scholarly journals Flexible and Friendly, But it is fair? Work – Life Considerations Needs Delicate Balance

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S4) ◽  
pp. 363-367
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relations ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
The Individual

For a business to thrive in the current globalization phase, it has to get the formost from its workforce. To do this, staffs got to feel their firms are in obtaining their needs consummated. Its vital to identify and respect the individual requirements of workers. Now it’s not simply a matter of payment and personal promotional prospects. Employees are increasingly basing employment verdict on how well their current potential workplace can support a balance between personal lives and paid occupation. As a result, the employers have changed the operational style and made the work place more friendly and flexible. The paper aims at looking in to the factors that constitute work life balance and also analyze the effect of demographic variables on work life balance. The study was done on the employees of Software and BPO industry. A sample of 315 employees from 10 Software and 10 BPO companies from in and around Madras and Pondicherry was studied. Employee turns out to be a productive provided the environment is conducive. It counts on various factors like supervisor subordinate relations as well as the peer relations. Today IT sectors take up the contract with extremely low quotes which would be enough to just meet the operating expenses. In such a scenario management puts the work pressure on the employee which is beyond the capacity of the employee and time frame.

scholarly journals Work-Life Balance Factors Influencing the Limited Presence of Women Chefs in Hotel Industry of Bengaluru

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Usha Dinakaran
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
The Individual

For women, the difficulty of penetrating historically male-dominated occupations in every sector has always been difficult, and the fact that men are unwilling to accommodate them in those occupations that they dominate has made women to be relegated to the background. When women take up cooking in the professional arena, often they are met with countless challenges and limitations, one of them being the work-life balance. Besides balancing their family life, they face the issue of not being recognized of their calibre at work. Consequently, women chefs are still a rarity in the hotel industry, thereby mirroring the deeply ingraining social and cultural prejudice against women as being the ‘weaker sex’. For the purpose of understanding the contributing work-life balance factors towards the limited presence of women chefs within the hotel industry in Bengaluru, each of the individual factors were needed to be analyzed, specifically the extent of their relationship and influence. In the present study, a survey (N= 123) among women chefs working in the Hotel industry of Bengaluru is considered. The study finds that the women chefs are faced with problems in maintaining work-life balance due to several reasons including lack of organizational support leading to disturbed family life, diluted commitment and performance at work place, delayed marriage leading to frustration and family demands leading to expectations of support from peer group at work. Maintaining work-life balance was found to be of utmost importance for women chefs in order to enhance their performance at their workplace.

scholarly journals A Study On How Women Balances Job and Family in the Wake of Welfare Room

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 107-110
Author(s):  
Abhishikta Pramanik ◽  
Mounika Veeragandham ◽  
Suman Gundu
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Mental Depression ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Work life balance majorly depends upon the way we prioritize our tasks and execute them. In current day technology-based ecosystem with the tremendous pressure by employers on workforce resulted in loss of significance of work life balance. Work life balance is a vital aspect of a healthy work environment. (Alankohil, 2018). The imbalance of professional and personal lives seriously impacts the individual, which may sometimes lead to chronic stress and mental depression. In this paper we highlight the challenges associated in managing the work life balance.

Work Life Balance Of Female Crew In The Aviation Industry: A Case Study

GIS Business ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 206-212
Author(s):  
Dr. D. Shoba ◽  
Dr. G. Suganthi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Aviation Industry ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
High Level

Employees and employers are facing issues in work life balance. It has become a difficult domain now, because the work needs have increased due to an increase in work pressure and complexities in handling the technology. As there are drastic changes in the rules and regulations in the work scenario of the aviation industry, it makes work life balance of employees difficult and set more hurdles. Hence there are many distractions and imbalances in the life of women employees in the aviation industry working across all levels. This work pressure is creating high level of hurdles in maintaining a harmonious job and family life, especially for female aviation employees. Data is collected from 50 female crew members working at Cochin International Airport. The objective of this study is to analyze the work life balance of working females of Cochin International Airport and its influence on their personal and specialized lives. The result of the study shows that the management should frame certain policies which will help employees to have the balance among their personal and expert lives.

