Work Life Balance

1. Work Life Balance Presented By:
Piyush Raj
Nishmitha N
Rashique S
Navitha Pereira
Siddharth Bhatnagar
Group #7

2. Outline
02Stress and Work
Pressure 06Benefits of Work Life
Balance
04Strategies to implement
work life balance
05 Individual’s & Organization’s
approach to WLB
03 Work Life Imbalance 07 Examples
08Conclusion
01 Introduction to Work Life
Balance

3. Introduction to
Work Life Balance

4. Introduction
▰ The division of one's time and focus between working and
family or leisure activities.
▰ Work–life balance is a concept including proper prioritizing
between "work" (career and ambition) and "lifestyle"(Health,
pleasure, leisure, family and spiritual development
/meditation).
▰ There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be
striving for. The best work-life balance is different for each
of us because we all have different priorities and different
lives.
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5. Introduction
▰ An effective work-life balance definition has two key
everyday concepts that are relevant to each of us. They are
daily Achievement and Enjoyment
▰ 40% of the employees are dissatisfied with the balance
between their work and personal lives
▰ Quality of work life enhances Work Life Balance.
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6. Work Life Triangle
Work
Self
Care
Work Life
Triangle
R’ships
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7. Stress and
Work Pressure
The harmful physical and emotional responses that occur when
the requirements of the job do not match the capabilities,
resources, or needs of the worker.

8. Stress and Work Pressure
▰ There are limits to what people are capable of handling, and
those limits differ from one person to the other.
▰ When employees exceed these limits, they may find
themselves facing problems so serious that they are unable
to solve them on their own. That is when they are facing a
work pressure problem.
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9. Stress and Work Pressure
▰ When an employee is unable to meet the demands of work a
work pressure problem arises that can lead to work stress.
▰ Work stress can eventually cause the employee to feel
excessively tired, exhausted and depressed, as well as to
suffer physical ailments.
▰ Stress and work pressure are main contributors to work life
imbalance.
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10. Stress and Work Pressure
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02
03
05
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Major life changes
Work
Relationship
Difficulties
Being Too
Busy
Children
& Family
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Financial
Problems
External
Causes
of Stress
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11. Stress and Work Pressure
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02
03
04
05
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Negative self-talk
Doubt
Inability to accept
uncertainty
Perfectionism
Unrealistic
expectations
Lack of
assertiveness
Internal Causes of Stress
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12. Work Life
Imbalance
A lack of clearly defined and consistently enforced boundaries
between work life and personal life.

13. Work Life Imbalance
▰When we fail to have a healthy work life balance, people end up
experiencing emotional stress, anxiety and depression.
▰Employees who have the tools to balance their professional
and personal lives are happier, healthier, and more productive.
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14. Work Life Imbalance
Factors Of Work Life Imbalance
Social
Factors
Organizational
Factors
Stress
Factors
Work
Issues
Factors
Family
Issues
Factors
Individual
Factors
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15. Work Life Imbalance
Causes of Work Life Imbalance
▰Increased burdens and workload
▰Deterioration of boundaries between work and home
▰Competition
▰Decreased level of refreshment by oneself
▰Distance in personal relations: Less family participation, limited
friendships
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16. Consequences of Work Life
Imbalance
Absenteeism Health Burn Out
Obesity Emotional Problems Exhaustion
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17. Strategies to Implement
Work Life Balance

18. Strategies to Implement WLB
Prioritize Tasks
▰ To have more time for a personal life, we have to clear out
blocks of time in our day to focus on the best work first.
▰ Putting the most important tasks first doesn’t mean less
work.
▰ Managers need to get away from the concept that working
more means being better than the next person. A better
strategy to consider is how to work smarter.
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19. Strategies to Implement WLB
Prevent Burnout
▰ Job burnout is caused by physical, mental and emotional
stress.
▰ Burnout can come from extremes of a single activity such
as staring at spreadsheets and getting tunnel vision.
▰ You have to identify when you or your team needs to slow
down or when to just stop.
▰ Encouraging downtime at work is helpful and teaches
employees to budget time to finish the most important work
first.
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20. Strategies to Implement WLB
Get Further Engagement
▰ Manager that encourages the best work first and make the
employees pause for rest periods will make them revered
among their team.
▰ Employees will commit to perform better and are less likely to
leave the organization.
▰ Employees will be more engaged with the manager, will be
better managers of their own time as a whole, and be
energized to put out the best possible work.
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21. Individual’s &
Organization’s approach
to Work Life Balance

22. Individual’s Approach
Technology
Management
Stress
Management
Change
Management
Time
Management
Leisure
Management
Self
Management
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23. Organization’s Approach
Work Hours
Scheduling
Personal
Development
and Growth
Child Care
Parental
Leave
Telecommuting
& Vacations
Health &
Wellness
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24. Benefits of Work
Life Balance

25. Benefits of Work Life Balance
IndividualOrganization
•Increased individual
productivity, accountability
and commitment
•Better team work and
communication
•Improved morale
•Less negative
organizational stress
•More value and balance in
daily life
•Better physical and
mental health.
•Improved relationships
with family and friends.
•Reduced stress
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26. Examples

27. Examples
▰Free membership to children of all IBMers to the GenieKids
Resource center.
▰IBM employees can also attend Parenting Workshops at the
Resource Center at discounted rates.
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28. Examples
▰ Incorporated family events into its employee calendars, with
social gatherings or outings where the whole family comes
together.
▰ Mandatory number of holidays, discounted gym and saloon
memberships are all attempts by Accenture to maintain the work
life balance.
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29. Conclusion

30. Conclusion
▰ Through work life balance the individual will feel relaxed
and organized.
▰ Productivity of the person increases which will lead
accomplishing task efficiently as well as to attain greater
successes.
▰ It will improve relationship with families and friends. Better
mental and physical health is another benefit.
▰ We will be able to make priorities than sacrificing. Leisure
time is another added plus of work life balance.
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31. ▰ Work Life Balance Defined: Learn The Meaning of Work Life Balance,
<http://www.worklifebalance.com/work-life-balance-defined.html>
▰ What Is Work-life Balance?, <http://work-lifebalance.com/what-is-work-
life-balance/>
▰ Aswathappa, K. (2014). a safe and healthy environment. In human
resource management(7th ed.). New Delhi: McGraw Hill Education Pvt
Ltd.
▰ Relationship Between Work-life Balance And Organizational Excellence:
A Conceptual Model, Volume 3, Issue 9 (September, 2014)
▰ Data Source for WL Imbalance: Quintessential Careers article.
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References

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