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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 2005
TL;DR: The authors argue that differences between men and women in work orientations will persist to some extent in the 21st century, in their attitudes, values, life goals and behaviour, and that policy-makers should recognise and accept this fact, and devise realistic, evidence-based policies, rather than relying on wishful thinking to develop utopian unisex policies that will necessarily fail.
Abstract: Are we heading for a unisex workplace in the future? Or will differences between men and women continue to shape their lifestyle choices and work histories? Answers to these questions matter, because they inform, explicitly or implicitly, perspectives on work—life balance, the employment policies of central governments, and the personnel policies of employers. This chapter argues that differences between men and women in work orientations will persist to some extent in the 21st century — in their attitudes, values, life goals and behaviour. Policy-makers should recognise and accept this fact, and devise realistic, evidence-based policies, rather than relying on wishful thinking to develop utopian unisex policies that will necessarily fail.
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TL;DR: Individual experiences of work, work-life balance and, most importantly, recovery seem to be essential areas for health promotion.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: There is a lack of information on positive work factors among health care workers.OBJECTIVE: To explore salutogenic work-related factors among primary health care employees.METHOD: Ques ...
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TL;DR: The authors investigates how labor markets have been interrupted due to the pandemic, focusing especially on manual and non-manual work and the future of the WLB, along with exploring the projected deviations that are driving a foreseeable future policy revolution in work and employment.
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TL;DR: The concept and significance of WLB has not yet been established among nurses in Japan, and nurses who reported good WLB also reported higher job satisfaction and job motivation.
Abstract: Aim. The aim of this study was to examine the awareness of work–life balance (WLB) among the nursing personnel at a university hospital in Japan.
Design. Survey.
Methods. A questionnaire was sent to 1236 nursing personnel working at a university hospital and 1081 (87·5%) responses received. The questions concerned the following: (1) respondent demographical characteristics, (2) living background, (3) wishes for working environments and (4) motivation to work and health condition. The data were analysed by simple and cross-tabulations.
Results. The results can be summarised as follows: (1) the concept and significance of WLB has not yet been established among nurses in Japan, (2) three factors were found, which nurses need as working environment, 1st quality-of-life benefits, 2nd flexible working style, 3rd lifelong learning and (3) nurses who reported good WLB also reported higher job satisfaction and job motivation.
Conclusion. The concept and significance of WLB has not yet been established among nurses. Thus, it is needed to enlighten nurses on the concept and significance of WLB as well as how they should practise WLB. Approximately half of the nurses gave their jobs first priority in reality, although they had various needs for their private lives and household affairs, as well as jobs. WLB cannot be achieved only by individual attitudes; thus, organisational efforts are necessary. In the correlation between WLB and ‘job satisfaction’ and ‘job motivation,’ nurses who were satisfied with their job and those who were highly motivated showed higher WLB. There was a significant correlation between satisfaction and motivation.
Relevance to clinical practice. It is necessary that nurses understand and have any information about working policy to improve working conditions to get better conditions which they need.
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