Ensuring better output in library services through work life balance: a study of librarians’ opinion

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasmita Rani Samanta ◽  
Bijayalaxmi Rautaray ◽  
Dillip K. Swain
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Level Of Significance

Purpose This paper aims to attempt to explore and examine work–life balance situation of employees working in reputed academic libraries in Odisha, India and to study how they make a balance of duties and assignments offered to them in their respective organizations with that of their personal lives with possible recommendations basing upon the views of the respondents. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates how working librarians of the surveyed institutions maintain work–life balance. A structured questionnaire was administered among the respondents to elicit their responses. The investigators conducted specific interview sessions among some selected librarians of reputed libraries of Odisha, India to know their pragmatic views relating to the way they balance their official works with that of their personal lives. The gathered data was fed into MS Excel file for analysis and subsequent interpretation. SPSS was used for obtaining chi-square value for knowing the level of significance of result. Findings The study finds that majority of respondents express their job satisfaction and happiness with the working environment of their respective institutions, and they are offered annual increments and career promotion, as this has become the key aspect of every organization to retain employees. It further reveals that very few respondents express that they are desired by their respective institutions to devote extra time and very few male respondents indicated that they carry family tension in their mind to their respective work places compared to their female counterparts. Moreover, the study reveals that institutions are proactive enough to embrace modern information communication technology offering suitable digital working ambience to their employees. Research limitations/implications The paper primarily deals with work-life balance of employees in the field of library and information science of the state of Odisha (India) as the respondents in its scope of discussion. Originality/value The paper aims to contribute new knowledge to the corpus of existing literature on work–life balance with some constructive outcomes for effective generalization.

scholarly journals Maneuvering between the individual and the social dimensions of narratives in a poor man’s discursive negotiation of stigma

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorien Van De Mieroop
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Information Control ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dominant Discourses ◽  
The Individual

In current Western consumer societies, the poor are excluded and occupy stigmatized positions. By analyzing an interview with a poor man, I look at how stigma is discursively negotiated through the interplay between individual and social dimensions of narratives. First, the interviewee resists the interviewer’s ‘poor man’-category projection by setting up alternative groups. Second, he invokes and aligns with dominant discourses regarding the necessity to own consumer goods and find a work-life balance, by which he constructs the identity of an empowered “bricoleur” (cf Gabriel et al., 2010). These findings are then related to Goffman’s theory of stigma and information control (1963) and to the inextricable link between the performed nature of narratives, their individual and social dimensions and their local and global contexts.

Answers to All Your Questions about Careers in Community Psychology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judah J. Viola ◽  
Olya Glantsman ◽  
Amber E. Williams ◽  
Cari Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Community Psychology ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Career Changers ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Survey

This chapter answers several of the most frequently asked questions of students and career changers who want to make the best use of their community psychology and related training. The chapter draws from the individual and collective experiences of the authors and over 400 professionals in the field who completed a career survey. Topics focus on preparation, networking, job seeking, work–life balance, and career outlook across several sectors, including academia, health care, government, and the nonprofit arena.

Smartphone as a mediating technology of organization

2019 ◽  
pp. 429-442
Author(s):  
Jennifer Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Small Device ◽  
Power Trust ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Site

This chapter considers the smartphone as organizational force. Its effects are to blur the boundaries between work and home; to involve different constituent actors and forms of power (bypassing traditional organizational gatekeepers); and to raise new forms of service and exclusion. The smartphone is a small device that impacts large-scale organizing. A site of interaction between the individual and organizing, it raises questions of power, trust, transparency, work–life balance, self-monitoring, surveillance, and self-expression. It is associated with the rise of new, less-regulated forms of work and social movements. Organizational scholars need to further unpack its implications for organizations and organizing.

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