Creating and Maintaining Balance

2022 ◽  
pp. 533-545
Author(s):  
Kimber O. Underdown ◽  
Crystal L. McCabe ◽  
Michael F. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Self Care ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Online Educators ◽  
Life Work

This chapter will discuss how to ensure that online educators are caring for themselves in order to avoid stress, burnout, and leaving the professions. Because many educators feel additional stressors when working online or from home, the following topics will be discussed to mitigate these stressors: life-work balance, self-care, and mindfulness. Each section will detail the research behind each strategy and will specific ways educators can implement these strategies with ease. The authors share key strategies to work-life balance, self-care, and mindfulness, as well as ways in which the reader can easily teach his or her own students these same skills to increase the likelihood that the future workforce is prepared for the stressors that will inevitably be a part of their lives.

scholarly journals Woman, manage your life! The Life-Work Balance Discourse in Popular Management Literature Aimed at Women*

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Maria Medina-Vicent
Keyword(s):  
Business Management ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Normative Model ◽  
Household Roles ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Life Work

Management posts have traditionally been held by men. Consequently, the business management normative model has dictated the rules women should follow. Among other reasons, this is why the issue of work-life balance has been sidelined in popular management literature. In keeping with these male-dictated rules, it was always blithely assumed that the manager's role was exclusively linked with his public presence — in other words, family and care issues were left out of the equation. However, as more and more women have become managers, new issues have shaped the management agenda. In this paper, we study how the issue of work-life balance has been incorporated in popular management literature for women. We are particularly interested in identifying whether the discourse on women’s presence in management enshrines: (1) a transformative, egalitarian vision (requiring policies fostering work-life balance), or (2) a view that sees women’s traditional household roles as something belonging to the private sphere, leaving them disadvantagedand bereft of support as they pursue their management careers.

Exploring Senior Level Athletic Training Students' Perceptions on Burnout and Work-Life Balance

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-118
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Barrett ◽  
Stephanie M. Mazerolle ◽  
Christianne M. Eason
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Training ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Athletic Training Students ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Cumulative Impact ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Negative Findings

Context: The professional socialization process enables athletic training students (ATSs) to gain insights into behaviors, values, and attitudes that characterize their chosen profession. However, the process often focuses on skill development over professional issues. ATSs may be exposed to burnout and work-life conflict, which may impact their professional perceptions. Objective: Examine the cumulative impact of professional socialization on the ATS regarding their perceptions of burnout and work-life balance. Design: Qualitative research. Setting: Semistructured interviews with 6 individuals and 4 focus groups. Patients or Other Participants: Twenty-three ATSs enrolled in their final semester of Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education–accredited programs at 5 universities (9 male, 14 female; average age = 22 years). Main Outcome Measure(s): Data collection occurred from 2 cohorts over a 2-year period. Participants completed focus group or individual interviews following the same interview guide. Interviews were transcribed verbatim. A general inductive analysis was used to evaluate the data. Themes were enumerated by counting the frequency with which a viewpoint was mentioned. Not all students answered each question. Member checks and a peer review established data credibility. Results: Three major themes emerged from our analysis, where ATSs reported (1) perceiving burnout, (2) recognizing burnout in their preceptors and professors, and (3) that work-life imbalance may be a challenge in the future. Athletic training students described experiencing feelings they attributed to burnout while recognizing similar signs in classmates and preceptors or professors, and acknowledged that having a family could be difficult in the future. Conclusions: Despite these seemingly negative findings, this group of ATSs was not influenced to leave the profession. Observing their preceptors use strategies and positive behaviors gave them hope for the future. Professionals must understand the importance of appropriate socialization when students are exposed to potentially negative situations so they remain optimistic about entering the field.

scholarly journals Tools for Reconciling Professional and Personal Roles in Poland. Challenges and Barriers

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Łukasz Sienkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Barriers And Challenges ◽  
Constant Improvement ◽  
Life Work

One of the key challenges faced by today’s workers is to live at an ever-increasing pace, which creates a conflict between professional and private life. This results from the extension and intensification of working time, the need for constant improvement of competences and, as a result, lack of free time for family life or rest. More and more companies are opting for specialised programmes to prevent imbalances between professional and private life (Work-Life Balance – WLB). However, the scope of solutions applied by Polish employers is not systematically examined. Therefore, the article reviews and analyses the applied solutions in the field of reconciliation of professional and personal life (including family life) in enterprises operating in Poland, as well as barriers and challenges of their implementation. Identified challenges of financial, legislative, organisational and cultural character limit the practical use of such mechanisms.

FUTURE OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE – PARENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

2020 ◽  
Vol 560-561 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Piotr Michoń
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Precarious Employment ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
The Future

Taking the parent’s perspective, the essay addresses the issue of work-life balance. Based on the observed trends, I made an attempt to predict which changes may have the greatest impact on the possibilities of achieving balance in the future: (1) shortening the time spent on performing professional work, (2) wide spreading of tasks contracts, which will increase flexibility as to place and time of performing tasks; (3) spread of precarious employment; (4) increased fathers’ involvement of fathers in childcare. While separately described the changes are interdependent; at the same time, their consequences can be positive (facilitate work-life balance) or negative. Moreover, the described changes will not equally apply to all employees in the future.

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