Work Life Balance (WLB)

Shushma Manandhar 1
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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 So being indifferent to ups and down,

is balancing.
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Through management perspective

 Itis 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 unpaid
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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 them "always" or
impact on their from a friend
managing to fight with "often"
personal and or family
work and people close under
professional member
family to them- stress at
life - because of
responsibilities. 54 % work-
stress-
48 % 31 % 30 %
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 us What makes us

stressed at work stressed at home ?
?
 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
time pressure
lack of love/ appreciation/ recognition
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 home .
 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?
 Whydo Organisations need
work-life balance ?

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

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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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