scholarly journals French Fathers in Work Organizations: Navigating Work-Life Balance Challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 213-229
Author(s):  
Sabrina Tanquerel
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Organizations ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Successful Career ◽  
Cultural Ideals ◽  
Perceptions And Expectations ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Working Fathers

AbstractThis chapter aims at contributing to a better understanding of the challenges and tensions that French working fathers experience at work in trying to achieve work-life balance. Drawing on a sample of 20 fathers, aged 27–51, working in different work organizations, in-depth interviews were conducted to investigate how these fathers navigate tensions between the simultaneous pressure for having a successful career and for embodying an involved fatherhood. The findings show that the fathers’ perceptions and expectations towards work-life balance are different from women, fathers often associating their needs for work-life balance with occasional and informal flexibility and not always viewing the organization as a source of solutions. Heterogeneously influenced by their cultural ideals of work and fatherhood, they expect now more proactivity, recognition and support on the part of their organization and supervisor to fully carry out their fatherhood. A typology of three profiles with different ways of combining fatherhood and work is derived: the ‘breadwinner’ father, the ‘caring father’ and the ‘want to have it all’ father. These categories are further developed highlighting the practices and strategies French fathers mobilize to solve their work-life equation.

scholarly journals Factors Associated With Work-Life Balance of Working Fathers Involved in Small Business Enterprises: Evidence from Kathmandu Valley

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-203
Author(s):  
Rocky Mani Shakya ◽  
Niranjan Devkota ◽  
Udaya Raj Paudel ◽  
Seeprata Parajuli
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Inferential Analysis ◽  
Business Enterprises ◽  
Working Fathers

 Background: Work-life balance (WLB) can be considered as the systematic management of three important components like work-life conflict, work-life interference and work-life convergence. Objective: This study tries to examine the work-life balance of the working fathers involved in small business enterprises in Kathmandu valley. Method: Both descriptive and inferential analysis is used in the study which showed various results. The study adopted the descriptive approach. Respondents were sampled from working fathers in small business enterprises in Kathmandu valley. Non probability sampling technique was used to select 405 respondents. The questionnaire was used for data collection. Descriptive as well as inferential statistics were used for data analysis. Result: The study found that age, education level, business trainings and income level has positive significant relationship with work-life balance. The finding of this study shows that satisfaction and motivation towards working fathers is important factors for balancing the work-life and family life.  Conclusion and Recommendation: The paper recommends that there should be inclusive climate in the workplace and policies supporting work-life balance should be forwarded.

scholarly journals Public sector austerity cuts in Britain and the changing discourse of work–life balance

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 586-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzan Lewis ◽  
Deirdre Anderson ◽  
Clare Lyonette ◽  
Nicola Payne ◽  
Stephen Wood
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Personal Responsibility ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Public Sector Organizations ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Financial Pressures

The relative importance of economic and other motives for employers to provide support for work–life balance (WLB) is debated within different literatures. However, discourses of WLB can be sensitive to changing economic contexts. This article draws on in-depth interviews with senior human resources professionals in British public sector organizations to examine shifting discourses of WLB in an austerity context. Three main discourses were identified: WLB practices as organizationally embedded amid financial pressures; WLB practices as a strategy for managing financial pressures; and WLB as a personal responsibility. Despite a discourse of mutual benefits to employee and employer underpinning all three discourses, there is a distinct shift towards greater emphasis on economic rather than institutional interests of employers during austerity, accompanied by discursive processes of fixing, stretching, shrinking and bending understandings of WLB. The reconstructed meaning of WLB raises concerns about its continued relevance to its original espoused purpose.

scholarly journals REALITIES OF WORK LIFE BALANCE IN NIGERIA: PERCEPTIONS OF ROLE CONFLICT AND COPING BELIEFS

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babatunde Akanji
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Role Conflicts ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Work Family ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Work Family Enrichment ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study is to explore the perceptions of Work-Life Balance (WLB) practices in a developing nation of Nigeria. Evidently, on the threshold of widened globalization propensities, work-life research is beginning to spread outside the western context. Thus, a qualitative approach was employed by conducting 61 in-depth interviews with Nigerian employees (41 women and 20 men) working in frontline employments in the banking, telecommunications and insurance sectors about their perceptions of WLB. The findings showed that though conflict situations existed more than work-family enrichment, but under different circumstances due to the long legacy of national challenges facing Nigeria. The apparent role conflicts have generated various coping strategies adapted by participants of study to moderate their perceived work-life conflict and this paper seeks to add to the compendium of WLB discourse on a global scale by examining key barriers detected to hinder its workable practices in Nigeria.

scholarly journals Effects of Multiple Job Holding on the Work-Life Balance

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne McClintock ◽  
Nick Taylor ◽  
Julie Warren
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Significant Feature ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Family Activities ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Depth Interviews

