Publication Type
Working Paper
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
2-2020
Abstract
This paper is the first to investigate the role of work-life balance in financial analysts’ performance and career advancement. Using a large sample of Glassdoor reviews by financial analysts, we find a significant non-linear relation between work-life balance satisfaction and analyst performance and analyst career advancement. Specifically, when work-life balance satisfaction is relatively low, an increase in work-life balance is associated with better analyst performance and career advancement; however, when perceived work-life balance is already high, a further increase in work-life balance is associated with worse analyst performance and career advancement.
Keywords
Analysts, Work-Life Balance, Job Satisfaction, Performance, Promotion, Labor Market, Social Media, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, All-Star
Discipline
Finance and Financial Management | Human Resources Management | Industrial and Organizational Psychology | Portfolio and Security Analysis
Research Areas
Corporate Reporting and Disclosure
First Page
1
Last Page
71
Publisher
Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper No. 2019-96
City or Country
Singapore
Embargo Period
4-28-2020
Citation
HOPE, Ole-Kristian; LI, Congcong; LIN, An-Ping; and RABIER, MaryJane.
Happy analysts. (2020). 1-71.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1836
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3251602
Included in
Finance and Financial Management Commons, Human Resources Management Commons, Industrial and Organizational Psychology Commons, Portfolio and Security Analysis Commons
Comments
Also presented at 29th Annual Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting 2018, November 16-17, New Orleans, LA