Supervisor support and work-life balance: Impacts on job performance in the Australian financial sector

A.K.M. Talukder, PhD, recently completed his Doctorate and teaches Enterprise Leadership, Managing People at Work, and Business Society and Policy at School of Business, Western Sydney University, Australia. He holds an MBA degree from Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Universite Libra de Bruxelles, Belgium. Previously, He has taught Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning and Policy, Management Skills Development, and Organisational Behaviour at School of Business, North South University, Bangladesh. He has also served many years in corporations both home and abroad. His research interest encompasses work-life balance, well-being, resilience, job satisfaction, training, and employee performance, and published and presented several articles and conference papers.

Margaret Vickers, BBus, MBA, PhD, is a Professor of Management at School of Business, Western Sydney University, Australia. She is an acclaimed expert in workplace adversity, and associated health and equity issues, including: workplace bullying; workers with disability and chronic illness; resilience; layoffs and redundancies; carer issues; and, emotions and grief in the workplace. She is widely published internationally, including over 170 international refereed articles and Professor Vickers is renowned for her interdisciplinary, qualitative and mixed methods research. She is currently a member of ten international journal editorial boards.

Aila Khan, PhD, completed her Doctorate in 2012 and is a Lecturer in Marketing at Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research interests include social marketing and community well-being. Aila is a keen user of structural equation modelling. However, she has also experimented with both NVivo and Leximancer to analyse qualitative data. Aila’s collaborative work spans across a number of disciplines such as business, engineering, agriculture and religious studies. More recently, her work has involved social media analytics for which she has co-authored two book chapters. Aila has published in A-ranked journals such as Journal of Business Research and Tobacco Control. Aila has also undertaken engaged research projects with key industry partners.