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 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 The Roles of Job Autonomy and Self-Efficacy to Improve Academics’ Work-life Balance

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Khadijah Zainal Badri ◽  
Siti Aisyah Panatik
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Job Autonomy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Family Enrichment

Discussion on workers’ work-life balance has been ongoing since the 1980s. However, less is known about work-life balance amongst university academics especially on the role of job autonomy and self-efficacy in influencing it. The current paper investigates the influence of job autonomy towards academics’ work-life balance. Also, it examines the role of self-efficacy as a moderator in between this relationship. This study employed a quantitative method using the cross-sectional design using data on 307 responses to test these propositions. Using AMOS 23 and SPSS23, we established evidences on the positive influence of job autonomy towards academics’ work-life balance. That is, high job autonomy linked to higher work-to-family enrichment and lesser work-to-family conflict occurrences. Besides, work-to-family enrichment was found higher when self-efficacy level was high, confirming the moderating role of self-efficacy. This study contributes to a greater understanding on the influence of both job autonomy and self-efficacy towards academics’ work-life balance in terms of enrichment and conflict occurrences. It also affirms the constructive effects of self-efficacy to enhance the relationship between job autonomy and work-to-family enrichment. Findings from this study may be used to assist various human resource practitioners, researchers, and higher education institutions to build relevant policies to further support sustainable work-life balance practices within educational institutions.

scholarly journals The generation game

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Gen Y

Purpose – Explores the limited value of concepts such as Baby-Boomer, Generation X (Gen X) and Generation Y (Gen Y) and advances the view that life course is more valuable. Design/methodology/approach – Examines how young adults in Britain, born between 1975 and 1982, conceptualized the notion of work-life balance as they were about to leave university and enter full-time paid employment. Findings – Reveals that the notion of individual choice strongly underpins young adults’ conceptualization of work-life balance and expectations of work-life balance support; while young British and Asian adults largely considered it to be a matter of individual choice, there were variations in their preferences for how to prioritize their impending employment and personal lives; and four emerging patterns of work-life balance orientation preferences were found – balancer, careerist, career-sacrificer and integrator. Practical implications – Provides support for the argument that the work-life balance perceptions of young adults who would belong to the so-called Gen Y cannot be generalized and simplified as being either work-centric or life-centric. The picture is a lot more complex given the diversity within this group of young adults. Social implications – Highlights how, instead of looking for generational differences (or age-related differences) which can be divisive, it is more useful to look at the issue of multi-generations in a broader way. Originality/value – By using a life-course approach instead of a generational approach, is able to take into account how past transitions have shaped the way work-life balance was discussed by the young adults and how anticipated future transitions were expected by the young adults to change their needs and therefore expectations of employer and government support.

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 Pengaruh work-life balance, Lingkungan Kerja dan Kompensasi terhadap Kinerja karyawan PT Gunanusa Eramandiri

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 985-993
Author(s):  
Inna Nisawati Mardiani ◽  
Alfin Widiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Employee Performance ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Regression Equations ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Production Section ◽  
Saturated Sample ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Collection Methods

This study aims to determine the effect of work-life balance, job satisfaction and compensation on employee performance at PT Gunanusa Eramandiri. The population in this study were all employees of the production section, amounting to 57 employees, using saturated sample techniques. By using data collection methods through questionnaires and secondary data, namely data obtained from companies, data obtained from research is analyzed with quantitative analysis methods, namely multiple regression equations. The results showed that work-life balance has an effect on employee performance. Work environment has an effect on employee performance. Compensation affects employee performance. Furthermore, companies need to increase the share of time, improve environmental conditions and increase benefits, all of which are done to improve employee performance.

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