scholarly journals Effecten van tijd-ruimtelijke flexibiliteit op de balans tussen werk en privé

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascale Peters ◽  
Laura den Dulk ◽  
Tanja van der Lippe
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
New Employees ◽  
Management By Objectives ◽  
Flexible Working Hours ◽  
Part Time

The Effects of Time-Spatial Flexibility and New Working Conditions on Employees' Work-Life Balance: The Dutch Case The Effects of Time-Spatial Flexibility and New Working Conditions on Employees' Work-Life Balance: The Dutch Case In Dutch organisations, part-time work, flexible working hours and telehomeworking are viewed as solutions to problems employees encounter when they harmonise work and family life. Critics fear, however, that for employees that work under New Working Conditions, characterized by professional job autonomy, team working by project, management by objectives and strict deadlines, time-spatial flexibility may in fact rather enlarge existing combination problems. This paper, therefore, questions whether time-spatial flexibility will lead to a better work-life balance, and if so, does that also hold true for the category of New Employees. Employing data collected in 2003 among 807 Dutch employees it is concluded that time-spatial flexibility indeed affects the work-life balance of workers positively, regardless of them working under New Working Conditions or not. Generally, employees having a smaller part-time job (12-24 contractual working hours per week) experienced a better work-life balance. Especially female workers gained from more control over the temporal location of their work. Telehomeworkers and employees having a larger part-time job (25-35 hours per week) did not experience a better work-life balance. In the concluding section, the results of the study are discussed in the context of contemporary Dutch labour market developments.

scholarly journals Part-Time Work and Gender Inequality in Europe. A Comparative Analysis of Satisfaction with Work–Life Balance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Beham ◽  
Sonja Drobnič ◽  
Patrick Präg ◽  
Andreas Baierl ◽  
Janin Eckner
Keyword(s):  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Part Time Work

Part-time work is an increasingly common strategy for handling work and family—but is it an effective strategy everywhere and for everyone? To answer this question, we examine the satisfaction with work–life balance of workers in 22 European countries included in round five of the European Social Survey. Our results show that part-time workers are more satisfied with their work–life balance than full-time workers; the more so, the fewer hours they put in. Yet, we find an important gender difference: Women in marginal part-time work (< 21 hours/week) are more satisfied than men in a similar situation, and conversely men in full-time work are more satisfied than women working full-time. Further, the societal context plays an important role: substantial part-time work (21–34 hours/week) is more conducive to satisfaction with work–life balance in more gender-egalitarian countries than in countries with low gender equality. Hence, a supportive gender climate and institutional support may entice workers to reduce working hours moderately, which results in markedly increased levels of SWLB.

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.

scholarly journals 1328 Attitudes toward working conditions: are european union workers satisfied with their working hours and work-life balance?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Matilla-Santander ◽  
Cristina Lidón-Moyano ◽  
Adrián González-Marrón ◽  
Kailey Bunch ◽  
Juan Carlos Martín-Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance

scholarly journals 85 WORK-LIFE-BALANCE BENEFITS AS BRAIN DRAIN PREVENTION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliška Nacházelová ◽  
◽  
Alice Reissová ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Flexible Working Hours ◽  
Important Benefit ◽  
The Right

The contribution of highly qualified employees, not only for multinational companies, is unquestionable. Their eventual departure often has negative economic consequences, and their replacement is usually difficult and expensive. Therefore, it is important to pay increased attention to their stabilization. This article aims to find out which of the work-life balance area benefits are more important for the stabilization of IT employees in an international automotive company (n=154). With the use of the Friedman test, it was found out that the most important benefit is flexible working hours. Based on the Kruskal-Wallis test, the evaluation of the importance of individual benefits was further verified according to basic socio-economic factors (age, gender, length of employment). The right setting of benefits will give a competitive advantage in the search for new talent and at the same time serve as an effective tool against brain drain.

scholarly journals IMPACT OF ROLE OVERLOAD AND WORKING HOURS ON WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN SERVICE INDUSTRY

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayma Zia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Family Demands

