In the liberal welfare states, for example, work life balance has to be examined in the context of. The results show that high working hours and overtime in general do not lead to. Additional manual searches were also conducted on the websites of the. Worklife balance, wlb, wlb theories, concepts in wlb. Gurney, sarah 2010 gender, worklife balance and health. Work family balance is merely one of the many aspects of having what we call a worklife balance. The study started by looking at various events or issues that affects the performance of employee most especially in zenith bank nigeria. So in our assigned readings this week, we learned about both the contingency theory and pathgoal theory. This article explains how it works and how you can use it. Keywords work life conflict, employee performance, gender, marital status, age group. According to donald super, its vital that there is a good balance between work and private life. The sections are work, finances, spiritual, hobbies, self, social, family and health.
Its different from the old idea of seeking a balance, which tends to treat work and life as two conflicting opposites one all hard grind, the other all pleasure because practitioners of the merge tend to be driven people who love their jobs. Worklife balance is when you can objectively say that you were able to achieve and enjoy something with your family and friends. The effects of job satisfaction and worklife balance on. Karthikeyan 2 abstract in organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work life balance is rising to the top of many employers. The origin of the formula worklife balance wlb can be seen in at least three social. Clarke, et al 2004, 121 to understand work life balance, it. Challenges of worklife balance faced by working families. Trying to schedule an equal number of hours for each. According to the rk selection theory, rselected animals have high multitudes of offspring and allow them to fend for themselves, but kselected species have fewer offspring and play a bigger role in helping offspring thrive.
Byrne 2005 presented the ageold concept of balanced wheel of life and related worklife balance with it. With the millennial generation of workers projected to take up 75% of the workforce by 2025, many leaders think its time to redefine what work life balance looks like. Or if one has a wonderful family life, shehe is able to bring these positive emotions to work. Facilitation theory this is in fact an offshoot of enrichment theory. Work life balance catchword or catalyst for sustainable. Work life balance elephant theory, logic based discussion. The terms in which the work life balance agenda is cast at a national level through government policy and discourse, are shaped by welfare state regimes espingandersen, 1990, 1999. Like other gen y kids, i dont necessarily prioritize life over work, or work over life. Womens work life balance is important, especially for working moms. So, since the options for companies offering resultsonly work environments rowe are limited, ill work now and have balance later. It starts by exploring why worklife balance has become an important topic for research and policy in some countries and after outlining traditional perspectives examines the concept of balance and its implications for the study of the relation between work and the rest of life. They want to customise the conventional corporate day to suit them. How do we give our career the dedication it deserves, and still spend quality time with out kids. These changes affect the demands that people place themselves and their work.
Flexible working, worklife balance, and gender equality. The nature of the challengeor the spillovers theory can be viewed in two ways. The following are working definitions of terms used. Every person plays different roles and also goes through various stages of life. Byrne 2005 suggested eight important sections of life as the eight spokes in a wheel. One way of thinking about work life balance is with a concept known as the four burners theory. This study focused on work life balance and employee performance in the nigerian banking industry. Pdf last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the research pertaining to. Pdf work life balance and employee productivity ahmed. This report updates that report with insights from the most recent research on the economics of flexible workplace policies and practices. These include womens participation in paid work and capacity to combine paid. While the right arrangement is different for every mother. I would frame the challenge as an internal one based on, and consistent with, welfare economics. The intersection of work and life research is fundamentally challenged by a lack of commonly established basic language and key constructs.
When you were able to achieve something at work, doing a job that you enjoy doing. The accounts of work life balance given by these participants differed from those reported. Several theories can explain why such expansion occur see for more detailed theories, kelliher and anderson 2010. This theory focuses on identifying the factors that create work and family conflict, and tries to find ways to manage these two spheres and the border between them, in order to reach a balance between work related roles and family related roles clark, 2000. Ranjit goswami2 1assistant professor tims, adipur kahchh 2dean imt nagpur, nagpur. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a weak correlation between work life conflict and employee performance. A report on the importance of worklife balance 21663 was despite working for the company for four years, giving it six months notice of the trip and having three weeks holiday owing. You probably wear 20% of your wardrobe 80% of the time.
