ABSTRACT
Regarding the World Health Organization’s (WHO) plan for 2020 to eradicate polio globally, Indonesia is one of the countries that supported this, the program is called polio eradication. A life-science company in Indonesia revealed that the company’s profit had decreased significantly because of the program. In order to survive in a competitive environment, the company must be able to follow the pattern of change. Organizational culture naturally depends on the market situation and needs to adapt to it in order to survive or to maintain its competitive position. Organizational culture change in the life science company brought about problems in balancing in work and family life of the employees. This work–life balance concept has not yet received special attention in Indonesia. Employees with high work–life balance tend to have high subjective well-being and have positive outcomes at work. Employees with higher subjective well-being tend to be more productive in the work place and also predicted organizational performance. This study examines employee’s work–life balance and the subjective well-being of 146 employees at a life science company in Indonesia. We used the work–life balance questionnaire from Fisher et al. (2009). Subjective well-being instrument has two parts, namely the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) to see the degree of overall life satisfaction, and the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE) to see how often respondents experience positive or negative feelings. Results of the correlation between work–life balance and subjective well-being are low (0.240). Demographic characteristics also did not impact the work–life balance and subjective well-being of respondents. Future research should provide a greater understanding regarding how subjective well-being is related to other dependent variables such as person organization fit because employees will be more interested in organizations that have the same values, beliefs, and so on instead, especially in Indonesia. Research in Indonesia showed that person organization fit has a strong correlation with subjective well-being, the same result as research by Park et al. (2011). The higher alignment of values, goals, needs, and personality of the individual with the organization, the higher the subjective well-being of employees.
