scholarly journals The relationship between telework and work-life balance: the role of regulation and collective bargaining

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Carolina Gala Durán
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Availability and Use of Work–Life Balance Programs: Relationship with Organizational Profitability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2965
Author(s):  
DuckJung Shin ◽  
Jackson Enoh
Keyword(s):  
Job Demands ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Business Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The present paper investigated the relationship between work–life balance programs (WLBPs) and business outcomes at the organizational level. First, we examined the effect of WLBPs on organizational profitability (revenues minus expenditures per employee). Second, we extended the discussion on the job demands-resources (JD-R) model by considering how and why WLBPs can mitigate nonjob demands. Specifically, we tested the moderating role of the availability and use of WLBPs in the WLBPs-organizational profitability relationship. We found that both availability and use of WLBPs moderate the WLBPs-profitability relationship. We discussed implications of the findings.

scholarly journals Hungarian Stay-at-Home Fathers: A New Alternative for Family Wellbeing

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Éva Sztáray Kézdy ◽  
Zsófia Drjenovszky
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Significant Factors ◽  
At Home

The two significant factors that influence subjective wellbeing are job and life satisfaction, so the work–life balance, that is, balancing between the two areas, is related to several wellbeing outcomes. This issue is of particular interest in those families, where, even if only temporarily, they have chosen the non-traditional sharing of roles, in which the father becomes the primary caregiver and the mother assumes the role of breadwinner. Very few Hungarian studies focus on families where the mother is the prime breadwinner and there has been no research specifically relating to stay-at-home father–working mother families. The qualitative gap filling research that we conducted was utilized to explore the relationship between achieving work-life balance and wellbeing in case of Hungarian stay-at-home father–working mother couples. A total of 31 families were examined through a semi-structured in-depth interview with the fathers and a short questionnaire with the mothers. All participants were white, heterosexual couples with one to four children. As a result of the analysis, four typical patterns in terms of the stay-at-home father and working mother family dynamics could be identified, including to what extent this non-traditional family format contributes to the father’s, mother’s, or both of their wellbeing.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in the Relationship between Work–Life Balance, Career Opportunities and General Health Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 357
Author(s):  
Francesco Pace ◽  
Giulia Sciotto
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
General Health ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
The Relationship

Although gender equality is increasingly promoted both in the workplace and in society, and women have now fully entered the workforce, the issue of gender differences in relation to career advancement still seems open. Although gender roles no longer clearly define who is responsible for home care and who is responsible for job duties, some research shows that the conflict between family and work life appears to be a greater problem for women than for men. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between career opportunities, work–life balance, and well-being perception separately in both female (n = 499) and male (n = 557) respondents in order to shed light on the role of gender. A multi-group analysis showed that the structural paths of the models differ by gender. For women, the relationships between career opportunities and work–life balance and between career opportunities and the perception of general health have significantly lower values compared to results from the group of men, while the perception of work–life balance affects well-being more significantly when compared to the male counterpart. Implications on the importance of the connection between career and the valorization of personal life duties are further discussed.

Perceived work–life balance and organizational talent management: mediating role of employer branding

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamlesh Kumar Maurya ◽  
Manisha Agarwal ◽  
Dhirendra Kumar Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Employer Branding ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effect of perceived work–life balance on the perceived level of employer branding attraction valueand organizational talent management. Accordingly, the structural model is developed that delineates the interactions among these and explores the mediating effect of employer branding attraction value between the relationship of work–life balance and organizational talent management.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on survey results and review of literature in terms of their implications for the proposed framework. Data have been collected by convenience incidental sampling from middle-level executives working in different information and technology (IT) companies. The model and posited hypotheses were tested through structural equation modeling analysis.FindingsPerceived work–life balance was found to be positive and significantly predicted the employer branding attraction value and organizational talent management. The study also showed that there exists a significant and positive correlation between employer branding attraction value and perceived organizational talent management. Further, employer branding attraction value found to be a mediating construct between the relationship of work–life balance and organizational talent management.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study will add insight into the human resource practitioners to design cost-effective and prolonged popular practices in order to meet the employees work and personal expectations under the organizational association. The research investigated issue within focused IT sector employees to understand and solve the issues generated with changing factors in an organizational environment such as increasing women participation, duel earning couple, and maintaining the difference between various categories of employees at the practice level.Social implicationsThe study has value at both the scholarly and practice level. At a scholarly level, the research investigated an important contemporary issue at both level individual as well as organizational level. In practice if organization implements people friendly work-life balance policies, then this will be surely be helpful in organizational productivity in form of talent management and employer branding and further this will improve the personal and professional performance of most elementary component of developing society.Originality/valueWork–life balance much more depends upon employees' perception, but so far the study has neglected the impact of this perception on other organizational attributes maintained under human resource management. Changes in demographic characteristics and interchangeable role of the youth population in organizations and society as well thrive for the newer approach to deal with the personal and professional aspects of the employees.

Work life balance and job-related affective wellbeing: moderating role of work autonomy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai Meng Yap
Keyword(s):  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Work Autonomy ◽  
Decision To Stay ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
High Work

Studies have been suggesting that millennials put a higher emphasis on their subjective wellbeing experience at work as an aspect in their decision to stay in an organisation. In this paper, we investigated how work-life balance explained job-related affective wellbeing among millennial employees. In addition, we investigated how work autonomy moderated the relationship between work-life balance and job-related affective wellbeing. Our assumptions were; 1) those who had higher work-life balance experienced better job-related affective wellbeing, and 2) when under high work autonomy, job-related affective wellbeing levels will be higher compared to when in lower levels. To test our proposition, we surveyed a total of 272 millennial workers using PROCESS MACRO SPPSS extension. Our results suggested that work autonomy had an extremely important role in increasing millennial workers’ affective wellbeing. Affective wellbeing state of millennial workers were significantly higher when under high work autonomy levels compared to when they were lower. Implication of this paper includes understanding the importance of work autonomy inside the organisation towards millennial workers. It also offers several managerial implications on key areas to improve affective wellbeing of millennials at work.

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