In the workplace, advances in technology has allowed us to work in ways that weren’t possible in the past. Constraints like location, have become more of a non-issue, and we are more connected to the office than ever before. However, when it comes to balancing those capabilities with our personal lives, for some, that might be a daunting task. While times are indeed changing, technology isn’t hurting us, instead its allowing us to find more of a balance. A study by Accenture, titled “Defining Success
Literature Review Women in the Workplace: Work Life Balance and Equal Opportunity to Enhance Women Empowerment By Asih Budiati Swiss German University, Batch 19 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More and more women now perceive employment and career paths are critically important to them and that parenting as an option is currently unattractive since they feel that parenting is incompatible with their career. Working women have the sense if they want to be succeeded; doing dual role both office and family
3.0 Managing work-family practices at the workplace 3.1 Introduction The generalizability of published studies related to harmonising the work and family domains are uncertain. The topic have been carried out in several studies investigating on aspects such as influencing the impact of practices in particular frameworks (Wood & Stephen, 2007; Beham et al., 2012; Stock et al., 2013). As earlier scholar in this work and family interaction, Rapoport and Rapoport (1965) reported that the effectiveness
A Work-Life Balance Intervention Introduction Historically the concept of reinsurance has been around for thousands of years and the more modern concept of insuring the insurance company has evolved over last couple hundred years. My company, Reinsurance Group of America, RGA was established exclusively on this concept and recently celebrated its 40th year anniversary. In my department almost one-third of the underwriting staff will be retirement eligible in the next five to ten years. Staffing
Work and Life balance has become a consequential topic about a few decades ago up until today. Work-life balance was originally derived in the 1970’s to refer to the balance that exists in one’s professional life and personal one (Newman & Matthews, 1999). In the past decade or so, there has sparked a curiosity in the work-life balance realm. More and more studies and research came about on the topic and attracted the attention of scholars, the government, press, etc. This increase in curiosity could
Work-Life Balance in Fast-Paced Information Technology Companies Introduction In some countries such as France and Denmark, there is a great deal of emphasis on ensuring citizens enjoy an appropriate balance between the demands of their jobs and their personal lives through governmental and private sector programs. In other countries, though, such as Japan and the United States, employees may not enjoy the same level and type of support from their society and organization for their work-life needs
Work-life balance is a concept that divides one’s time and focus into working and family or leisure activities. Work-life balance simply means proper prioritizing between work and lifestyle. Work includes career and ambition whereas, lifestyles include health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development. Work-life balance is considered to be the daily effort to make time for family, friends, social participation, spirituality, personal growth, and other personal activities, in addition to
Literature Review focuses on the implementation of work -life balance policies and the effects they have on organisations. As defined by Lockwood (2003) work-life balance is “a state of equilibrium in which the demands of both a person’s job and personal life are equal.” This paper will review the consequences work life balance policies have on organisational performance, weighing up the cost and benefits for the organisation when introducing a work life balance policy. It is important to determine if the
gender issues in employment and management and analyze equal opportunities policies and strategies for managing diversity and work life balance. First of all, the paper would like to examine the issues relating to women at work in terms of vertical and horizontal gender segregation, and investigate theory to understand why and how subordination of women exists in the workplace. Secondly, how individual women have progressed in organizations and how they have broken through the glass ceiling will be
Upon reflecting on the three main generations that comprise the workplace today, a few differences emerge. “Baby Boomers” grew up in a time when movements were prominent, the Vietnam War occurred, key figures were assassinated, the Watergate Scandal occurred, and television was introduced (Twenge et al., 2010; Schullery, 2013). Overall, “Baby Boomers” seem to exhibit a distrust of authority, value hard work, and want to enjoy their achievements (Robbins & Judge, 2015; Twenge et al., 2010). As such