‘MENSTRUAL LEAVE’ A LUXURY OR NESSACITY- AN INTROSPECTION’
Abstract
The rising numbers of women involved in workforce makes it vital to adopt menstrual leave policy as the fundamental policy for every business organization. Despite its importance, organizations are still unsure and reluctant to embed menstrual leave policy in their human resource policy. The study aims to evaluate the effect of employees’ perception toward menstrual leave policy on job performance and mental health. Standardized questionnaire was used to collect the data from (N=200) employees of IT and academic sector. Data has been analyzed using Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability Test, Exploratory Factor Analysis,), Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) on Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results indicate that mental health contributes 68.6 percent to job performance and perception of employees toward menstrual leave policy contributes 18.6 percent. There is significant intervention of mental between the relationship between perception of employees toward menstrual leave policy and job performance.
Keyword : perception of employees, menstrual leave policy, mental health, job performance
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