Balance of Work Life and Home Life
A lot of my reading is about Leadership and Management topics. I came across this great post by Jim Stroup of the Managing Leadership blog called Good Grief. Jim focuses on the impact to a team or organization when a manager focuses solely on the workplace and does not take into consideration a balanced work life and home life.
Here is a sample .....
Many managers would prefer being able to devote their full attention to the administration of non-human assets and factors in their businesses. These are easier to understand and manipulate, and they usually don't give you grief about it. But the fact is, most of the grief "human assets" give their managers is of the latter's own making.
As short while ago, Inc.com reported the results of a study which showed that "bad behavior" is caused by problems with work-life balance issues, and is not prevented by standard disciplinary measures. To be honest, such results suggest errors in research design and data interpretation. One should be cautious about taking at face value a group's attribution of its own bad behavior to the alleged shortcomings of another group (management) or of policy.
Nevertheless, the study does raise questions about the influence of managerial action or policy on staff morale and productivity. While I disagree that bad behavior is caused - or averted - by specific workplace policies, productivity and morale can be.
Of the various factors related to managing people, the one this subject touches on is the managerial duty to remove impediments to performance. It is not necessarily a manager's role to provide employees a balanced life, but it is an obligation to remove barriers - including those that are related to work-life balance issues - to peak employee performance.
To read the entire post follow this link .....
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