Work-life balance: promises made and promises kept

We present evidence on the association between the management practices conventionally identified with high performance workplaces (HPWs) and measures of work-life balance. Our framework identifies those practices associated with workers reporting that their employer makes work-life balance commitme...

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Published in:International journal of human resource management 2010-09, Vol.21 (11), p.1976-1995
Main Authors: Heywood, John S., Siebert, W.S., Wei, Xiangdong
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Commitments
Correlation analysis
Employees
Employers
high performance workplaces
Human resource management
Human resources
Management
motivation
Scheduling
Studies
work incentives
Work life balance
Work place
Workers
Working conditions
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Summary:We present evidence on the association between the management practices conventionally identified with high performance workplaces (HPWs) and measures of work-life balance. Our framework identifies those practices associated with workers reporting that their employer makes work-life balance commitments, and separately identifies those practices associated with workers reporting that their employer keeps the commitments they make. Our results do not support a role for HPWs in either the making or the keeping of work-life balance commitments. Rather, they suggest that where workers are interdependent - as in team production - the resulting inflexibility of time scheduling drives down work-life balance commitments.
ISSN:0958-5192
1466-4399
DOI:10.1080/09585192.2010.505098