Beyond Work and Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Grisslich ◽  
Antje Proske ◽  
Hermann Körndle
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Balance Model ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Social Time

Research concerning Work-Life balance has focused primarily on a division between time devoted to work and social life; but in addition, individuals require time for themselves–they desire “me time.” This study investigates the role of me time when considering more than two dimensions for the Work-Life balance model. By combining theoretical considerations regarding me time with an existing four-dimensional life-balance approach, the existence of a three-dimensional life-balance concept with factors for work time, social time, and me time was tested and confirmed. Secondly, the predictive effects of the life-balance concept on health were studied. The results showed that the three-dimensional life-balance model predicts more variance in health than does the two-dimensional approach that includes only the factors work and social time. Individuals who scored high on a self-reported life-balance scale also scored higher on self-reported health measures. Finally, the relationship between life balance and personal resources was investigated. Core self-evaluations and self-regulation revealed predictive effects on life balance. In line with theoretical expectations, individuals skilled in personal resources reported higher levels for life balance.

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

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saloni Pahuja
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Impact

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.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Intensity of Telework Use on Employees’ Work-Life Balance

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Neringa Grincevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Intellectual Activities

The intensive penetration of information and communication technologies into the labour market has also determined the modernisation of work organization processes. The digitization of information and telecommunications enabled to perform most of intellectual activities not only in the work premises but also in other spaces distant from the main workplace. Thus, as the technology revolution gradually releases modern intellectual work from the constraints of the physical location, telework is becoming an increasingly accelerating trend in the world. Together with technological changes allowing to reach the employee 24 hours a day and 7 days a week create challenges for teleworkers seeking to successfully reconcile two areas of life – work and personal life. Employees from different fields, among them accounting, audit, finances, analysis and others that carry out tasks via telework face this challenge.Relevance of the scientific research problem formulated in this paper was determined by the lack of studies in the scientific research to date, which would evaluate the intensity of telework use as an important factor that has a different effect on work-life balance.The research aim is to reveal the effect of the intensity of telework use on employee work-life balance. A quantitative study – the survey of telework employees was conducted and 320 respondents were surveyed. The results of the empirical study revealed that the intensity of telework use had equally positive effect only on two dimensions of work-life balance: time intended for the family and friends and time intended for oneself.

scholarly journals Boundary Management Preferences, Boundary Control, and Work-Life Balance among Full-Time Employed Professionals in Knowledge-Intensive, Flexible Work

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christin Mellner ◽  
Gunnar Aronsson ◽  
Göran Kecklund
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Control ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Boundary Management ◽  
Flexible Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Knowledge Intensive ◽  
Management Preferences

Profound changes are taking place within working life, where established boundaries between work and personal life are challenged by increased global competition, ever-faster changing markets, and rapid development of boundary transcending information and communication technologies (ICT). The aim of this study was to investigate boundary management preferences in terms of keeping work and personal life domains separated or integrated, that is, segmenting or blending of domains, the perception of being in control of one´s preferred boundaries, and work-life balance among employees at a Swedish telecom company (N = 1,238, response rate 65%, men 73%, mean age 42 years). Psychosocial work factors, individual characteristics, sociodemographic factors, and work-life balance were investigated in relation to boundary management preferences and perceived boundary control. For high boundary control among segmenters, nearly all the studied psychosocial work factors were significant. Among integrators, this was the case only for clear expectations in work. For both groups, the individual capacity for self-regulation was associated with high boundary control. Regarding sociodemographic factors, cohabiting women with children who preferred segmentation had low boundary control. Finally, there was a main effect of boundary control on work-life balance. In particular, male segmenters perceiving high boundary control had better work-life balance than all others. Conclusions of the study are that segmenters need external boundaries in work for succesful boundary management. Moreover, self-regulation seems a crucial boundary competence in knowledge- intensive, flexible work. Results are of value for health promotion in modern work organizations in supporting employees achieving successful boundary control and subsequent work-life balance.

Innovative tools and techniques to manage your stress to ensure work-life balance

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 320-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.S. Rao
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Computer Vision Syndrome ◽  
The Social ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline various aspects of stress including its causes, effects and remedies to ensure work-life balance to achieve organizational excellence and effectiveness. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains types of stress and differentiates between stress and burnout. It outlines innovative tools and techniques to manage stress. Findings – It enlightens that there are three symptoms to good health – sound sleep, exercise and good appetite. As long as you enjoy these you enjoy good health and you can keep stress at a bay and lead a happy and great life. Practical implications – The tools and techniques to ensure work-life balance can be applied in any industry and in any size of organization. Social implications – The social implications of this research suggests that leaders can provide meaning to their lives by balancing their personal, professional and social life. Originality/value – It elaborates stress management from the perspective of parallel careers with Peter Drucker’s example. It adds value to tackle computer vision syndrome.

