scholarly journals Job Quality and Work—Life Balance of Teleworkers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3239
Author(s):  
Paula Rodríguez-Modroño ◽  
Purificación López-Igual
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Home Based ◽  
European Working ◽  
Different Dimensions

As telework and mobile work arrangements become more widespread with new advancements in digitalization, these flexible models of work are rapidly expanding to new categories of employees and completely modifying working conditions and job quality. The aim of this study was to assess how particular types of telework affect different dimensions of job quality. We applied multivariable techniques to a sample of 35,765 workers from the Sixth European Working Conditions Survey. Our findings show that gender and types of telework by workplace and ICT-use intensity are crucial factors affecting working conditions and job quality. Occasional teleworkers are the group with the best job quality, while highly mobile teleworkers are those with the worst job quality and work–life balance. Home-based teleworkers, especially women, present better results than highly mobile workers in terms of working time quality and intensity, though in exchange for lower skills and discretion, income, and career prospects. This study contributes to deepening our knowledge on the impacts of flexible arrangements of work, providing an analysis of current data on different dimensions of job quality and work–life balance and including gender as a crucial axis of analysis.

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING THE WORK MOTIVATION OF LAWYERS AT LAW OFFICES IN QUANG NGAI PROVINCE, VIETNAM

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Le Hoang Nhu Nguyen ◽  
Nguyen Tran Huyen Tran
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Factors Affecting

This study is conducted to investigate which factors affect the work motivation of lawyers at law offices in Quang Ngai province. The results of data analysis from a survey of 298 lawyers show that the work motivation of lawyers is most affected by Income and Benefit policy, followed by Working conditions, Relationship with colleagues, Feeling the personal role in work, Work-life balance and finally Recognition of Achievement. <p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0779/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

scholarly journals Surgical leadership within rapidly changing working conditions in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schmitz-Rixen ◽  
Reinhart T. Grundmann
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Surgical Department ◽  
Chief Physician

AbstractIntroductionAn overview of the requirements for the head of a surgical department in Germany should be given.Materials and methodsA retrospective literature research on surgical professional policy publications of the last 10 years in Germany was conducted.ResultsSurveys show that commercial influences on medical decisions in German hospitals have today become an everyday, predominantly negative, actuality. Nevertheless, in one survey, 82.9% of surgical chief physicians reported being very satisfied with their profession, compared with 61.5% of senior physicians and only 43.4% of hospital specialists. Here, the chief physician is challenged. Only 70% of those surveyed stated that they could rely on their direct superiors when difficulties arose at work, and only 34.1% regarded feedback on the quality of their work as sufficient. The high distress rate in surgery (58.2% for all respondents) has led to a lack in desirability and is reflected in a shortage of qualified applicants for resident positions. In various position papers, surgical residents (only 35% describe their working conditions as good) demand improved working conditions. Chief physicians are being asked to facilitate a suitable work-life balance with regular working hours and a corporate culture with participative management and collegial cooperation. Appreciation of employee performance must also be expressed. An essential factor contributing to dissatisfaction is that residents fill a large part of their daily working hours with non-physician tasks. In surveys, 70% of respondents stated that they spend up to ≥3 h a day on documentation and secretarial work.DiscussionThe chief physician is expected to relieve his medical staff by employing non-physician assistants to take care of non-physician tasks. Transparent and clearly structured training to achieve specialist status is essential. It has been shown that a balanced work-life balance can be achieved for surgeons. Family and career can be reconciled in appropriately organized departments by making use of part-time and shift models that exclude 24-h shifts and making working hours more flexible.

Women and work‐life balance: is home‐based business ownership the solution?

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Walker ◽  
Calvin Wang ◽  
Janice Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Home Based

scholarly journals Conditions necessary to maintain work-life balance of employees - in the light of the research results

Management ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 326-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Stankiewicz ◽  
Hanna Bortnowska ◽  
Patrycja Łychmus
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Remedial Actions

Summary The article presents the results of research concerning worklife balance of employees of enterprises located in lubuskie voivodeship. The working conditions provided by employers were analyzed. The authors of research checked whether they favor, according to the respondents, the homeostasis between work and private life. The results showed some deficits in this area. This led to reflection on the potential remedial actions which can be applied in the organization, such as a policy of „family friendly employment”.

scholarly journals JOB QUALITY AND WELL-BEING IN OECD COUNTRIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Xose Picatoste ◽  
Mirela Ionela Aceleanu ◽  
Andreea Claudia Șerban
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Job Strain ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Job Quality ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Impact

The lifestyle of world citizens has suffered an unprecedented impact as a result of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19. Economies and worldwide societies expect huge damages comparable to that caused by war. To the effects of this crisis on employment and wages must be added those produced in the workplace, with a foreseeable increase in job strain, not only as of the result of the health security reasons in the workplace but also to the effects on work-life balance, training and promotion possibilities, etc. This research analyses the impact of the economic situation on health, the influence of health on labour strain and on job quality. Using OECD data and a structural equation model, we have investigated the relationship between economy, health, quality of the job, work-life balance and well-being. The importance of security and safeness in the workplace is one of the items for evaluating job strain, particularly when they become even more crucial in pandemic times. This issue implicates not only the real risk of individual and social health but also a stressful situation for workers. The main contribution of our paper relies on establishing and prove causal relations among social and economic variables related to health, well-being and job quality, including safeness at the workplace. Considering that this relationship will probably become reinforced after a pandemic, like COVID-19, the actual relevance of the analysed topic and the achieved results becomes crucial.

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