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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors define work-life balance and describe the key issues internationally affecting employees' worklife balance or worklife harmony, the key practices organizations are using to help their employees balance the demands of work and personal life are also offered.
Abstract: This short article defines work-life balance and describes the key issues internationally affecting employees' work-life balance or work-life harmony. The key practices organizations are using to help their employees balance the demands of work and personal life are also offered. The practices for helping employees and their families during international assignments which require relocation to another country (or expatriate assignments), a particularly stressful activity, are also listed.
Keywords:
work-life balance;
work-family balance;
work-life conflict;
stress;
expatriation
2 citations
01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: Work/life balance researchers have documented the low take-up rates of corporate work-life balance policies at the same time as there are reports of persistent work/life pressures.
Abstract: Work/life balance researchers have documented the low take-up rates of corporate work/life balance policies at the same time as there are reports of persistent work/life pressures This research aims to provide more comprehensive explanations of the phenomenon of low policy take-up than those currently available in the work/life balance literature which focus on organisational and individual factors The research project is based on a critical review of the work/life balance literature which focuses on organisational solutions and starts from the assumption that the organisational approach to researching and addressing work/life conflicts is inherently limited, mainly because it does not theorise gender as a social structure and does not take into consideration the social and political context in which work/life arrangements are negotiated but focuses, instead, on individual employees and organisations I integrated my critical review of the organisational work/life balance literature with concepts in the feminist literature, most importantly the gendered public/private divide, to create an explicit ‘gender lens’ which guides the interpretations of my findings I applied this gender lens to Habermas’ model of societal evolution to operationalise it as an analytical tool for this research From this theoretical basis, I designed a comparative research project, using Australia and Sweden as country case studies, which compares the approaches to work/life balance in the two countries The focus of the analysis is on parental leave as one important example of work/life balance policies The data for this research includes the parental leave legislation, public documents released by governments and associated bodies as well as national surveys on the take-up of parental leave provisions in both countries This material is analysed in the light of the conceptual framework []%%%%Doctor of Philosophy
2 citations
15 Apr 2018
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the work-life balance, job satisfaction and intention to leave the job of bakery employees in Mersin province, Turkey, and found that the employees are satisfied with their work and do not consider leaving.
Abstract: The aim of the research is to examine the work-life balance, job satisfaction and intention to leave the job of bakery employees. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to the employees of the bakery in Mersin province between March-June 2017. Frequency analysis and descriptive analysis were performed on 370 available surveys. As a result of the analysis, it has been found that the bakery employees’ private lives affect their business life, but even so the employees are satisfied with their work and do not consider leaving.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of leave policies, employer supported access to child care, alternative work scheduling, and a culture of family support on work-life balance (WLB) were investigated with a nationwide sample of state government employees.
Abstract: Family-friendly policies and culture are important components of creating a healthy work environment and are positively related to work outcomes for public employees and organizations. Furthermore, family-friendly policies and culture are critical mechanisms for supporting the careers and advancement of women in public service and enhancing gender equity in public sector employment. While both policies and culture can facilitate women’s participation in the public sector workforce, they may affect men and women differently. Using data from a 2011 study with a nationwide sample of state government employees, we investigate the effects of employee take-up of leave policies, employer supported access to child care, alternative work scheduling, and a culture of family support on work–life balance (WLB). We examine where these variables differ in their effects on WLB among men and women and make specific recommendations to further WLB among women. The results inform the literature on family-friendly policies and culture in public organizations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study on work life balance dilemmas faced by nurses working in private hospitals based on primary sources of data and to some extent secondary sources.
Abstract: At present every successful employee has to pass through the dilemma of work life balance in personal and professional life. For the sake of leading a successful life, people do not hesitate to give extra time for achieving the objectives of life. In the process of getting extra mileage in their professional life they have to make a lot of compromise and sometimes mental piece also gets distorted. We have 24 hours at our disposal to deal with and it is up to us how to schedule and plan the same. It is rightly pointed out by experts, if our life span is 60 years (assumed to be) and if we sleep for 8 hours per day, than 20 years of our life span we used for sleeping only. So planning of our own time is important. At the end of the day priority matters a lot. In addition, relationships suffer and the person begins to experience loneliness and depression. The psychotherapist believes that mid-career professionals are most prone to having work-life imbalances. In the present paper it is an attempt by authors to present a study on work life balance dilemmas faced by nurses working in private hospitals. This study is based on primary sources of data and to some extent secondary sources. Various authentic journals, books and literature on the subject, newspapers, magazines, reports and studies were referred for the conceptual frame work of the study. The analysis is carried out on the basis of socio economic profile and general perception towards the personal and professional life.
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