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Today, creating work-life balance is among the most important concerns of employees of organizations. In other words, the most successful employees are those who can manage to create a balance between their work and life. Development of flexible plans in organizations is an instrument in doing so. Hospitals are among the organizations in which executing flexible plans among employees (i.e. nurses) is more justified. The statistical population of the present research included all the nurses working at the hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 220 subjects were selected. The content validity of the research was confirmed by a panel of experts as well as using conformity factor analysis. The reliability of the research instrument was also tested and approved using Cronbach's coefficient alpha. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS and Lisrel software. The results of the structural equation model showed that work-life balance had a significant effect on job attitude (i.e. job satisfaction, job attachment, and tendencytowards job relinquishment). At the end, the applied implications of the study are discussed.
 

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