Extending Work-Life Balance Initiatives

Work Life Balance – What Balance?

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” Anonymous. This quote stands out because as we highlight our career goals and strategically plan for them, our personal lives often happen as an afterthought. To be successful at achieving a work–life balance, we should pay equal attention to planning all spheres of our life. While God and Family have been the bedrock in my own...

Beyond Work-Life "Balance".

T he desire for better work-life balance is a common concern among physicians and a key reason for choosing employed practice. But the term work-life balance has always struck me as problematic. In my experience, achieving a true balance between work and non-work activities is incredibly challenging and, when achieved, is fleeting. My moment of balance is quickly upended by a sick child, a pa...

Work-life balance.

A Study of Multiple Work-life Balance Initiatives in Banking Industry in Nigeria

This study examines the effect of a time usage policy on employee’s work-life conflict and the impact of leave programmes on employes’ attitude using five selected banks in Nigeria. A sample of N=386 respondents were randomly selected from these banks to participate in the study. Questionnaire was used to collect information from respondents. The standard multiple regression was used to generat...

Measuring the Impact of Work-life Initiatives: the Development of an Organisational Work-life Performance Scale

Work-life balance is an area of increasing importance to both employees seeking to balance work and non-work roles a nd to organisations striving to improve their organisational effectiveness or competitive advantage (Greenhaus & Powell 2006; Gregory & Milner 2009). While there is no consistent definition of work-life balance, there are consistent themes which include: employees achieving an ac...