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Topic 3. Work life balance Flashcards

1
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Explain why in 2001 the quality of work life got worse.

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Because:

  • Increased work intensification and pressure
  • Perceived need to slow down to have more time for persronal interests, environment and family.
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In the 1990’s downshifting appeared. What is downshifting?

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Downshifting is swapping a life of total commitment to work and high rewards for less demanding, part-time work or self-employment.

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True or false: there are increasing numbers of employed women.

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True.

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4
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What are the wishes in the ageing workforce?

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  • Wishes to work fewer hours or different shift patterns

- Wishes to combine easily work with family, other commitments and any healthy problems.

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True or false: The ageing population. Employees have caring responsibilities, but only for their children.

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False. They have caring responsibilities for their children AND elderly parents.

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Employers are forced to attract and retain talented workers. But how?

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By:

  • Introducing work-life balance policies
  • communicating the image of a progressive organisation
  • focussing on recruitment and retention
  • by encouraging work-life balancec initiatives.
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Wat are the drivers for work-ife balance?

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  • The demographic factors
  • The 24/7 society
  • Work intensification
  • Social responsibility of the organisation.
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24/7 society. What does this mean?

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The traditional working hours from 9:00 to 17:00. These are not always respected.

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True or false: work intensivation is the cause of greater levels of stress. Anxiety, work overload, loss of control, pressure, long hours and insufficient personal time.

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True.

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10
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What is the contra reaction of work intensification?

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Change of values.

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Who are willing to sacrifice their personal lives for total commitment to work? Especially younger workers, average workers or old workers?

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Especially younger workers.

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True or false: Social responsibility of the organisation. Employers have a dury of care and they have to promote a healthy working environment.

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True.

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13
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To respond to family responsibilities, legal regulations have been introduced since several years. Which regulations?

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  • Ante-natal care
  • Maternity leave
  • Maternity pay
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What is ante-natal care?

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Pregnant employees have the right to attend medical appointments without losing any pay.

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What is maternity leave?

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Women have the right to take time off before, during and after their baby is born.

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What is maternity pay?

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Employees will receive at least 75% of their salary during maternity leave. (paid by the mutual health insurance company)

17
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To respond to family responsibilities, legal regulations have been introduced since several years. Which?

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  • Parental, paternity and adoption leave.
  • Time off for family members.
  • The right to reques flexible working.
18
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What is parental, paternity and adoption leave?

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Both parents have the right to take up unpaid leave, also in case of an adoption.

19
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What does time off for family members mean?

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The right to take time off for urgent family reasons, such as falling ill, giving birth or being injured.

20
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What is the right to request flexible working?

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The right is only to make a request, which means that the request can be turned down in some occasions.

21
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True or false: family-friendly practices are very costly and make organisations internationally less competitive.

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True

22
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True or false: an argument against the family-friendly practices is that it is unfair for the employees who don’t have families.

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True

23
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Which one is no argument in favour of the family-friendly practices. The combination of working with family responsibilities.
Encouragement of single mothers to work.
Father doesn’t ake a greater share of domestic responsibilities.
Needed skills and experience at the disposal of a tight labour market.

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Father do take a greater share of domestic responsibilities.

24
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True or false: while legislation mainly addresses to parents, there is a strong demand for flexible work options for some employees.

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False. For ALL employees.

25
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Name the three different types of work flexibility

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  • The numbers of hours worked
  • When these hours are worked
  • Where these hours are worked
26
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True or false: the meaning of WLB depends on the perosn and at present flexible options are mostly taken by men.

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False. Present flexible options are mostly taken by women.

27
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True or false: part-time work is always recognized as a flexible option.

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False. Part-time work remains the most popular option, but it is so common that it is not always recognised as a flexible option.

28
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Page 14 & 15 tabel!

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Don’t forget

29
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Name 5 benefits of work-life balance.

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  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Raise of morale
  • Increased job satisfaction
  • Increases job motivation
  • Positive impact on retention and recruitment.
  • Increased job performance by working more effectively as employees are less tired.
  • Sabbaticals (space and time to develop in other ways & fresh ideas into the workplace)
30
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Name the four problems with work-life balance.

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  1. The take-up gap
  2. The manager’s role in implementing WLB
  3. Limits on access
  4. Lack of strategic approach

(explanation in the sheets)

31
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The perception that WLB is for a particular group, that is women with children, creates two problems. Which?

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  1. These women are seen as employees not interested in a real career which limits their career development.
  2. They can be aliented from the rest of the workforce who are not allowed to these special privileges.
32
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What are the two reasons of the take-up gap?

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  1. It costs the organisation a lot of money

2. Some people are financially committed to full-time hours.

33
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True or false: the role of the manager in implementing WLB can disturb the introduction and implementation.

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True

34
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How can manager’s disturb the introduction and implementation of WLB?

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– They think flexible working damages the performance targets of
the team
– They think flexible working for some means higher workloads for others
– Pressure on them to be fair; they have to decide who will be
allowed to work flexible.

35
Q

Increasing the independency of employees so that they can make autonomous decisions without consulting. Which concept is this?

A

Empowerment.

36
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True or false: the most common mistake in WLB is transforming full-time work into part-time work without thinking about the long-term objectives, the nature of the job and the workload in general.

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Very true

37
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True or false: part-time workers always feel satisfied with their job.

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False. Part-time workers can have the impression doing full-time job in part-time hours and with a part-time staff.

HRM Janneke (5 decks)

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