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Organizational and individual determinants of using initiatives conducive to successful work-life balance

Authors :
Aleksandra Andysz
Anna Najder
Dorota Merecz-Kot
Source :
Medycyna Pracy, Vol 65, Iss 1, Pp 119-129 (2014)
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, 2014.

Abstract

Appropriate distribution of time and energy between work and personal life poses a challenge to many working people. Unfortunately, many professionally active people experience work-family conflict. In order to minimize it, employees are offered various solutions aimed at reconciling professional and private spheres (work-life balance (WLB) initiatives). The authors attempt to answer what makes employees use WLB initiatives and what influences the decision to reject the available options. The review is based on the articles published after 2000, searched by Google Scholar and Web of Knowledge with use of the key words: work-life balance, work-family conflict, work-life balance initiatives, work-life balance initiatives use, use of WLB solutions. We focused on organizational and individual determinants of WLB initiatives use, such as organizational culture, stereotypes and values prevailing in the work environment that may result in stigmatization of workers - flexibility stigma. We discuss the reasons why supervisors and co-workers stigmatize their colleagues, and what are the consequences of experiencing such stigmatization. Among the individual determinants of WLB initiatives use, we have inter alia focused on the preference for integration vs. separation of the spheres of life. The presented material shows that social factors - cultural norms prevailing in a society, relationships in the workplace and individual factors, such as the level of self-control - are of equal importance for decisions of using WLB initiatives as their existence. Our conclusion is that little attention has been paid to the research on determinants of WLB initiatives use, especially to individual ones. Med Pr 2014;65(1):119–129

Details

Language :
English, Polish
ISSN :
04655893 and 23531339
Volume :
65
Issue :
1
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Medycyna Pracy
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.250e81d05534603a21d03f5601a9135
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.13075/mp.5893.2014.012