Ladies Entrepreneurship in India: A Gendered View on Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
Ramadevi Chandra ◽  
Bramhani
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Related Condition ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Business Experience

This assessment approaches business experience through a gendered explanation behind affiliation and gets some information about ladies business try in India with an emphasis on their character, factors prompting beginning interest, annoys and extremely unfazed orchestrates. A topical assessment was performed on the information accumulated through semi-made gatherings from 20 ladies agents. The outcomes showed that all around present character properties among Indian ladies agents were – solid confirmation, innovative, objective facilitated and invigorating air. The segments goading ladies business visionaries were – principal for accomplishment, social commitment, cash related self-sufficiency and improved work-life balance. The two greatest inconveniences tried were – nonattendance of embellishments' trust and getting budgetary assets. Ladies business visionaries looked for help with focuses identified with both assorted leveled and family the heads. The evaluation is exploratory in nature, everything considered has obliged generalizability. The assessment may fill in as a dedication for policymakers, supporting work environments, business affiliations, and so forth to make an astounding cash related condition that supports ladies overseers in India and stimulate enduring activity of their affiliations.  

scholarly journals Work–Life Balance, Organizations and Social Sustainability: Analyzing Female Telework in Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gálvez ◽  
Francisco Tirado ◽  
M. Jesús Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Family Responsibilities ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Global Institutions

The concept of work–life balance has recently established itself as a key component on route maps drawn up in the pursuit of social sustainability, both on a local scale, represented by individual organizations, and on a more general one, represented by global institutions such as the United Nations. Our article analyzes telework’s use as a political tool within organizations that either boost or hinder the development of social sustainability. Additionally, we propose the notion of “life sustainability” to analyze how female teleworkers describe the link between specific work cultures and the possibility of fulfilling social sustainability goals in local work environments through the achievement of a good work–life balance. Our research was performed following a qualitative approach, drawing from a sample of 24 individual interviews and 10 focus groups with a total of 48 participants, all of which are female teleworkers with family responsibilities. Our main findings allow us to summarize the interviewees’ social perceptions into two categories, which we have dubbed ‘life sustainability ecologies’ and ‘presence-based ecologies’. We conclude by discussing female teleworkers’ claim that work–life balance is directly linked to social sustainability and that the latter goal will remain out of reach as long as the issue of balance goes unresolved.

scholarly journals Arbejdsmiljø og karriere - to ph.d.-udfordringer

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 6-16
Author(s):  
Trine Bovbjerg ◽  
Monika Janfelt ◽  
Hanne Dauer Keller
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
Areas Of Concern

Artiklen afrapporterer de erkendelser omkring ph.d.-studerendes arbejdsmiljø og karriereudvikling, som vi har opnået i gennemførelsen af et udviklingsforløb for ph.d.-studerende på fire af landets universiteter i 2012-2013. De ph.d.-studerendes arbejdsmiljø er ikke særligt velbelyst, og igennem en analyse af deltagernes udviklingsplaner og evalueringer af forløbet vil vi pege på 4 karakteristikker ved arbejdsmiljøet: Work-life-balance, dobbelt identiet som både studerende og medarbejder, forventninger og krydspres samt usikre karriereveje. De ph.d.-studerende trives pga. engagementet i deres faglige forskningsprojekt, mens deres udfordringer med arbejds­miljøet primært bunder i kollegiale, ledelsesmæssige og organisatoriske forhold. For at få inspiration til forbedringer af de ph.d.-studerendes arbejdsmiljø foreslås det at anlægge et situeret læringsperspektiv på ph.d.-uddannelsen. Et situeret perspektiv inddrager dele af arbejdsmiljøet som væsentlig faktor for faglig udvikling.    Findings are reported for a development program for PhD students that took place in 2012/2013 at four Danish universities. The focus of the program was doctoral students’ work and career development. To date PhD students’ work environments have not been documented in detail, however, analysis of data collected during the program revealed four areas of concern to doctoral students: Challenges relating to work-life balance, uncertainty over identity relating to status as student and employee, risks associated with the work and uncertainty over career paths. The problems are primarily rooted in collegiate, managerial and organizational issues. In order to identify areas for improvement in the PhD students’ learning process, it is proposed that a situated learning perspective on the PhD programme be adopted.

Work Life Balance Issues

2013 ◽  
pp. 167-191 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
Women In The Workplace ◽  
Working Lives

This chapter aims to: provide an overview of the issue of work life balance through a look at the masculine work practices of the long hour’s culture, inflexibility work environments, and presenteeism as a cultural norm; demonstrate how work and career development is structured around men and men’s lives without taking into account how work practices impact individuals (predominantly women) with caring responsibilities such as childcare or looking after elderly parents/relatives; it explores how parenthood in particular impacts the careers and career development of women, especially those in male dominated occupations; and discusses the research on women who do not have children. Women who do not have children are often overlooked when looking at women in the workplace. The decision whether or not to have children due to career aspirations is much more of an issue for women than men as having children is more likely to impact on the working lives of women. The chapter also shows how ‘choice’ between career and parenthood perpetuates gendered occupational segregation and certain occupations and industries are less sympathetic to the needs of working mothers.

Does working from home work? Experience of working from home and the value of hybrid workplace post-COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunhwa Yang ◽  
Yujin Kim ◽  
Sungil Hong
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Spatial Efficiency ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Corporate Offices

Purpose This study aims to understand how knowledge workers working from home during COVID-19 changed their views on physical work environments and working-from-home practices. Design/methodology/approach This study conducted a survey targeting workers in the USA recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. A total of 1,651 responses were collected and 648 responses were used for the analysis. Findings The perceived work-life balance improved during the pandemic compared to before, while the balance of physical boundaries between the workplace and home decreased. Workplace flexibility, environmental conditions of home offices and organizational supports are positively associated with productivity, satisfaction with working from home and work-life balance during the pandemic. Research limitations/implications While the strict traditional view of “showing” up in the office from Monday through Friday is likely on the decline, the hybrid workplace with flexibility can be introduced as some activities are not significantly affected by the work location, either at home-based or corporate offices. The results of this study also highlight the importance of organizations to support productivity and satisfaction in the corporate office as well as home. With the industry collaboration, future research of relatively large sample sizes and study sites, investigating workers’ needs and adapted patterns of use in home-based and corporate offices, will help corporate real estate managers make decisions and provide some level of standardization of spatial efficiency and configurations of corporate offices as well as essential supports for home offices. Originality/value The pandemic-enforced working-from-home practices awaken the interdependence between corporate and home environments, how works are done and consequently, the role of the physical workplace. This study built a more in-depth understanding of how workers who were able to continue working from home during COVID-19 changed or not changed their views on physical work environments and working-from-home practices.

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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