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Impact of Work-Life Balance, Happiness at Work, on Employee Performance

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the Relation of work-life balance, happiness, and employee performance, Accordingly, a questionnaire-based survey was designed to test the aforementioned model based on dataset of 289 employees’ from the ( Med Pharma), Pharmaceutical industries in Jordan, Multiple regression was conducted to examined the research hypotheses. The results indicated that work-life balance and happiness positively and significantly affect employee performance. However, job satisfaction non-impact in employee performance. The results have enormous implication for the Pharmaceutical industries sector in Jordan.

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  • Khaled adnan Bataineh, 2019. "Impact of Work-Life Balance, Happiness at Work, on Employee Performance," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(2), pages 99-112, February.
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    • C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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