An Investigation into Students’ Experience of the Work-Life Balance
Student ID: 2163506
Module Code: PM002 2T
Tutor: Jeff Meadowcroft
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An investigation into students’ experience of work life balance
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Rationale
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Although many empirical researches have explained vital elements of Quality of Work Life (QWL) in the past, however, the subject of work life balance has not been fully explored. Up to date, contemporary studies have become more closely focused on the Work–Life balance literature where individuals seek equilibrium in their management of work and life issues and organizations seek to understand activities and needs of employees in order to develop successful policies and programs
(Kossek and Lambert, 2008: 165). Scholars of the past have proposed a range of concepts and recommendations of what establishes work life balance. For example, work life balance is a term with a set of theories which sustains that humans are the most essential part in the corporations, and they should be treated with dignity and respect because they are responsible, intelligent and able to make invaluable contribution (Straw and Heckscher, 1984: 63). The factors which are related to work life balance of an individual include the assignment, the actual working condition, social surroundings within the corporations, political systems and connection between work and life
(Cunningham and Eberle, 1990: 57).
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This retrospect of the explanation of work life balance shows that it is a multidimensional structure which consisted of a quantity of correlated factors that need careful deliberation to theorize and evaluate. With the work environment becoming more complex and diverse, creative methods and approaches emerged to deal with issues that were non-existent in the past. The shift from Work–Life balance to Work–Life Integration became common place and dominant scholars such as Normala
(2010: 64) developed lifestyle as an a separate career anchor affecting consideration for work choices. Work life balance is a expanded and comprehensive program
Module Code: PM002 2T
Tutor: Jeff Meadowcroft
!
An investigation into students’ experience of work life balance
!
Rationale
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Although many empirical researches have explained vital elements of Quality of Work Life (QWL) in the past, however, the subject of work life balance has not been fully explored. Up to date, contemporary studies have become more closely focused on the Work–Life balance literature where individuals seek equilibrium in their management of work and life issues and organizations seek to understand activities and needs of employees in order to develop successful policies and programs
(Kossek and Lambert, 2008: 165). Scholars of the past have proposed a range of concepts and recommendations of what establishes work life balance. For example, work life balance is a term with a set of theories which sustains that humans are the most essential part in the corporations, and they should be treated with dignity and respect because they are responsible, intelligent and able to make invaluable contribution (Straw and Heckscher, 1984: 63). The factors which are related to work life balance of an individual include the assignment, the actual working condition, social surroundings within the corporations, political systems and connection between work and life
(Cunningham and Eberle, 1990: 57).
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This retrospect of the explanation of work life balance shows that it is a multidimensional structure which consisted of a quantity of correlated factors that need careful deliberation to theorize and evaluate. With the work environment becoming more complex and diverse, creative methods and approaches emerged to deal with issues that were non-existent in the past. The shift from Work–Life balance to Work–Life Integration became common place and dominant scholars such as Normala
(2010: 64) developed lifestyle as an a separate career anchor affecting consideration for work choices. Work life balance is a expanded and comprehensive program