Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance is

• An organizational concept that judges an employee's ability to juggle work and a family.

• An organizational concept that empowers employees to work from home twice a week

• An organizational concept that empowers employees to split time and energy between work and other important areas of their life successfully

• An organizational concept that recently came into popularity due to the growth in technology.

Businesses offer work-life balance programs in order to _____

• increase revenues.

• reduce turnover.

• increase stock prices.

• reduce costs.

Chronic exhaustion from persistent workload, decreased motivation, and apathy toward work is called_____

• Burnout

• Anger

• Trigger

• All of these

Getting employees to continue working for the same company is called_____

• Employee attrition

• Employee retention

• Employee recruitment

• All of these

Causes of burnout can include which of the following?

• Meaningful work

• Unresolved personal conflicts

• Trust in the organization

• Lack of a desire to work

Why are organisations expressing an increasing interest in work-life balance?

• Changing labour demographics

• Changing consumer demographics

• Changing technology

• Changing Government legislation

Which of these is not a work-life balance practice?

• Condensed working hours

• Homeworking

• Part-time working

• Overtime

Need for work life balance

• Growing stress

• Growing Physical problems due to age

• Relational problems at home as well as workplace

• All of these

A good work–life balance is usually considered to be an example of:

• Intrinsic reward

• Extrinsic reward

• Performance-related reward

• Compensation

Which of these is a barrier to the implementation of homeworking (WFH)?

• Employees do not want to work from home

• Management fear homeworkers may be ‘slackers’

• Employees perform best in an office environment

  homeworking

• Technology has not progressed enough to allow homeworking