Work Life Balance

Perspectives on the Study of Work-Life Balance
A Discussion Paper prep bed for the
2001 ENOP Symposium, Paris, March 29-31.
by
David E Guest
The Management Centre
Kings College, London
Introduction
The aim of this background paper is to introduce the topic of work-life proportionality, to explain wherefore it is of coeval interest, to identify some of the key conceptual and experimental issues and to open up the topic for debate. It is not intended as a comprehensive review of the literature.
Why the interest?
Work-life sense of equilibrium has always been a concern of those interested in the property of working life and its relation to broader quality of life. In the aboriginal days of the industrial revolution in Europe (and now in some parts of the developing world) a particular concern was with the impact of child labour. In times of ceding back and again today in parts of Europe, the concern is with neediness of employment and its consequences, graphically illustrated in the early work by Jahoda (1992) at Marienthal and studied in many contexts up to the reach day. Yet work-life balance has come to the fore in contemporary debates largely because in affluent societies the excessive demands of work are perceived to present a distinctive issue that call for to be addressed.




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