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Item The Moderating Effect of Ethnicity on Relationship between Role Demands and Work-Life Balance among Women Lecturers in Sri Lanka(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Welmilla, I.Women lecturers participate in various work and life roles, which can create challenges when trying to balance the pressures and responsibilities associated with each role. This study is particularly relevant for women in the teaching profession specially for the university lecturers. The current study seeks to argue that the constructs of role demands and ethnicity have been neglected in the work-life balance literature in Sri Lankan context. The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating effect of ethnicity on role demand and the work-life balance of women lecturers in Sri Lanka. Therefore, the study examines the relationship between two aspects of role demands (work and family) and work-life balance among women lecturers in Sri Lanka as well as the role of ethnic identity as a moderator of the relationship. First, to investigate the direct relationship, two exogenous constructs; work demand and family demand and two endogenous constructs namely work satisfaction, family satisfaction were identified. Next, the study was to decide whether the relationship between role demands and work-life balance among women lecturers in Sri Lanka differ on the basis of ethnicity. To test this, ethnicity used as moderating variable and considered the two major ethnic groups in Sri Lanka namely, Sinhala and Tamil. The sample has been selected through random sampling and quantitative research approach has been applied. A questionnaire survey was used to gather data from women lecturers in state universities in Sri Lanka. There were 265 responses were obtained. The structural equation model was used in analyzing the data. First, the result of the study demonstrates that the significant negative relationship between role demands and work-life balance, and it fills a gap in the literature by validating the associations between role demands and work-life balance dimensions. Finally, the study shows that the relationship between role demands and work-life balance is not moderated by ethnic identity. This result is remarkable as this is the first study that presented the outcome of relationships between role demands and work-life balance among women lecturers’ in Sri Lanka as not differing on the basis of ethnicity. This study recognized that women lecturers can improve work life balance by balancing work and family role demands. Furthermore, it was implied that when living under the same economic and social system different ethnic groups gain similar perceptions.Item Role Demand and Work Life Balance Experiences in Sri Lankan Women Employees in Different Ethnic and Cultural Groups: A Conceptual Model.(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Welmilla, I.This study proposed a framework for the moderating effect of different Ethnic groups and cultural groups on the impact of role demands and work life balance (WLB) of Sri Lankan women academics. The global trend of women participation in their career is increased considerably. As increasing the dual career earners and single parent (only women), more employees are now playing dual role as an employee and a parent, which means they are combining work and family roles simultaneously. The majority of studies of WLB experiences carried out under western country context. There limited studies examined the moderation effect of cultures and ethnicities on WLB experiences in those countries. However, the results of the past studies of developed countries, were lacking of inconsistency. Furthermore, there is a dearth of research that addressed how culture and ethnicity influence the role demands and WLB experience of women employees in different ethnic groups in the developing countries like Sri Lanka. Moreover, no studies have been conducted to determine the moderating effect these two variables like culture, ethnicity on the relationship role demand and WLB experience in Sri Lanka. In order to bridge the gap in the literature, this study proposes a conceptual model identifying two moderating variables; culture and ethnicity based on the extensive review of the literature. Hence, a research framework has been propounded to determine the relationships between the constructs in a future study. This conceptual model is significant to provide information regarding an association between role demands (work and family), satisfaction (work and family) and interferences (workinterfere and family interfere). Furthermore, through the model it can identify the moderation effect of ethnicity (Sinhalese and Tamil) on relationship between role demand and WLB experiences and moderation effect of cultural dimension of collectivism vs. individualism on relationship between role demand and WLB experiences of Sri Lankan women. In addition, the conceptual model will serve as additional literature on the role demand and WLB experiences among women employees in Sri Lanka that has not been explored.