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Work–life balance
About: Work–life balance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2252 publications have been published within this topic receiving 36240 citations. The topic is also known as: Work Life balance & work-life balance.
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The issue of work-life balance in regard to informal care work and the impacts it has upon informal carers' lives is brought to the fore and how computer technologies can potentially support achieving some balance is addressed.
Abstract: This paper draws attention to the issue of work-life balance in regard to informal care work and the impacts it has upon informal carers' lives. Through this paper, we bring this discussion to the fore and address how computer technologies can potentially support achieving some balance in this regard. This discussion is made in the context of TOPIC 1 , a European project aiming at the development of an on-line platform
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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach was adopted to investigate work-life balance practices and person-organization fit as antecedents of faculty members' turnover intention.
Abstract: The higher educational institutions in Pakistan are facing challenges to reduce the turnover of their faculty members. To date, research has failed to explore the antecedents of faculty members’ turnover intention, especially in the context of Pakistan. The purpose of this study was to investigate work-life balance practices and person-organization fit as antecedents of faculty members’ turnover intention. This study hypothesized that work-life balance practices and person-organization fit are negatively related to intention to leave the job. Furthermore, the study proposed that person-organization fit mediates the negative relationship between work-life balance practices and intention to leave the job. This study adopted a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach. The data was collected from a total of 250 faculty members from the public sector colleges in Baluchistan, Pakistan, through self-administered questionnaires. This study used partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for the analysis of measurement and structural model. The results revealed that work-life balance practices and person-organization fit had a direct negative and significant effect on employees' intention to leave the job. Furthermore, the results also showed that person-organization fit mediated the relationship between work-life balance practices and intention to leave the job. This study contributes to work-life balance practices and person-organization fit literature by examining the mediating processes through which work-life balance practices and intention to leave are linked. These findings provide important implications for human resource professionals to reduce the turnover of faculty members. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed.
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TL;DR: This article found that a healthy work-life balance is associated with job satisfaction, job performance, and ethical decision-making, while gender differences are associated with work life balance, which is a challenge for working people to find the balance between career and personal life.
Abstract: Finding the balance between career and personal life has always been a challenge for working people. Work-life balance refers to people spending sufficient time at their jobs while also spending adequate time on other pursuits, such as family, hobbies, and community involvement. This study addresses two research questions. The first examines the importance people place on work-life balance. The second considers whether gender differences are associated with work-life balance. Data for analysis was obtained via a survey of future accountants (students near graduation); results indicate that work-life balance is very important in career decisions. Findings reveal that a healthy work-life balance is associated with job satisfaction, job performance, and ethical decision-making. Maslow’s hierarchy theory and McClelland’s motivational needs theory provide theoretical support for understanding people’s motivation to achieve a healthy work-life balance. Gender theory and related research provide theoretical supp...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated about how the lives of female employees are getting affected due to improper balances in their professional and personal life and revealed about what is more obstructing, family obstructs work or work obstructs family and how these imbalances are creating problems.
Abstract: Employees are key asset of the organization & it becomes more obligatory for the employers when it comes to female employees Female employees are playing dual role, one at the workplace and another at their home It is difficult for them to manage both the side Researcher investigated about how the lives of female employees are getting affected due to improper balances in their professional & personal life This paper also reveals about what is more obstructing, family obstructs work or work obstructs family and how these imbalances are creating problems like stress, intention to leave, burnout on the part of female employees This study also recommends what else could be done to improve the work life balances in the life of female employees especially
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TL;DR: Female employees in Nepal are juggled between societal norms, family obligations, and expectations of the organization, and it was recommended that each healthcare organization in Nepal needs to have a gender-balanced work environment and provide equal opportunities to women employees.
Abstract: Background: Females working in health service organizations have ever-increasing pressure to develop their career in higher positions worldwide. Therefore, the study aimed to assess factors influen...
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