Work-Life Balance Practices in Nigeria: A Comparison of Three Sectors

Ojo, Ibiyinka Stella; Salau, Odunayo Paul; Falola, Hezekiah Olubusayo

doi:10.7441/joc.2014.02.01

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“…They emphasize that the impact of dealing with work-life balance in a highly individualized manner without addressing the structural barriers that hinder people from utilizing flexible working arrangements may be limited (Todd et al 2013: 228-230). Other papers support this proposition and report on conflicts between organizational discourses and the reality experienced by employees (Thompson et al 2005;Doble et al 2010;Stella et al 2014). …”

Section: Ambivalence or Critique Of Flexibility In Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Spillover: the empirical utilisation of the concept. An empirical review of the social scientific corpus between 2004-2014

Király

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Géring

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In recent decades, spillover has become a highly influential concept which has led to the initiation of new theoretical and methodological approaches that are designed to understand how people attempt to reconcile their work and private lives. The very notion of spillover presupposes that these spheres are connected, since the people who move between them bring certain 'less visible' content with them such as cognitive or affective mental constructs, skills, behaviors, etc. This paper attempts to create fresh insight into the different areas, themes and methodologies related to how spillover has been addressed over the last ten years. Four main categories are discussed based on the 76 academic articles that were selected: (1) general spillover research, (2) job flexibility and spillover, (3) individual coping strategies, and (4) the spillover effect on the different genders. The final section of the paper provides a tentative synthesis of the main conclusions and findings from the examined papers.Keywords spillover, work-life balance, flexibility, gender differences, coping strategy, empirical review 1 Gábor Király (corresponding author) is associate professor at the Budapest Business School and senior lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest, e-mail: kiraly.gabor@pszfb.bgf. hu, gabor.kiraly@uni-corvinus.hu, Beáta Nagy is professor at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Zsuzsanna Géring is research fellow at the Budapest Business School, Márta Radó is Ph.D. student, Yvette Lovas and Bence Pálóczi are undergraduate students at the Corvinus University of Budapest. This review was prepared as part of a Hungarian Scientific Research Fund project (OTKA K104707). The title of the project: Dilemmas and strategies in reconciling family and work. We would like to express our gratitude to Dávid Ádám who contributed to building the database we utilised in this review. Moreover, special thanks to our fellow members in the 'OTKA' research group for the dedication and energy they provided and keep doing so throughout the project. Last but not least, the authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers and editors for their valuable comments and remarks on the previous versions of this paper. Responsibility for any errors in the resulting work remains our own. 94

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Section: Ambivalence or Critique Of Flexibility In Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Spillover: the empirical utilisation of the concept. An empirical review of the social scientific corpus between 2004-2014

Király

Nagy

Géring

et al. 2015

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“…In recent years, work-life balance has been found to be very important in attracting and retaining talent [43,44]. Work-life balance means an employee is achieving balance between work, home, and other life roles [45,46].…”

Section: Moderating Effect Of Work-life Balancementioning

confidence: 99%

Examining the Moderating Effects of Work–Life Balance between Human Resource Practices and Intention to Stay

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Offering services to clients by staff is a major feature of the hotel industry. Therefore, maintaining high-quality and stable services is critical for hotels to stay competitive. As for hotel human resource management, how to effectively increase employee retention is crucial because it not only enhances organizational performance but also reduces personnel cost. In this study, the researchers used structural equation modeling to explore the relationship between job embeddedness, organizational commitment, and intention to stay in tourist hotel interns. Furthermore, work–life balance was used as the moderating variable between organizational commitment and intention to stay. The study subjects were interns who had completed between half and one year of an internship at a tourist hotel and were going to graduate from the school upon completing the internship. The results indicated that job embeddedness has a significant and positive effect on organizational commitment and intention to stay whereas organizational commitment mediates the relationships between job embeddedness and intention to stay. In addition, work–life balance moderates interns’ intention to stay. This study provides the hotel industry with useful management guidelines for retaining employees and improving competitiveness.

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“…Conflicts, particularly between work and family, significantly affect the quality of family life and career attainment for both men and women. Ojo, Stella, Odunayo & Falola (2014) in their investigation on the concept of work-life balance (WLB) policies and practices in three sectors of the Nigerian Economy namely the Banking, Educational and Power Sector. The authors discovered that there is diversity in terms of how respondents perceive the concept of Work-Life Balance.…”

Section: Empirical Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%