Work-Life Interface
Work-Life Interface

Author: Toyin Ajibade Adisa

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-04-09

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 3030666484

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In today’s globalised world economy, it is becoming increasingly pressing to shine a light on the interface of work and private life. In order to fully understand the issue we must take an inclusive view and not limit our understanding to Western perspectives. This contributed volume encompasses research and perspectives from the global south, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America. In doing so, this collection fills a gap in existing literature to give a broader view of the topic. Divided by geographic territory into three sections, the book combines original research, case studies and interviews as well as comparative studies. Chapters cover a wide range of emerging issues including gender and work-life balance; the role of culture; men and household work and work and family balance, to name a few. Crucially, the book offers critical perspectives and understanding of work-life interface/balance/conflict as a collection of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies that draws on qualitative and mixed methodologies. Bringing a unique contribution to the field, this book is a useful resource for students, academics, managers and policy makers.

Work-life balancing and job performance of workers in private universities in South-Western Nigeria
Work-life balancing and job performance of workers in private universities in South-Western Nigeria

Author: Ismail Olaoye

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2014-01-16

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 3656574790

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Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 4.00, Obafemi Awolowo University (Faculty of Administration), course: Business Administration, language: English, abstract: This study identified existing organizational practices and policies helping to balance work and life roles among workers and examined the factors that inhibit or enhance their adoption by workers in South-Western Nigeria. It also investigated the relationship between work-life balance and performance of workers, with a view to gaining an understanding of the range of ways by which workers in Nigeria achieve work-life balance. The study was conducted in six purposively selected private universities across the six states of South-western Nigeria, using primary and secondary data. A sample size of 540 was derived from a total of 702 using stratified sampling technique. Questionnaires were administered to all the respondents to ferret information on work-life balance and performance of workers. Secondary data from institutional records were used to augment information gathered through the questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using frequency cross-tabulation, correlation and regression analysis. Organizational policies such as the provision of crèche, staff school, staff club, recreational centres, staff canteen and annual family get together were identified as locally adopted practices by staff. The study found that the existence of these organizational policies and practices is positively correlated with available variation of such policies and practices (r=0.859; p>0.01), use or adoption of such policies and practices (r=0.898; p>0.01) and the perception of a balanced work and life interaction (r=0.184; p>0.01). Personal perception of a balanced work-life is also positively and significantly correlated with all the other factors; availability of variations (r=0.144; p>0.01) and adoption of these policies and practices (r=0.166; p>0.01). A fairly low Durbin-Watson score of 1.366 indicates that the availability of any other Work-Life balancing factor, such as flexible working, could dramatically affect the outcome of the study. It also confirmed the hypothesis that there is no relationship between adoption of work-life balance policies or practices and performance. Summarily, there is the need for the expansion of work-life balancing practices to include such practices as flexible working, tele-working, job-sharing, paternity leave, multiple tranches maternity leave and the simpler breast feeding break and that undergraduate HRM curriculum should include work-life balancing concepts to expand the scope of enquiries into their features and evolutions.

The Effect of Information Technology on Business and Marketing Intelligence Systems
The Effect of Information Technology on Business and Marketing Intelligence Systems

Author: Muhammad Alshurideh

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-03-12

Total Pages: 2536

ISBN-13: 3031123824

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Business shapes have been changed these days. Change is the main dominant fact that change the way of business operations running. Topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership, blockchain, mobile business, social media, e-learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence become essential to be considered by each institution within the technology era. This book tries to give additional views on how technologies influence business and marketing operations for insuring successful institutions survival. The world needs to develop management and intelligent business scenario plans that suite a variety of crisis appears these days. Also, business and marketing intelligence should meet government priorities in individual countries and minimise the risk of business disruptions. Business intelligence - the strategies and technology companies that use it to collect, interpret, and benefit from data - play a key role in informing company strategies, functions, and efficiency. However, being essential to the success, many companies are not taking advantage of tools that can improve their business intelligence efforts. Information technology become a core stone in business. For example, the combination of machine learning and business intelligence can have a far-reaching impact on the insights the company gets from its available data to improve productivity, quality, customer service and more. This book is important because it introduces a large number of chapters that discussed the implications of different Information technology applications in business. This book contains a set of volumes which are: 1- Social Marketing and Social Media Applications, 2- Social Marketing and Social Media Applications, 3- Business and Data Analytics, 4- Corporate governance and performance, 5- Innovation, Entrepreneurship and leadership, 6- Knowledge management, 7- Machine learning, IOT, BIG DATA, Block Chain and AI, 8- Marketing Mix, Services and Branding.

Organizational Stress Around the World
Organizational Stress Around the World

Author: Kajal A. Sharma

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-01-28

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1000317633

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Stress is defined as a feeling experienced when a person perceives that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize. It can occur due to environmental issues, such as a looming work deadline, or psychological, for example, persistent worry about familial problems. While the acute response to life-threatening circumstances can be life-saving, research reveals that the body’s stress response is largely similar when it reacts to less threatening but chronically present stressors such as work overload, deadline pressures and family conflicts. It is proffered that chronic activation of stress response in the body can lead to several pathological changes such as elevated blood pressure, clogging of blood vessels, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Organizational Stress Around the World: Research and Practice aims to present a sound theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the evolving and changing nature of stress in contemporary organizations. It presents research that expands theory and practice by addressing real-world issues, across cultures and by providing multiple perspectives on organizational stress and research relevant to different occupational settings and cultures. Personal, occupational, organizational, and societal issues relevant to stress identification along with management techniques/approach to confront stress and its associated problems at individual and organizational level are also explored. It will be of value to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in stress management research.

Leaving Science
Leaving Science

Author: Anne E. Preston

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Published: 2004-04-29

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1610444604

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The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. students pursuing advanced degrees in science and an equally dramatic increase in the number of professionals leaving scientific careers. Leaving Science provides the first significant examination of this worrisome new trend. Economist Anne E. Preston examines a wide range of important questions: Why do professionals who have invested extensive time and money on a rigorous scientific education leave the field? Where do these scientists go and what do they do? What policies might aid in retaining and improving the quality of life for science personnel? Based on data from a large national survey of nearly 1,700 people who received university degrees in the natural sciences or engineering between 1965 and 1990 and a subsequent in-depth follow-up survey, Leaving Science provides a comprehensive portrait of the career trajectories of men and women who have earned science degrees. Alarmingly, by the end of the follow-up survey, only 51 percent of the original respondents were still working in science. During this time, federal funding for scientific research decreased dramatically relative to private funding. Consequently, the direction of scientific research has increasingly been dictated by market forces, and many scientists have left academic research for income and opportunity in business and industry. Preston identifies the main reasons for people leaving scientific careers as dissatisfaction with compensation and career advancement, difficulties balancing family and career responsibilities, and changing professional interests. Highlighting the difference between male and female exit patterns, Preston shows that most men left because they found scientific salaries low relative to perceived alternatives in other fields, while most women left scientific careers in response to feelings of alienation due to lack of career guidance, difficulty relating to their work, and insufficient time for their family obligations. Leaving Science contains a unique blend of rigorous statistical analysis with voices of individual scientists, ensuring a rich and detailed understanding of an issue with profound consequences for the nation's future. A better understanding of why professionals leave science can help lead to changes in scientific education and occupations and make the scientific workplace more attractive and hospitable to career men and women.

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics (BAFE 2023)
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics (BAFE 2023)

Author: Yuen Onn Choong

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-30

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 9464633425

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This is an open access book. The Faculty of Business and Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) is pleased to organize the 11th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance, and Economics (BAFE 2023) on 25th October 2023 in hybrid mode via Online meeting with Zoom platform and physical mode at UTAR Kampar Campus. This conference aims to bring together researchers to present up-to-date works that contribute to new theoretical, methodological and empirical knowledge.

Sustainable Human Resource Management
Sustainable Human Resource Management

Author: Sita Vanka

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-08-13

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9811556563

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This book provides a multi-stakeholder perspective on sustainable HRM for the policymakers, managers and academics, addressing issues, approaches, research studies/frameworks and emerging patterns relating to the subject. It discusses various aspects of sustainability, such as making HR more responsible for ensuring sustainability focusing on the triple bottom line, characteristics of sustainable HRM, psychological contracts, emotional intelligence, and psychological capital. The book also explores organizational citizenship behavior, employment relations, employee engagement, sustainable leadership, disruptive HR practices, sustaining employee motivation, educational sustainability, sustainable career management, sustainable environment, employer and employee branding, sustainable organizations, organization culture, training for sustainability, sustainable employee performance, business sustainability and sustainable employability. It provides an update on the concept, processes, issues and emerging paradigms from multidimensional and cross-country perspectives to showcase sustainable HR practices, and appeals to the academics, practitioners and policymakers in the area of HRM.

Working Women in the Sandwich Generation
Working Women in the Sandwich Generation

Author: Mervi Rajahonka

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-02-21

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1802625038

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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation helps present a clearer view of how supervisors and policy makers can support Sandwich Generation women who care for both children and the elderly, with lessons for both now and in the future.

Ask a Manager
Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together