Multiple job holding is a significant feature of the contemporary New Zealand labour market, with at least one in ten people actively involved in the workforce holding more than one job at a time. Research into the effects of multiple job holding on the lives of workers in three sectors shows there can be considerable impact on their work-life balance. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with male and female health professional, farmers, and cafe or restaurant workers. The research shows that multiple job holding is comparatively well established in the agriculture and health sectors, with multiple job holders expecting to remain as such for the longer term. While multiple job holding may be equally established in the cafe and restaurant sector, the multiple jobs holders do not generally expect to remain so for long so the multiple job holding appears more transitional. Multiple job holders, who typically work long hours, are motivated by a range of factors, with economic reasons dominating. However, personal factors and pulling together a portfolio of work are also important. Overall, workers interviewed in the three sectors tend to hold their jobs because they want to rather than because they have to. Nevertheless, multiple job holding affects lives outside work, particularly family activities, participation in leisure and exercise, and community involvement. These effects on work-life balance vary by sector.

scholarly journals Choosing Computing: How and Why Women Enter Computing Through Coding Bootcamps

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Schnell
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Accelerated Programs ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Depth Interviews

Current shortcomings of the pipeline and life course model, as well as negative tech culture discourse, underestimate the potential and resilience of women in computing. Women may be pushed out of computing in their youth, but they can come back—and they do. Using data from in-depth interviews with women graduates of coding bootcamps (accelerated programs that teach beginners digital skills), this study provides empirical data on how and why women enter computing later in life, often after having non-technical degrees and careers. This study finds that to successfully enter the computing workforce, women must arrive at three end states, which are often achieved via three transitions: “I can’t code” to “I may code;” “I’m on another path” to “I want to code;” and “I can code” to “I do code.” In addition, this study finds surprising evidence of women choosing to enter computing for better pay and work-life balance, in contrast to research that suggests women leave for these reasons. Rather than add to the extensive literature on why women leave, this article highlights how and why women enter computing and overcome the odds stacked against them.

scholarly journals Failures of Flexibility: How Perceived Control Motivates the Individualization of Work–Life Conflict

ILR Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison T. Wynn ◽  
Aliya Hamid Rao
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Control ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Sense Of Control ◽  
Work Demands ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Consulting Industry ◽  
Depth Interviews

Firms have increasingly used flexibility policies to facilitate work–life balance, yet existing research shows that employees are stigmatized for using these seemingly beneficial policies. In this article, the authors identify perceived control, that is, the sense of control employees feel they have over managing their work–life conflicts, as a key factor in their avoidance of flexibility policies. Through 50 in-depth interviews with management consultants from five firms, the authors find that employees frame managing their work–life conflicts as a test of their professional skills, emphasize their “natural” suitability for the consulting industry, use choice rhetoric to reframe oppressive work demands as personal choices, and accentuate their ability to exit the consulting industry if they are unable to manage their work–life balance independently. Empirically, this study provides a fuller explanation for the pervasive avoidance of flexibility policies and expands on prior explanations that focus on flexibility stigma.

Entwicklung und Validierung der Trierer Kurzskala zur Messung von Work-Life Balance (TKS-WLB)

Diagnostica ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Syrek ◽  
Claudia Bauer-Emmel ◽  
Conny Antoni ◽  
Jens Klusemann
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Reliabilität Und Validität ◽  
Work Family

Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag wird die Trierer Kurzskala zur Messung von Work-Life Balance vorgestellt. Sie ermöglicht eine globale, richtungsfreie und in ihrem Aufwand ökonomische Möglichkeit zur Erfassung von Work-Life Balance. Die Struktur der Skala wurde anhand zweier Stichproben sowie einem zusätzlich erhobenen Fremdbild untersucht. Die Ergebnisse der Konstruktvalidierung bestätigten die einfaktorielle Struktur der Skala. Die interne Konsistenz der Skala erwies sich in beiden Studien als gut. Zudem konnte die empirische Trennbarkeit der Trierer Work-Life Balance Skala gegenüber einem gängigen Instrument zur Messung des Work-Family Conflicts ( Carlson, Kacmar & Williams, 2000 ) belegt werden. Im Hinblick auf die Kriteriumsvalidität der Skala wurden die angenommenen Zusammenhänge zu arbeits-, nicht-arbeits- sowie stressbezogenen Outcome-Variablen nachgewiesen. Die Eignung der Trierer Work-Life Balance Kurzskala zeigt sich auch daran, dass die Korrelationen zwischen den erhobenen Outcome-Variablen und dem Work-Family Conflict und denen der Trierer Work-Life Balance Skala ähnlich waren. Überdies vermochte die Trierer Work-Life Balance Skala über die Dimensionen des Work-Family Conflicts hinaus inkrementelle Varianz in den Outcome-Variablen aufzuklären. Insgesamt sprechen damit die Ergebnisse beider Stichproben für die Reliabilität und Validität der Trierer Work-Life Balance Kurzskala.

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