Work-life and life-work conflicting croatian companies: Some perspectives

Mušura, Andrijana; Koričan, Mirna; Krajnović, Siniša

doi:10.1108/ijotb-16-01-2013-b003

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“…Over the past decade, there has been a fairly robust body of literature, which indicates about that there is fairly strong between link between WLB initiatives an organizational growth (Glass and Estes, 1997; Perry-Smith and Blum, 2000; Oludayo et al , 2018; Melo et al , 2018; Asawo, 2018). Previous research notifies that, while employees are doing a lot to meet the demands of high-performance work system, regardless of sector, employees are also very conscious about their healthy WLB (Sirgy and Lee, 2018; Musura et al , 2013). In today's context employees’ are keen to acquire WLB besides their career, that is why it would be very challenging in the organizations to attract, retain and develop its human resources, unless, organizations have proper strategy about integrating the work and life of the employees.…”

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Perceived work–life balance and organizational talent management: mediating role of employer branding

Maurya

Agarwal

Srivastava³

2020

IJOTB

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PurposeThis paper aims to examine the effect of perceived work–life balance on the perceived level of employer branding attraction valueand organizational talent management. Accordingly, the structural model is developed that delineates the interactions among these and explores the mediating effect of employer branding attraction value between the relationship of work–life balance and organizational talent management.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on survey results and review of literature in terms of their implications for the proposed framework. Data have been collected by convenience incidental sampling from middle-level executives working in different information and technology (IT) companies. The model and posited hypotheses were tested through structural equation modeling analysis.FindingsPerceived work–life balance was found to be positive and significantly predicted the employer branding attraction value and organizational talent management. The study also showed that there exists a significant and positive correlation between employer branding attraction value and perceived organizational talent management. Further, employer branding attraction value found to be a mediating construct between the relationship of work–life balance and organizational talent management.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study will add insight into the human resource practitioners to design cost-effective and prolonged popular practices in order to meet the employees work and personal expectations under the organizational association. The research investigated issue within focused IT sector employees to understand and solve the issues generated with changing factors in an organizational environment such as increasing women participation, duel earning couple, and maintaining the difference between various categories of employees at the practice level.Social implicationsThe study has value at both the scholarly and practice level. At a scholarly level, the research investigated an important contemporary issue at both level individual as well as organizational level. In practice if organization implements people friendly work-life balance policies, then this will be surely be helpful in organizational productivity in form of talent management and employer branding and further this will improve the personal and professional performance of most elementary component of developing society.Originality/valueWork–life balance much more depends upon employees' perception, but so far the study has neglected the impact of this perception on other organizational attributes maintained under human resource management. Changes in demographic characteristics and interchangeable role of the youth population in organizations and society as well thrive for the newer approach to deal with the personal and professional aspects of the employees.

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Perceived work–life balance and organizational talent management: mediating role of employer branding

Maurya

Agarwal

Srivastava³

2020

IJOTB

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“…Nicklin and Mcnall (2013) considered family as well as work is the two most important domains for any individual. Achieving the harmony between work and personal life is significantly important from both the employer and employee perspective (Mušura et al, 2013). As a strong connection exists between work-family balance and overall job satisfaction, the balance between these two is critical to any working person (Rocereto et al, 2011).…”

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Challenges of Work-Life Balance Faced by Working Fathers in Kathmandu Valley

Devkota

Shakya

Parajuli

et al. 2022

IJMHRR

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Work-life balance has been considered as important component in individual life. Today in order to attract and retain their employees organizations are considering work-life balance as their prime concern. The main purpose of this study is to examine the work-life balance of working fathers in Kathmandu Valley. This study followed descriptive method of data analysis and 405 samples were collected with the help of non-probability sampling method. Further, the study revealed that satisfaction and motivation are considered to be key factors that help to maintain work-life balance. However unhelpful attitude of colleagues is found to be major reason creating work-life unbalance. 77.03% working fathers stated that they face challenge in maintaining work-life balance. This, it is recommended that by maintaining structural consistency in the workplace challenges of work-life can be mitigated up to certain extent. These findings will have implication at organizational level. The study concluded that high level stress, unsupportive relationships, unrealistic demands, unhelpful attitude and lack of control were found to be major challenges for maintaining work-life balance.

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“…For Clark [6] it's a satisfaction and good functioning at work and at home with minimum role conflict'. Similarly, Kirchmeyer [7] suggests it's about achieving, satisfying experiences in all life domains, and to do so requires personal resources such as energy, time, and commitment to be well distributed across domains.…”

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“…There is therefore the need for construction organizations to have WLB policies in place in order to increase employee's productivity. Developing and implementing WLB policies will also decrease individual's health workers risk [7] . For instance, prior studies have shown that people who take their vacations and annual leaves are much more productive than those who do not [8] .…”

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Construction workers work-life balance: A tool for improving productivity in the construction industry

Apraku¹,

Bondinuba²,

Eyiah³

et al. 2020

Soc Work Soc Welf

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This paper examines the relationship between construction workers work-life balance and productivity in the construction industry in Ghana. Survey method was adopted where 200 Questionnaires were administered to small and medium construction firms and 150 response were obtained. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) was also carried out to establish the relationship between the predictor (WLB) and criterion latent variable set (Productivity). It emerged that there is a relationship between construction workers work life balance and productivity in the construction industry. This work strives to engender a wider academic debate and renew the need for work life balance policies that will enhance productivity to be revisited. Management of construction organisations must develop and implement construction workers work-life balance polices at their place of work.

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Work-life and life-work conflicting croatian companies: Some perspectives

Cited by 13 publications

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Perceived work–life balance and organizational talent management: mediating role of employer branding

Perceived work–life balance and organizational talent management: mediating role of employer branding

Challenges of Work-Life Balance Faced by Working Fathers in Kathmandu Valley

Construction workers work-life balance: A tool for improving productivity in the construction industry

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