WORK LIFE BALANCE

Work Life Balance

Table of Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Reasons of imbalance5

Effects5

Importance of Work-Life Balance6

Implications for HRM in Organizations8

Conclusion12

References15

Work Life Balance

Introduction

Management of both work and personal life's demands has become a significant challenge, majority of the people are facing nowadays, and there have been a growing focus on workplace policies which are geared toward enhanced work-life balance. Over the past few decades, in the work unit due to consistent rapid change, nature of work and co-workers to perform and to balance work and life has become increasingly popular concept. However, a universal definition of regulations or decisions of the work-life balance proving to be a research staff, managers and employees is difficult to achieve. This is because the balance of the term does not necessarily equals time and effort committed to the responsibility of the two fields of application volume.

Discussion

The reasons for this phenomenon are relatively recent work life and personal life is the history of independent regional research processing. Large number of social science, business and related literature that focus on work and personal life as two separate areas, individuals can not affect the function of a domain from productive or in other areas. But in the late 20th century, more and more erosion of the concept is established between a theory, thoughts, feelings and behaviors in people's work and personal life contact argument. (Beck, 2005)

Although regarding the work-life balance, there are different models, they generally accepted that the impact of work on family life, and vice versa. The assumption is that from the chain, nothing will affect a region or the positive or negative "spillover" of experience, behavior and attitudes in other areas. Similarly, although separate, all the research shows that all the needs, experiences, happiness, and all lacking in one area can be compensated in other areas. A model, advocated an additional domain is a means to promote or achieve the other region. This pattern in the Dewey and Robert Merton, who is widely regarded as the environment expert believes , something in the environment can be used as tools to achieve results or to address other root causes of environmental problem's philosophical works. For example, the work can be used as a means to achieve the quality of life or the life of a certain standard, part of the case aims at the other work-life balance, as a "conflict" model view. This suggests that these two standards are incompatible with the requirements of very strict, so that individuals must make sacrifices in certain areas to meet the requirements of other areas. (Dex, 2007)

The Cause of the Imbalance

This imbalance and conflict with staff career for several reasons. Personal career aspirations of pressure, deal with family or work, probably due to the situation and individuals. Rate of progress of information technology to improve the supply of market competition for talent has led to a performance culture, and create performance expectations and increasing the pressure each time. In addition, many people find it difficult to refuse others, especially their ...