Discussion regarding Balancing work and personal responsibilities
Discussion regarding Balancing work and personal responsibilities
In preparation for this discussion, read the following articles:
Work, Family, and Stress (Clark, 1992)
Flexible Work Arrangements (Koch, 1998)
Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance (Links to an external site.)
Everybody Wins With a Healthy Work-Life Balance (Links to an external site.)
10 Ways to Establish a Better Work/Life Balance (Links to an external site.)
Balancing work and personal responsibilities can be a challenge. Employers are increasingly acknowledging these struggles and are instituting policies to help address them. Please address the following:
Suggest two policies that you think employers could institute that would best promote work-life balance among their employees. Be sure to explain why you think these policies would help.
Would all employees benefit from these policies or just certain types of employees?
Once these policies are instituted in the workplace, what role does workplace culture play in whether or not employees take advantage of them?
What effect would these policies promoting work-life balance have on workplace productivity?
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Many employees and more so those who have families face many hurdles when balancing their personal and work lives. This will at times interfere with their productivity work. Hence, the employers should institute policies that will help the employee overcome those hurdles………………
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