Purpose: Main purpose of this study is to determine the hindrances found in work-life balance among genders in Service Industry. Methodology/Sampling: Data is comprised of 250 samples out of which 10 were discarded due to provided wrong information however rest of 240 were used for the analysis out of which 120 are males and the rest 120 are females. To test the reliability of constructs SPSS Software version 21.0 is used and calculated through Cronbach Alpha. Frequency test, Cross-tabulation, Graphical representation, Correlation and Regression analysis were used for data analysis. Findings: Findings shows that the organizations used in the study did not give any support to work life balance idea. These organizations promote overtime and extended working hour culture. Even male employees are unable to meet their family demands due to late sittings and found carrying stress related diseases most commonly headaches. In contrast, female employees were found in better conditions regarding fulfilling their family commitments because they are not pressurized by their employers for late sittings. Practical Implications: This study is useful for the organizations that if they implement flexible hours' policy to maintain work and family life. It will be more beneficial to the employees and employers for the better results.

Legal Technology and the Future of Women in Law

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 164-183
Author(s):  
Kayal Munisami
Keyword(s):  
Due Process ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Flexible Working Hours ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
Legal Technology ◽  
Equality And Diversity

Much has been written about how automation will change the legal profession as a whole, less so about how automation might affect women in legal practice. This paper briefly maps the likely changes that legal tech (legal technology) will bring to the provision of legal services, and explores how these changes might affect the barriers to advancement that women face in the profession. It determines that, while the use of legal tech may improve women’s work/life balance and overall job satisfaction by bringing about more flexible working hours, positive changes to the billing hours’ system, and fairer hiring and promotion mechanisms, an unfettered inclusion of legal tech might lead to increased working hours for less wages, increased competition for case files among associates, and the perpetuation of existing gender biases when using algorithms in the hiring and promotion process. Finally, the paper makes several recommendations on how law societies, bar associations and other relevant regulatory bodies could ensure that legal tech promotes rather than hinders Equality & Diversity in the legal profession. It proposes that: (1) detailed data on men and women lawyers should be collected to better inform equality and diversity policies; (2) law firms should be required to report on their progress in pursuing equality and diversity; (3) management techniques to promote work/life balance and more flexible pricing systems should be encouraged; (4) female entrepreneurship in legal tech should be promoted; and, (5) technological due process procedures should be required when using algorithms in law firm management to ensure fairness, accuracy and accountability.

scholarly journals Attitudes toward working conditions: are European Union workers satisfied with their working hours and work-life balance?

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuria Matilla-Santander ◽  
Cristina Lidón-Moyano ◽  
Adrián González-Marrón ◽  
Kailey Bunch ◽  
Juan Carlos Martín-Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance

scholarly journals Work-Life Balance and Employee Performance: A Study of Selected Deposit Money Banks in Lagos State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1787-1795
Author(s):  
Akpa Victoria O. ◽  
Egbuta Olive U. ◽  
Akinlabi Babatunde H. ◽  
Magaji Nanle
Keyword(s):  
Work Performance ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Lagos State

Work-life balance is one of the prevailing issues in many organizations. Inability of workers to balance work and family could lead to increased rates of absenteeism, stress, employee turnover, job dissatisfaction and poor work performance. It is therefore essential for employees to maintain stability between work and their private lives. This research examined the effect of work-life balance on employee performance of selected deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted. The target population was 54,028 employees, which consisted of all employees of the six selected Deposit Money Banks in Lagos State, Nigeria. A sample size comprising 520 employees were selected using random sampling technique. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and simple regression analysis. The findings revealed that job stress significantly affects quality of work of employees (F= 33.500, p< 0.05); and long working hours significantly affects motivation of employees in the selected deposit money banks in Lagos State (F= 8.716, p< 0.05). However, the study reveals that role overload has no significant effect on job satisfaction of employees in selected deposit money banks in Lagos State (F= 0.011, p> 0.05). This study concludes that work-life balance has significant effect on employee performance in the selected deposit money banks in Lagos State, Nigeria.

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