Pdf worklife balance and working from home researchgate. In the study by johnsons 1995 todays employees are becoming increasingly concerned with balancing their work and family life and. Investigating the relationship between worklifebalance. Model of work life balance explaining relationship constructs prof.
Work life balance elephant theory farnaz hedayati march 31, 2014. Worklife balance and family friendly policies melbourne institute. Work life balance is an important topic in both professional business practice and academic research. Developing work life policies that are right for business as an employer, work life balance can be used in four different ways as a strategy for the organization. When you were able to achieve and enjoy something for yourself. Is there a relationship between work life balance and employees motivation in the. This is to ensure effective solutions that can be implemented efficiently. The council of economic advisers first published work life balance and the economics of workplace flexibility in march 2010. The right work life balance is even variable for a given person, changing depending on things like the age of ones children or parents, or a new health problem.
The academic body of knowledge regarding work life scholarship relies. Technology is making it easier to juggle work and home and its blurring the gap between our public and private lives. Work life balance and the management of social work environment. Volume 3, issue 2, february 2014 issn 2319 4847 model of. These are crucial questions we want to help you answer. The literature shows that work life balance is a central issue affecting wellbeing, as family and work are the most important elements of everyones life.
How, and to what extent do fulltime doctoral students strive to obtain a school work life balance. Work life balance the employers perspective 5 at each point in time. Also, there is a significant impact of marital status and age group on work life conflict, however, gender seems to be insignificant. Last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the research pertaining to work life balance wlb. Perspectives on the study of worklife balance david e. The worklife balance myth explained by the four burners theory. Impact of working hours on worklife balance sarah holly, alwine mohnen abstract to examine the influence of working hours on employees satisfaction, this article uses a large, representative set of panel data from german households gsoep.
There are many aspects of ones personal life that can intersect with work including family, leisure, and health. In understanding how mindfulness helps with work life balance, it helps to know a just a little about boundary theory, which organizational psychologists use to study the balance between our working roles and the demands of our personal lives. As a term in its own right work life balance is rarely defined for reasons that will become clearer as the discussion progresses. This full text version, available on teesrep, is the pdf final version of. The 8020 ratio applies to both your work day and your life outside work. Work life interface is the intersection of work and personal life. According to the theory, people are daily bordercrossers between the domains of work. Many authors attempt to define work life balance policy or work life balance arrangements. The four burners theory presents an alternative solution to work life balance. You feel like you are caught in the middle and have to choose between two. Overview of work life balance discourse and its relevance in current economic scenario.
You probably make most of your phone calls to, or spend most of your time with, a limited amount of the people you have numbers for and know. The role of worklife balance practices in order to. Take a few seconds to imagine a cooking stove with four flames or burners on it. It means different things to different groups, and the meaning often depends on the context of the conversation and the speakers viewpoint. The role theory has been considered as the most common perspective for explaining the nature of work family relationship which. According to a 2017 gallup poll on the state of the american workplace, approximately 53 percent of employees stated that a job role that allows them to have better work life balance and personal wellbeing is very important to them. There are only so many hours in the day, after all. Welcome to the world of the work life merge, the term recently coined by facebook executive emily white to describe a life in which work. Your two best friends, jenny and gina, are fighting. Towards an integrated conceptual framework abstract the main aim of the current paper is to explore how personal and environmental characteristics might.
According to stimpson and filer 2011, work life balance is a topic discussed more frequently in the literature concerning faculty than graduate students in higher education p. All these theories provide insights into the relationship between work and family domains. Imagine that your life is represented by a stove with four burners on it. This article introduces workfamily border theory a new theory about work family balance. Overview of worklife balance discourse and its relevance. Work life balance and employee performance work life balance has always been a concern of those interested in the quality of working life and its relation to broader quality of life guest, 2002. Worklifebalance named two key everyday concepts that will help us come up with a positive and clearer definition of worklife balance. Even though a number of studies are available at the global level, the exact theoretical framework is either overlapping or missing in many of them. The extent to which individuals participation in one life domain e. It is an issue that is important both to the organizations and to employees. Worklife balance versus worklife merge dbs esource dublin.
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