scholarly journals Work–Life Balance Among Humanitarian Aid Workers

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1191-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda Visser ◽  
Melinda Mills ◽  
Liesbet Heyse ◽  
Rafael Wittek ◽  
Vincenzo Bollettino
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Life Domain ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Trust In Management ◽  
Humanitarian Work

A limited body of research has examined satisfaction with work–life balance of expatriate workers who live abroad, residing outside the typical “family” or “life” domain. This study aims to demonstrate how and under which organizational circumstances job autonomy can increase work–life balance satisfaction of humanitarian aid expatriates. We hypothesize that especially in humanitarian work, trust in management can buffer potential negative effects of high autonomy. We test our hypothesis by means of ordinal logistic regression, using survey data collected among expatriates of the Operational Center Amsterdam of Médecins Sans Frontières ( N = 142). Results reveal that high levels of autonomy are positively related with work–life balance satisfaction when trust in the management of the organization is high. When trust in management is low, the effect of high autonomy on work–life balance satisfaction is negative. This implies that trust in management indeed buffers negative effects of high autonomy among expatriate humanitarian aid workers.

scholarly journals Vicissitudes of laughter

Pragmatics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-300
Author(s):  
Kevin McKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽  
Humanitarian Work ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper is concerned with the way that laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation in talk among humanitarian aid workers as they describe their professional activities in settings of armed conflict. I first set out to situate my analysis within the tradition of work in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EM), exploring how that approach differs in significant ways from work in pragmatics and related traditions of discourse analytic research. Unlike the latter approaches, EM examines laughter for the intelligibility it is deployed by speakers to furnish, so that the presumption of laughter’s revelatory nature which characterizes a pragmatically-oriented analysis is seen as a participant resource for rendering the situated significance of actions visible by and for the involved parties of a given episode of interaction. Following this, I examine talk from open-ended interviews with aid agency operatives who work in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, exploring how laughter is employed to manage threats to interlocutor affiliation where the potential accusation of opportunism arises in accounts of personal job satisfaction as against the legitimacy otherwise afforded with an appeal to altruism and self-sacrifice. Where speakers attend to the criticism of humanitarian activity for its significance in affecting outcomes of warfare, the management of these different demands is accomplished in reflexive work to ironize their own and others’ formulations of motivation for pursuing humanitarian work.

scholarly journals Marital Status & Work-Life Balance: A Case Study of Commercial Pilots of Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariyam Malik ◽  
S. Khurram Khan Alwi ◽  
Musarrat Shamshir
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Job Insecurity ◽  
Life Domain ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work And Life

The aim of this research is to examine whether the states of work-life balance differ according to the different marital statuses of commercial pilots in Pakistan. The increasing intensities resulting from globalization have led to pressure on organizations, and in times such as the present when job insecurity and downsizing are a norm, employees tend to invest more effort and time into their professions to provide them with greater security. As a result, employees often neglect the other and equally important domain, the life domain. The variables that were used for the research study are marital status and work-life balance. This quantitative study concluded that commercial pilots, regardless of their marital statuses, undergo massive imbalances in their work and life domains. The study also provides recommendations for improving levels of work-life balance.

scholarly journals Employees’ Work-Life Balance Reviewed From Work From Home Aspect During COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Amanda Putri ◽  
Ali Amran
Keyword(s):  
Sudden Change ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
Operational Activity

The COVID-19 pandemic suddenly made the company inevitably has to run its operational activities in a way of work from home. The sudden change in the operational activity system can have an impact on the work-life balance of employees. In this study, the researchers wanted to know the work-life balance of the employees during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of work from home. The research method used is a survey method with descriptive verification research type. The data used are primary data obtained from distributing the questionnaire. The results showed that work from home respectively has a positive and significant effect on the work-life balance on the employees. There are dimensions and indicators that are the highest and lowest in constructing each variable and the results of this study are expected to be used by the company to minimize and anticipate the occurrence of negative effects on work-life balance in terms of the aspects of work from home.

scholarly journals Work–Life Balance Measures of Working Carers and Well-Being Satisfaction within Couple Relationships: The Result of an Italian Policy Looking through the Gender Lens

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Elena Macchioni ◽  
Riccardo Prandini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Family

Working carers deserve to receive more and more attention from welfare regimes and workplaces. Using the work–family interface approach, we analyzed the effects of the Family Audit workplace measures—an Italian work–life balance policy—on couple well-being. The research was carried out through a Computer-Assisted Web Interviewing survey which was addressed to the employees of the organizations that participated in the policy program in 2015. The results showed that the measures implemented by the companies were able to improve the perception of couple well-being of working carers, but they did not trigger a cultural change that would permit the elimination of differences due to gender in work–family balance. The most effective measures were characterized by high levels of flexibility. These features allow the reduction of the negative effects produced by some socio-biographic variables, some work-related aspects, and aspects related to the Mediterranean welfare regime.

scholarly journals Demystifying the life domain in work-life balance: A Malaysian perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharmila Jayasingam ◽  
Su Teng Lee ◽  
Khairuddin Naim Mohd Zain
Keyword(s):  
Life Domain ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance

scholarly journals Superwomen: The Work Life Imbalance

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Church
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Interesting Phenomenon ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Great Support ◽  
The Impact

Much has been written lately about work life balance. A brief literature review revealed that current work life balance literature focused on the negative effects of imbalance and strategies to overcome it. However, there was a silence in the literature about the impact of imbalance on women's families. Thus, the purpose of this research was to seek the views of three 'high powered' women in paid employment about the effects of their work life imbalance on their families. The research approach was qualitative and three women in long term heterosexual partnerships with children at home and employed as managers in tourism in Rotorua, were interviewed. The data analysis revealed two strong themes: "The negative effects are there but, I am in control and I have great support" and "The lifestyle is worth it." These selected findings are consistent with the literature in that the negative effects are evident in both my findings and in the literature. However, my findings add to the literature because, although the negative effects were identified by the respondents, they do not seem to be a problem. The literature does not acknowledge or discuss this interesting phenomenon. After suggestions for further research, the paper concludes that these women can offer us interesting insights into the work life balance discussion and the milieu within which they make those decisions.

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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