Worklife Balance Presentation 2008

WORK LIFE BALANCE

What Is Work Life Balance?

Work life balance is an individual’s ability to fulfill their work and lifestyle responsibilities with minimal conflict and maximum contentment.

How To Balancing Your Work Life?

• Think about what is important to you

• Set goals• Make changes to make

time for what is important to you

• Plan and organize• Recognize and deal

with stress.

What Employees Look From Work Life Balance?

♦ WORKPLACE

Employees need to be comfortable in any workplace, whether it is a formal or informalenvironment.

♦ FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS

Flexible working opportunities can benefit everyone: employers, employees and their families. Most employers now recognize that it makes good business sense to provide flexible working opportunities for their staff.

♦ FITNESS AND HEALTH FACILITIES

The benefit of health and fitness Education for employees is two fold. The employee will gain lower levels of stress, an increase level of self esteem and improved physical fitness with increased stamina. The employer gains employee productivity increases, decreased rates of illness, and develops employee leadership skills. Employers want to keep the people who can do their job as good as possible, and these people need to have healthy minds and bodies to be able to get everything done.

How employee will explore patterns of cross - cultural communication, common causes of misunderstanding, how they blend among each other.

♦ CULTURAL EVENTS

♦ COOL AND FUNKY STUFF

In certain condition, employee desire things outside their daily routine.Recreation or outdoor activities couldbe a good example.

• Employees are looking for the organizational structure who allows the expressed allocation of responsibilities for different functions and processes to different entities.

♦ ORGANIZATION HIERARCHY/STRUCTURE

• Employee are eager for appreciation and involvement.

• Promoting professional growth through personal development result in strongly linking to an organization.

“Every job is a self portrait of a worker. Autograph your work with excellence” (Anon.)

♦ PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

♦ ORGANIZATION CULTURE

Personalities and experiences of employees create the culture of an organization. For example, if most of the people in an organization are very outgoing, the culture is likely to be open and sociable.

♦ SENSITIVE TO FAMILY

Prosperity for employees and their family is what they have as an expectation from the employer.

♦ BENEFITS

Rewarding a proper benefit for employee, will increaseemployee’s productivity and creativity.

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU’VE GOT IT?

• You are content with work and personal life• You feel in control• You are able to meet you responsibilities at

home, at work an community without guilt or regret.

• You are healthy physically, emotionally and socially.

• You feel that the decision you make are informed choices as opposed to forced sacrifices.

THRIVING NOT SURVIVING

• Optimism

• Hope

• Trust

• Support