Managing Work-Life Balance: A Study of Married Female Employees in Management & Engineering Colleges in a Selected Area

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Srivastava ◽  
Varsha Singh
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
At Home

Today’s working women are continually being challenged by the demands of full-time work and when the day is done at the office, they carry more of the commitments and responsibilities at home. With growing number of employment among females, it is becoming difficult to separate work from their lives or we can say that work has actually became their life. Since, academic jobs are growing larger and becoming oversized, so it requires more dedication and effort from faculties. In reality, academia now means that colleges/institutions want faculties to teach more courses than ever before while maintaining active research programs, obtaining significant grants and other activities that include finding, mentoring and advising students. So, these jobs today, have three dimensional demands i.e. research, teaching and services. Regardless of whether the women is in a job, they tend to bear a greater proportion of domestic responsibilities as compared to men which she tries to balance with various conflicting roles like professional, mother, wife, daughter-in-law etc. When domestic work gets coupled with a busy professional life, the workload becomes burdensome. This significantly increases pressure in office as well as in the family. For the purpose of study data was collected from female faculties of various management and engineering colleges in Lucknow city with the help of structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed with the help of percentage & frequency table analysis and hypotheses were proved with the help of chi-square and one-way ANOVA test. Present study aims to analyze the relationship between socio-economic variables and work-life balance. The results revealed that there is no significant difference between the designation of female employees and their attitude towards conflicting demands at home and work. The study also shows that without proper support from spouse and family, it is difficult to balance work and life effectively.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Higher Education: The Relationship between Work-Life Balance and XR E-Learning Facilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rocsana Bucea-Manea-Țoniş ◽  
Radu Bucea-Manea-Țoniş ◽  
Violeta Elena Simion ◽  
Dragan Ilic ◽  
Cezar Braicu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, collaborative learning is proving to offer solutions to new inclusivity research challenges, and most importantly, can help ensure sustainable education. Collaborative learning can strengthen positive attitudes towards learning, improve performance in academic results, and enhance self-esteem, by promoting interaction and mutual support among young people. Extended reality (XR), associated with collaborative learning, offers a further advantage by facilitating deep comprehensive learning. An online survey was conducted to investigate respondents’ views on the impact and influence of virtual technologies on work, study, and social life. Respondents (n = 1032) were recruited from Serbia, Romania, and Hungary, from five public and private universities. The study reveals students’ perceptions of e-learning and XR immersion. The data were analyzed by using a combination of descriptive techniques from PSPP (GNU open source SPSS—Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Free Software Foundation, Boston, MA, USA), and by designing a regression model to evaluate the work-life balance. This regression model shows that the work-life balance is positively influenced by the inclusion of XR facilities in the e-learning process, along with an increased level of culture and living standard. The higher living standard of a student is associated with higher digital competence and more financial resources available to invest in technology.

scholarly journals Impact of Work Life Balance on the Social Life of Workers Living in Lagos Metropolitan Borders

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyedele O. Ola ◽  
Willoughby O. John ◽  
Olaniyi A. Simeon ◽  
Oyero A. Mutiu
Keyword(s):  
Job Stress ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Work Life Conflict

The need to maintain proper work life balance is becoming increasingly important; it has motivated several academic research efforts. In the quest for Lagos transformation from a mega city to a smart city, work life balance issues as it has to do with housing, work and urban liveability remains a contemporary issue that calls for keen attention. The rate of population increase in Lagos is not commensurate with the availability and development of social infrastructure, which has caused a number of the workers gainfully employed in Lagos to seek such in nearby state - Ogun State, specifically border towns which includes Ota, Ifo, Mowe, Magboro, Ibafo, Agbara etc. Consequently, such employees face job stress and work-life conflict caused by long working hours, unrelenting traffic, early resumption and late closure at work. This research examined the plausible consequence of work life imbalance measured by job stress and work-life conflict on the social life measured by job satisfaction and wellbeing of such people. A sample of 242 respondents was selected for survey using Yaro Yamane random sampling method & Rao Soft sample estimation method. Primary method of data collection was used. A well-structured questionnaire was administered and interviews were conducted while responses were analysed using product moment correlation and linear regression. Results proved that work life balance has profound impacts on the social life of workers in Lagos Metropolitan borders. This paper recommends that individuals should take active roles in ensuring work life balance; organisations must proactively identify and understand demographic & work related factors; create supportive workplace policies; adopt & implement flexible work strategies and assume the responsibility of reducing/eliminating job stress. In addition, Government should intervene and initiate measures to tackle transportation inadequacies with legislations on provision of work life balance incentives for workers.

scholarly journals Work-Life Balance among Nurses working in Tertiary Level Hospital

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Anita Kandel ◽  
Bima Thapa Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Level Hospital

Introduction: Work-Life Balance (WLB) is defined as a degree to which a person is engaged in and satisfied with their work, family and social life. The objective of this study was to assess the level of WLB among nurses working in tertiary level hospital and to measure the association between independent variables and level of WLB. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 95 nurses working in different wards of tertiary level hospital by using non-probability purposive sample method during the month of March 2020 for two weeks. Self-developed, semi structured pretested questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: The respondents who had achieved a moderate level of WLB balance was 86.3%, whereas 3.2 % have managed to maintain balance and the remaining 10.5% have reported an imbalanced state of WLB. There was a significant relationship between the type of family (p=0.03), work experience (p=0.04) and the number of earning members in the family (p=0.047) with the level of WLB respectively.   Conclusions: The study concludes that nurses are able to maintain a moderately balanced state of work-life.

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