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Work Life Balance (WLB)

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Work Life Balance is related to:

Life events
Perception and priority we give
them
Work efficiency
Managing self, stress, time and
relationship
 In the lack of proper balance
between job and life:

 Depressions
 Run away from home
 Suicide
 Alcoholic, wrong tracks

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Spiritual view –
Looking through
 Full of events/ long lists of dreams/desires

Competitions and compromising

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 Sobeing indifferent to ups and down, is


balancing.
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Through management perspective

 It
is managing self,
emotions, stress, time and
relationship.

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Present scenarios in societies.
 Expanded work area- moving far from
home
 Multi job- taking many jobs at a time

 Long working hours – continuous/shift

to shift
 Converting into nuclear family-

husband, wife and kids


 Women’s Dual career- paid and

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In the lack of proper understandings
misunderstandings occur.
May arise conflicts.
stress at home.
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 Stressis directly linked
with person’s health,
performance and
relationship with others.

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Who have more stress, have more chances to
have diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and
many more. 10
Few Stress Impact Data
 Source: American Psychological Association,
American Institute of Stress, NY

stress being
has a they have stress has they are
negative alienated
difficulty caused "always"
impact on from a
managing them to or "often"
their friend or
work and fight with under
personal and family
family people stress at
professional member
responsibiliti close to work-
life - because of
es. them- 30 %
stress-
48 % 31 % 54 % 26 %
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What do we understand by
Work-Life Balance ?
WLB

knowing what our priorities are,


and what really matters to us.
An art of achieving
satisfaction, by managing self,
others, stress and time.
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In society, we parent

have many roles Special


grand
Identity
with lots of parent

responsibilities individual

that we have to employee children

perform social

simultaneously . worker

conflict occurs when we are unable to give our


"many roles" required times and energy
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Home, where the heart is.

Work place, next home to


employees

If we can not cope between


these two important
components of life.....
they could be both a big stressors

Home would be "hell" &


workplace would be a "war
place"
The stressors

Work Vs Home

What makes What makes us


us stressed at stressed at home
work ? ?
Work vs Home
Bad boss, uncooperative colleagues/Un compatible
spouse, unhelpful
members
Task not having knowledge & skills/ out of
interested
too many responsibilities/ too few
resources
miscommunication/
misunderstanding
lack of cooperation/ lack of support
attitude issues/ lack of respect
partiality/ favouritism
office policy/ social rules
Lack of boundaries is also a big stressor

Q: Can you remember a time


when you were not able to say
'No', but in retrospect, should
have?

What causes this inability?


Reasons for inability
 Respect to senior
 Fear
 Not wanting to spoil the relation
 To get recognition
 Taking it as challenge
 To bargain later for benefits

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To mitigate the conflict, it is
crucial to prioritise and
strike a balance between
work, home and interest.
Does balancing work and family life
mean dividing time for them equally
50/50 ?

or or
40/60 70/30
? ?

It is more likely to giving more priority to


any one of them, whether work or
Right Balance
varies from time to time
-today/tomorrow
-single/married/unmarried

because of different priorities at


different times.

Right balance reduces stress


Is our life in balance?
 Why do Organisations
need
work-life balance ?

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Individual Organization
 -happy person  -reduce
 -positive absenteeism
thinking  -reduce turn over
 -improve  -more creativeness
health and team works
 -better  -increase
relationships productivity and
 -motivated job satisfaction
 -reduce stress
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A case

 Hope
 Moral

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 According to the OECD’s Better Life
Index, Denmark has the best work-life
balance of the 20 OECD countries
studied.
 Most employees in Denmark don't
work long hours, and government
policies support families with young
children, allowing people to balance
their work and home life.
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 According to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development’s Better Life
Index, Denmark has the best work-life
balance of the 20 OECD countries studied.

 Most employees in Denmark don't work


long hours, Only 2% of people in full-time
employment work very long hours,
whereas 45 % in Turkey.
 Government policies support families with
young children, allowing people to balance
their work and home life.

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What are your suggestions

 To effectively balance work and


life

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Don't try to balance work and
life. Integrate the two.
 “The research, published in the
journal Human Relations, studied
over 600 employees…
 Keeping work and home life separate
could actually be making you more
stressed. Instead, integrating the two
is the best strategy to strike the right
balance.”
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 Though there are no
silver bullet solutions,
 What can we do to have a
better-work life balance?

 What can the Employer/


Organization do to help the
employee with WLB?

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On a personal Level:
 Objectively Analyze
 Am I spending too much time/ effort/

money on something?
 What are my boundaries?

 Can I assert myself where needed?

 Look into big picture that can help you to


see the root cause.
 Personal Growth
 How can I build better self-esteem? How

can I nurture myself more?


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Managing Self

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Understand what really matters

 Understand and be clear about your


needs
 Prioritize and Value them

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Be Generous to self

 Health is wealth.
 (as long as your health is with you,
the world goes along with you…)
 Create some special time to
relax, to be happy
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Know the limit

 No one is perfect. No one can do


everything.
 If you can, compete. If not, compromise.
 Be happy with what you have today.

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Set boundaries and learn
to say no.

 "Being a YES MAN doesn't mean


blindly fulfilling everyone's demands
 Learn to say no, if there is too much
in your plate.
Saying no to one thing opens the door to
saying yes to something else”
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Managing Relationship

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Understand others too
 Value the people you care
 Show your love and affection

 Take care of senior members at home.


 Good communication - Better
interpersonal relations (Do not hurt or betray by
words and behaviour)

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Helping hands

 share the load- divide the task at


home, work in team at organization,
 don't let come ego in between
 ask for and be ready to help.

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Trust and Delegate
 Trust others too and let them
work on their own.
 Delegate works (don't get fish for
them, teach them how to fish)

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Managing Emotions

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Be positive

 Manage your emotions, try to be


indifferent in every ups and down
 Do things that make you cool.

 yoga, praying, spirituality

 Read books, go to cinema, Visit

places, fun activities, call friends.

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Share your feelings

 Worry, but only to the point it


helps.
 Do not react quickly.
 Share your feelings with your

closed ones.

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Self Evaluation
 Let things go and forget what
you couldn't do.

 Forget and Forgive


 Learn from your mistakes.

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Managing Conflict

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Listen to the people
 Do not go with the rumors

 Try to find out the root cause

 Proper communication

 Accept - Avoid
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Managing Time

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Be Organized

 Set small,
manageable and
achievable goals

 Prioritize your
work.

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Know your weakness and strength

Plan and Prepare. Update yourself


with knowledge & skill
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Plan,

but do not run


your life on a
time table.

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Understand, time is money
 Use a work diary,
 Send yourself reminders
 Check lists, set dead lines.
lines
 don't procrastinate

 Try to identify your time wasters and


avoid it.(social medias, gossiping)

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Keep correcting

In regular basis try to correct


as per need and make work
and family life balanced.

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From the Organization's Side
 Time

 Working hours
 Maternity/paternity leave

 Force leaves

 Alternate leave

 Flexi time, flexi place, part time

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 Facility and resources
 Baby care centre
 facility to work with spouse

 Telecommuting

 Job rotate, job sharing

 Free counseling

 Sponsor family events/picnic

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The happier you are, the better
you can perform.

Thank you.

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