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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 paper, the authors explored employees' use of tactics to manage their work and life stress, particularly the executive level employees, using of resources and social support as well as their perceptions of flexibility.
Abstract: Due to the continuous work load pressure leads to increase the employee stress factors. The continuous increase of employee stress levels affects their health physically, mentally and psychologically. The impact of the job stress is not balancing the employee work – life. On behalf of! The stress most of the employees are consuming the alcoholic beverage to overcome the stress. By comparing life as a cycle, one wheel is a work and another wheel is a family life. Both the wheel should run parallel. If load increases on one side, then the life becomes unbalanced. The purpose of this study is to explore employees “use of tactics to manage their work and life stress; particularly the executive level employees” use of resources and social support as well as their perceptions of flexibility. For this research work researcher adopts Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling method to collect the data. A total of 184 executive level employees in Hyundai Motors India Limited was administered work life balancing scales. Chi – square analysis and multiple regression were used for data analysis. The chi – square analysis test for independence at 0.05 level of significance shows that there is no statistically significant association between experiences with their feeling about balancing work life. The result of regression analysis indicated that there is no statistically significant difference between participant’s opinions towards the initiative action taken by the organization to manage their employee work life balance. On the basis of these findings, found that the participants are saying that they are balancing their career and lifestyle with the support of family members.

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01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: In this article, a theory of work-life balance as an area of strategic risk but also of opportunity is developed in this literature-based discussion paper, which is used to support the long-term sustainability of the construction industry.
Abstract: The Australian construction industry is facing a critical shortage of human resources, which is negatively impacting the realisation of both project and organisational objectives. One method of addressing the labour shortage is through the application of strategies designed to assist employees to attain work-life balance. Failure to address employees' work-life balance concerns can negatively impact upon individuals and construction organisations' ability to meet its objectives. Conversely, providing a better work-life balance can improve the construction industry's ability to recruit, develop and retain talented employees and support the long term sustainability of the construction industry. A theory of work-life balance as an area of strategic risk but also of opportunity is developed in this literature based discussion paper.

1 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a survey study was conducted to have an understanding of the major problems faced by small scale women entrepreneurs, which showed that nearly 50% women as entrepreneurs have to play many roles at one time, while a good 40% feel that their life have to suffer seldom due to business work.
Abstract: Background- This survey study was conducted to have an understanding of the major problems faced by small scale women entrepreneurs. For this a pre constructed questionnaire was used. 300 Women entrepreneurs were selected as subjects on Purposive base sampling for the study. They were interviewed personally and were discussed in detail about the relevance for the study and the issues they are facing as entrepreneurs. Result of the study- The result of the study shows that nearly 50% women as entrepreneurs have to play many roles at one time, while a good 40% feel that their life have to suffer seldom due to business work, similarly a 51% strength feels that they find it difficult to attend social and community programme. While 40% women feels that they had to sacrifice many of their family roles for this status. Due to work load and lack of time a 32% women feels that they can’t concentrate better in their business work, a huge 53% admits that due to their work and family issues they are not able to take care of their health. while 42% feel sick at home due to their energy loss in business activities, and 48% have to visit physician frequently for their health problems due to work and 52% admits that their health issues are related to work while a 39% feels that they are fatigued due to work load in the family. Conclusion- Therefore it is the need of the hour that women should get the liberty of choosing her work load and should not be solely responsible for the house chores, rather she should have options available for sharing their house responsibilities .The well distributed job responsibilities will ensure better outcome. Key Words- Entrepreneur, Work Life Balance, Family and Social Roles, Work Load.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework of work life balance in the hospitality industry and present the relation of work-life balance with other major aspects of human resources i.e. job satisfaction, job stress and employee turnover.
Abstract: The present study aims at understanding the Work Life Balance in Hospitality Industry. It is an industry that is labor intensive and requires highly skilled manpower to serve the guests in best possible manner. It is an industry where the service providers work 24 X 7 and working hours for the employees may extend upto 12 hours or even more. Thus, it becomes difficult for the employees to maintain a balance between work and personal life. Thus the present study aims at providing a conceptual framework of work life balance in hospitality industry. The study also presents the relation of work life balance with other major aspects of human resources i.e job satisfaction, job stress and employee turnover.

1 citations

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01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this article , the impact of smartphone usage on school teachers' work-life balance (WLB) in the online mode of education during the COVID-19 pandemic was studied.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of smartphone usage on school teachers’ Work-Life Balance (WLB) in the online mode of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic insisted teachers adopt online teaching using a smartphone, which facilitates many teachers to qualitatively manage their work and family responsibilities during the transformed work mode. The target population of the current research is private school teachers working in all levels of school education across major cities in India namely Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai. Validated structured questionnaires were administered and primary data was gathered from 478 respondents, who were chosen using a convenience sampling technique. The hypothetical relationships among smartphone use, WLB, personal life and job satisfaction are found to be positive, whereas work stress is found to have a significantly negative relationship with WLB, personal life and job satisfaction. Therefore, it is concluded that the pertinent use of smartphones enhances the WLB of school teachers by helping them to meet family and job demands effectively. Copyright © 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023328
2022601
2021171
2020194
2019156
2018167