Work and Family Life Balance and Career Development of women employees
As most of the women have to perform dual roles in family and work place, due to several reasons they are unable to fulfill their responsibilities properly. This has affected to their career development ultimately. Work-life balance has always been a concern of those interested in the quality of working life and its relation to broader quality of life.
Greenhaus and Beutel (l985), wrote one of the earliest theoretical articles on work-family conflict. They defined work-family conflict as a type of inter-role conflict where work and family roles are incompatible and seen as competing for an individual’s time, energy, and behaviors on and off the job. Career development of men and women was equally affected by family to work conflict. Understanding the type, direction, and source of the conflict can help organizations and managers design appropriate workplace interventions to support work-family balance (Buddapriya, 2009).
The main differentiating supporting factor for professional women is the support and involvement of their husbands with regards to both their careers and the family and homemaking. Following external variables are supportive for working women
· Societal views and attitudes - The views
and attitudes of society regarding the role of women are important in this
discussion.
· Support structures - The existence and
extent of support structures are instrumental in the experience of
life-balance.
· Organizational values and support
Career Development
The term career means the unfolding sequence of a person’s work experiences over time. When understanding career development, it can be break down in to two as career management and career planning.
· Career management - Career management can be defined as a self-monitored life long process of getting to choose your goals, setting them and formulating strategies to achieve them.
· Career Planning -This aims at matching the career goals of an individual with the available opportunities.
From organization’s point of view, career development means matching the career goals of the employees with the present and future needs and goals of the organization.
How to manage Work and Family Life Balance and Career Development of women employees
· Training and Development Programs - Organization`s must help to avoid the individual barriers such as lack of confidence etc. by arranging the training and development programs.
· Time management was the biggest challenge - To avoid these organizations can help with the female workers by offering day care centers, giving flexible work hours.
· Fair treatments - Management should handle the employee promotion decisions fairly. It is better to provide same rights and responsibilities to male and female within the organization as such same promotion practices, salary scales according to the experience and knowledge level.
· Cultural awareness - Organization should help to female workers by examining the organizational informal culture, traditions and norms that may work against women and conducting awareness program to bring to an end of those.
A conclusion can be drawn that an organization culture which supports balanced life-styles and provides support and flexibility through human resource policies and practices will better enable female employees to experience life-balance.
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Buddapriya, S. (2009). Work-Family challenges & their imporatance on career decisions. India.
Greenhaus,
J., & Beutell, N. (1985). Sources of conflict between work and family
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Very valuable topic to discuss since nowadays most women became working mothers. Therefore they have to work around 8 hours at the office and another considerable period with housework and child care. Therefore they need the support of every family member to balance these two successfully. All the best.
ReplyDeleteWork-life balance refers to maintaining a balance between fulfilling roles and responsibilities at work and at home. The balance between work and life is one of the most difficult problems facing female employees in the 21st century. Timely topic and well done.
ReplyDeleteAs explained, having a healthy work-life balance is very important for employee performance. It means that employees will be happier when they come to work. This, in turn, helps reduce stress and absenteeism.
ReplyDeleteIt is revealed that, a considerable amount of females leave their jobs, when they find it difficult to balance personal life with the work life. As you have discussed above, female employees face various challenges when struggling to find balance between work and personal life. When they are trying to balance their work-life, female employees feel the pressure from the workplace as well as from their families. They face more challenges when catering the needs of their children. This is a timely issue which should be paid more attention. All the best.
ReplyDeleteEmployee performance depends on having a healthy work-life balance. It means that when employees get at work, they will be happier. As a result, stress is reduced and performance will be enhanced
ReplyDeleteAs discussed above, When it comes to striking a work-life balance, female professionals confront a variety of difficulties. Female professionals are under pressure from both the workplace and their families when attempting to manage their job and personal lives.Timely topic and all the best Amila
ReplyDeleteSince the majority of women are now working mothers, this is an important subject to debate.
ReplyDeleteAs a result, parents must work for around 8 hours in the office and devote a significant amount of time to housework and child care.
To effectively balance these two, they will require the help of every family member.
Best wishes.
Every woman should choose a goal and flourish in both her work and her family in order to accomplish WLB.
ReplyDeletePlanning, organizing, and setting limits are some of the tactics and abilities that can be utilized at home and at work to achieve a rewarding and gratifying well-balanced existence, both professionally and personally.
To meet the demands of the family, female employees should provide both physical and financial care. Work on achieving corporate goals as well as personal growth in order to meet career requirements. In order to address the difficulties of women's work-life balance in today's corporate environment, organizations must implement human resource strategies and policies.
Being a working woman, this is an important article for me .Good job Amila.
Due to the heavy work load in today's setting and competitive economy, work-life balance is critical for everyone of us and specially for women employees are having great impact. Managing work and personal life is difficult, but it may be made easier in a variety of ways by incorporating the organization's HR staff, as discussed in this article. Excellent work, Amila.
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