SOC 402 Week 4 Discussion 1

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Week 4 - Discussion 1

Work/Life Balance

In preparation for this discussion, read the following articles:

·         Work, Family, and Stress (Clark, 1992)

·         Flexible Work Arrangements (Koch, 1998)

·         Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance 

·         Everybody Wins With a Healthy Work-Life Balance 

·         10 Ways to Establish a Better Work/Life Balance 

Balancing work and personal responsibilities can be a challenge. Employers are increasingly acknowledging these struggles and are instituting policies to help address them. Please address the following:

·         Suggest two policies that you think employers could institute that would best promote work-life balance among their employees. Be sure to explain why you think these policies would help.

·         Would all employees benefit from these policies or just certain types of employees? 

·         Once these policies are instituted in the workplace, what role does workplace culture play in whether or not employees take advantage of them?

·         What effect would these policies promoting work-life balance have on workplace productivity?        

Your initial post should be at least 250 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts.