Work-Life Balance
HR Training for Employee Personal Interventions

Identifies a set of personal interventions that employees commonly use to increase their work-life balance and life satisfaction.

M. Joseph Sirgy (Author), Dong-Jin Lee (Author)

9781009281799, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 26 January 2023

200 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

Based on a thorough review of the research on work-life balance, Sirgy and Lee identify a set of personal interventions that selected employees commonly use to increase their work-life balance and life satisfaction. Personal interventions of work-life balance involve five behavior-based strategies and four cognition-based strategies. The behavior-based strategies are engaging in multiple roles and domains, increasing role enrichment, engaging in behavior-based compensation, managing role conflict, and creating role balance. The cognition-based strategies are segmenting roles and domains, integrating roles and domains, engaging in value-based compensation, and applying whole-life perspective in decision-making. This volume provides HR managers and HR consultants with pedagogical material designed to help them develop in-house workshops, seminars, and curricula for their employees to improve their work-life balance by using the personal interventions described in the book.

Part I. Making the Case for Work-Life Balance: 1. Introduction
2. Why is work-life balance important?
3. How does work-life balance contribute to life satisfaction?
Part II. Behavior-Based Personal Interventions of Work-Life Balance: 4. Engaging in multiple roles and domains
5. Increasing role enrichment
6. Engaging in behavior-based compensation
7. Managing role conflict
8. Creating role balance
Part III. Cognition-Based Personal Interventions of Work-Life Balance
9. Segmenting roles and domains
10. Integrating roles and domains
11. Engaging in value-based compensation
12. Applying whole-life perspective in decision-making
Part IV. Epilogue: 13. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU], Personnel & human resources management [KJMV2], Occupational & industrial psychology [JMJ]