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    Work Life Balance, Psychological Safety and Employee Engagement among Teachers in Government Aided Primary Schools in Gulu City.
    (2024) Thociba, Patricia
    The purpose of the study was to determine the predictive potential of work-life balance and psychological safety on employee engagement among teachers in Government Aided Primary Schools in Gulu City. The study used quantitative and cross-sectional research design. A sample size of 191 teachers were selected out of 378 teachers guided by Krejcie and Morgan (1970) sample size determination table. Validity and reliability of the instruments showed that all variables under the study were reliable with Cronbach’s alpha for all of the variables measuring above 0.70. The researcher issued questionnaires to 191 teachers in 21 government aided primary schools and received questionnaires from 165 teachers giving a response rate of 86.4%. The findings showed a significant positive association between work life balance and employee engagement. There was a positive significant relationship between psychological safety and employee engagement implying that the level of work life balance and physiological safety is associated with employee engagement. The result further showed that work life balance predicts employee engagement by 51.2% while psychological safety predicts employee engagement by 62.7%. When the task at hand is executed with the maximum possible efficiency, there is a reduction in risk. The division of work ensures that the work is done on time and deadlines are not extended. A fair work distribution ensures that every teacher or every working unit, executes any task at hand, with the best possible efficiency. School management should give some freedom for teachers to make decision to pursue their goals in the school, offer opportunities for personal growth and development, sense of achievement and utilize all their talents and skills. The management should also involve teachers in the decision-making process. This will enhance and improve teacher engagement because the teachers will be empowered to take timely decisions to address the staff grievances. Moreover, the teachers are the main sources of innovative ideas which help the schools to sustain a meaningful relationship with the students. The researcher recommends that the management of government aided primary schools should put more emphasis on psychological safety since it has more predictive power (62.7%) on employee engagement, school heads should ensure that there is an equal and fair distribution of work within the school. Management should also reward best performing teams who achieve on termly basis or yearly basis. This would encourage the rest of the teaching staff to working harder to benefit from such reward as a result, teacher engagement would be achieved. The result of this study can be used by the management to formulate policy regarding teacher engagement within government aided primary schools by considering work life balance and psychological safety.