitals in Puducherry
• The data collected from the Pilot study was
used to check the reliability of the
Questionnaire
• Using SPSS (Version 22), A Cronbach’s Alpha test
was conducted to check the reliability of the
Questionnaire
• The results of the test revealed a value:
Cronbach’s Alpha No. of items
.950 67
8. SAMPLE DESIGN
Population:
Female Doctors working in Hospitals (More than
100 Beds) at Puducherry
The total population of the study from 11
Hospitals (more then 100 beds) stands to be 1185
Sampling method:
Simple random sampling
Sample Size:
Using Morgan Table, the sample size for 1185
population at a confidence interval 95% and
margin of error 5% stands to be 291 approx. 300
