3. • Priority questions
• Introduction
• Balancing life
• Desire work
• Issues
• Strategies For Work Life Balance
• Conclusion
Presentation Plan
4. Priority Questions
Give priorities
If most important point 3
If important point 2
If just give priority point 1
What do you prefer?
Education
Career
Family
Health
Spiritual/Religion
Pleasure
5. INTRODUCTION
• Work–life balance is a broad concept
including proper prioritizing between “work”
(career and ambition) on one hand and “life”
(Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual
development) on the other. Related, though
broader, terms include “lifestyle balance” and
“life balance”
7. DESIRE WORK
• Work is about a search for daily meaning as
well as daily bread, for recognition as well as
cash, for astonishment rather than torpor, in
short, for a sort of life – rather than a
Monday through Friday sort of dying…”
Studs Terkel
8. ISSUSES
− Personal – non work
− Career
− Material wealth
− Health
− Learning
− Spiritual / Cultural
9. Reasons Why Staff Leave
Their Jobs
• Staff leave organisation for many reasons such as career
advancement, better job opportunities and retirement,
these departures may be difficult to prevent.
• However, another reason staff leave their jobs,
particularly women is to find a better work life balance.
• These include flexible working hours, time off or leave
arrangement, a lack of access to suitable childcare
arrangement.
• Undue stress and tension in the workplace which make
working life more difficult and unpleasant.
10. Strategies For Work Life
Balance
• DEMOGRAPHICS: According to Australian
bureau of statistics in 2001, one in three working
adults suffer from work- related stress.
• In the world of globalization, economic
rationalization, downsizing and longer shift
hours there is no getting away from stress, it is
the way you deal with it that counts.
• Getting the balance right is a challenge to every
organsation and individuals.
11. Strategies For Work Life
Balance For Employers
• It is the responsibility of all employers to protect their employees to
achieve a better balance between work, family and life commitments.
• This can be achieved by creating a positive work life balance”
thinking” by treating staff as adults who are balancing their work
with commitments.
• Be positive about making flexible changes in the work place in all
aspects of employee relations.
• Create a work life balance policy which enable all employees to
balance work and family responsibilities..
12. Retention and Attraction
Strategy
• To retain staff and better work life, there is need to provide:
• Flexible working hours and consultative rostering arrangement to all
employees including managers and supervisors.
• Flexible leave arrangements and purchased leave as well as extended
leave without pay.
• Introduce leave in single days.
• Increase job mobility within wards and transfer between hospitals,
work areas and health services
• Improving safety wellbeing and respect for all employees in
workplace
13. Conclusion
• To keep our life balance in all aspects such as
work,love,health,pleasure,family and career
• Must use of time as its most valuable resource
• Managing stress
• The needto provide flexibility, awareness and
respect
