IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL STRESS ON WORK LIFE BALANCE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE

The purpose of the study is to review the literature on impact of occupational stress on work life balance, to understand the study area where the study is undertaken, to know the findings of the studies conducted in national and international level, to identify the research gap at national and international level and to identify the scope for future research. The methodology used for the present study is research papers published in different journals are collected for the period of 2020 to 2024 and reviewed based on the common characteristics. The summarized the finding of studies conducted in international level and in India in different study areas to find the research gap for further research and it is concluded that, international studies on relationship and impact of conflict at work, job environment, job requirement, role ambiguity, job security and workload on work life balance have been studied and found the significant relationship between these and also found that there is significant impact of occupational stress and work life balance on job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Whereas Indian studies also found the same.