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Work Life Balance
This document presents information on work-life balance. It begins with an introduction defining work-life balance and discussing its importance. It then covers topics like stress and work pressure, strategies to implement work-life balance, and the benefits of work-life balance for both individuals and organizations. Specific strategies discussed include prioritizing tasks, preventing burnout, and getting further employee engagement. The document also provides examples of work-life balance policies from companies like IBM and Accenture. It concludes that achieving work-life balance can increase productivity and improve mental and physical health.
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- 1. Work Life BalancePresented By: Piyush Raj Nishmitha N Rashique S Navitha Pereira Siddharth Bhatnagar Group #7
- 2. Outline 02Stress and Work Pressure06Benefits of Work Life Balance 04Strategies to implement work life balance 05 Individual’s & Organization’s approach to WLB 03 Work Life Imbalance 07 Examples 08Conclusion 01 Introduction to Work Life Balance
- 3. Introduction to Work LifeBalance
- 4. Introduction ▰ The divisionof one's time and focus between working and family or leisure activities. ▰ Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing between "work" (career and ambition) and "lifestyle"(Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development /meditation). ▰ There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be striving for. The best work-life balance is different for each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives. 1
- 5. Introduction ▰ An effectivework-life balance definition has two key everyday concepts that are relevant to each of us. They are daily Achievement and Enjoyment ▰ 40% of the employees are dissatisfied with the balance between their work and personal lives ▰ Quality of work life enhances Work Life Balance. 2
- 6. Work Life Triangle Work Self Care WorkLife Triangle R’ships 3
- 7. Stress and Work Pressure Theharmful physical and emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker.
- 8. Stress and WorkPressure ▰ There are limits to what people are capable of handling, and those limits differ from one person to the other. ▰ When employees exceed these limits, they may find themselves facing problems so serious that they are unable to solve them on their own. That is when they are facing a work pressure problem. 4
- 9. Stress and WorkPressure ▰ When an employee is unable to meet the demands of work a work pressure problem arises that can lead to work stress. ▰ Work stress can eventually cause the employee to feel excessively tired, exhausted and depressed, as well as to suffer physical ailments. ▰ Stress and work pressure are main contributors to work life imbalance. 5
- 10. Stress and WorkPressure 01 02 03 05 06 Major life changes Work Relationship Difficulties Being Too Busy Children & Family 04 Financial Problems External Causes of Stress 6 6
- 11. Stress and WorkPressure 01 02 03 04 05 06 Negative self-talk Doubt Inability to accept uncertainty Perfectionism Unrealistic expectations Lack of assertiveness Internal Causes of Stress 7
- 12. Work Life Imbalance A lackof clearly defined and consistently enforced boundaries between work life and personal life.
- 13. Work Life Imbalance ▰Whenwe fail to have a healthy work life balance, people end up experiencing emotional stress, anxiety and depression. ▰Employees who have the tools to balance their professional and personal lives are happier, healthier, and more productive. 8
- 14. Work Life Imbalance FactorsOf Work Life Imbalance Social Factors Organizational Factors Stress Factors Work Issues Factors Family Issues Factors Individual Factors 9
- 15. Work Life Imbalance Causesof Work Life Imbalance ▰Increased burdens and workload ▰Deterioration of boundaries between work and home ▰Competition ▰Decreased level of refreshment by oneself ▰Distance in personal relations: Less family participation, limited friendships 10
- 16. Consequences of WorkLife Imbalance Absenteeism Health Burn Out Obesity Emotional Problems Exhaustion 11
- 17. Strategies to Implement WorkLife Balance
- 18. Strategies to ImplementWLB Prioritize Tasks ▰ To have more time for a personal life, we have to clear out blocks of time in our day to focus on the best work first. ▰ Putting the most important tasks first doesn’t mean less work. ▰ Managers need to get away from the concept that working more means being better than the next person. A better strategy to consider is how to work smarter. 12
- 19. Strategies to ImplementWLB Prevent Burnout ▰ Job burnout is caused by physical, mental and emotional stress. ▰ Burnout can come from extremes of a single activity such as staring at spreadsheets and getting tunnel vision. ▰ You have to identify when you or your team needs to slow down or when to just stop. ▰ Encouraging downtime at work is helpful and teaches employees to budget time to finish the most important work first. 13
- 20. Strategies to ImplementWLB Get Further Engagement ▰ Manager that encourages the best work first and make the employees pause for rest periods will make them revered among their team. ▰ Employees will commit to perform better and are less likely to leave the organization. ▰ Employees will be more engaged with the manager, will be better managers of their own time as a whole, and be energized to put out the best possible work. 14
- 21. Individual’s & Organization’s approach toWork Life Balance
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- 23. Organization’s Approach Work Hours Scheduling Personal Development andGrowth Child Care Parental Leave Telecommuting & Vacations Health & Wellness 16
- 24. Benefits of Work LifeBalance
- 25. Benefits of WorkLife Balance IndividualOrganization •Increased individual productivity, accountability and commitment •Better team work and communication •Improved morale •Less negative organizational stress •More value and balance in daily life •Better physical and mental health. •Improved relationships with family and friends. •Reduced stress 17
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- 27. Examples ▰Free membership tochildren of all IBMers to the GenieKids Resource center. ▰IBM employees can also attend Parenting Workshops at the Resource Center at discounted rates. 18
- 28. Examples ▰ Incorporated familyevents into its employee calendars, with social gatherings or outings where the whole family comes together. ▰ Mandatory number of holidays, discounted gym and saloon memberships are all attempts by Accenture to maintain the work life balance. 19
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- 30. Conclusion ▰ Through worklife balance the individual will feel relaxed and organized. ▰ Productivity of the person increases which will lead accomplishing task efficiently as well as to attain greater successes. ▰ It will improve relationship with families and friends. Better mental and physical health is another benefit. ▰ We will be able to make priorities than sacrificing. Leisure time is another added plus of work life balance. 20
- 31. ▰ Work LifeBalance Defined: Learn The Meaning of Work Life Balance, <http://www.worklifebalance.com/work-life-balance-defined.html> ▰ What Is Work-life Balance?, <http://work-lifebalance.com/what-is-work- life-balance/> ▰ Aswathappa, K. (2014). a safe and healthy environment. In human resource management(7th ed.). New Delhi: McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd. ▰ Relationship Between Work-life Balance And Organizational Excellence: A Conceptual Model, Volume 3, Issue 9 (September, 2014) ▰ Data Source for WL Imbalance: Quintessential Careers article. 20 References
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