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.

Work Life Balance of Working Parents: A study of IT Industry

Abstract: Managing the competing demands of work, family and social life is an issue that affects almost every organization. Work life balance is a challenging issue for IT professionals whether male or female as increasing working hours and monitoring the hours worked are far more rigorous than ever before. This paper explores the gender wise perception of work life balance among working parents of I.T. Industry and also examines the impact of work life balance on working parents’ personal and professional life. The Data was thus collected from 200 working parents of IT industry through questionnaire by adopting random sampling technique. The statistical techniques used were ttest, Correlation and Regression Analysis. Findings depicted no significance differences in the perception of male and female towards work life balance. It also revealed high degree of positive correlation of 0.909 and 0.742 between work life balance and working parent’s personal and professional life respectively. And high impact of work life balance on working parent’s personal and professional life.

The impact of career success on work life balance for millennium generation

Abstract: Today’s workplace consists of mainly four generations; silence, baby boomer, X and Y generations. Although each generation has different values, beliefs, point of views, they are working altogether. This demographic diversity has brought many opportunities but also challenges for the organization. In order to manage the opportunities and challenges in the workplace which the varieties of generations bring up, each generation should be very well understood. Otherwise it can cause problems which in turn may influence the productivity and efficiency of the organization. As time passes and the new generation – Millennium- is appeared it in the workplace, the needs’ and perceptions’ of the employees also start to change too. Managing both work and private life in balance becomes important for the employees. Thus, the notion of work life balance has been started to handle by the managers. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact and consequences of work-life balance for generation Millennium which is the youngest majority of current workforce by considering their values, and their perceptions and expectations from their career success.

An Analysis of Effectiveness and Challenges in Implementation of Employee Retention Management System (ERMS) in Hotel Industry of Pune City

Abstract: The rapid growth in Pune city has created a great demand for the hospitality skilled personnel but has resulted in a high attrition rate in recent years. Hotels now days are focusing upon certain Human Resource practices pertaining to areas of "Turnover Management", "Retention Management", "Talent Management", "Succession planning", "Compensation Management", "Motivation Techniques", "Work Life Balance" etc. the study is in a category of descriptive research and has studied various existing practices of ERM System followed by hotels in Pune city and will include surveys by means of a questionnaire and fact finding enquiries of different kinds. HR department of the hotel not only has to come up with effective system to ensure employee satisfaction but also have to make a conscious effort to cope up with the challenges pertaining to employee retention. Hotels in Pune could adopt effective ERM System which has a great impact on stay back of employees.

Information and Communication Technologies and Work-Life Balance: Practical Recommendations for Employers and Individuals

Abstract: For decades, the number and frequency of individuals who work from home has gradually increased, in many ways as a result of emergent Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This gradual increase, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has weathered away boundaries between work at work and work at home, with some positive and many negative outcomes. Currently, however, because of a global pandemic which necessitates ICTs for working from home, the impact that organizational technology assimilation has on the way that people engage with each other is increasingly important. This chapter reviews theory and research regarding organizational technology and concludes with pragmatic recommendations for individuals and organizations regarding work-related technology use at home.