Work Life Integration: Tool to Success for Organisations
Keywords:
Work life balance, organization, conflicts, PoliciesAbstract
Organizations focus upon increased revenue generated by its employees, competitive workforce and employee dedication for achieving its strate gic goals in order to meet the challenges of 21st century. Work–life bal ance is a concept including proper prioritizing between “workaholics” (career and ambition) on the one hand and “lifestyle” (Health, pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development) on the other. With the increase in the proportion of dual earner families and the kind of life style finance people are having work life conflicts are inevitable. There is a need for organizations to adopt human resource strategies and policies that ac commodate the work-life needs of a diverse workforce in the current busi ness environment. The findings reveal that work-life balance is both im portant for the organization and for its employee’s particularly in current dynamic organizational scenarios. It helps the organization to improve productivity, efficiency, competitiveness, morale and hence gain a com petitive edge. Similarly employees are benefited from work-life balance initiatives through increased motivation to work, enhanced satisfaction, empowerment and ultimately more commitment to the organization.
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