The Praeger Handbookof Human Resource

Management

Volume 2

Ann GilleyJerry W. GilleyScott A. QuatroPamela Dixon

Westport, ConnecticutLondonPRAEGER

WORK.LIFE BALANCE

The attainment of worklife balance continues to be the mythical qualiry standard forindividuals in the workforce and the organizations that employ them. In the 2007 Soci-ery for Human Resource Management's (SHRM) Job Satisfaction Survey Report, "flexi-biliry to balance life and work issues" ranks as "very imporrant" for 52 percent of allrespondents and 48 percent of HR professionals. For individual workers, work-life bal-ance ranked fourth in importance, behind compensation, bene6rs, and job securiry eachof which can be argued as a contributor to achieving work-life balance. Despite rankingas "important" or "very important" in each satisfaction survey since 2002, SHRMrePorts that-the responsiveness oforganizations to these issues has only increased slighdyfrom 2006.r

Traditionally considered a "mommy issue," work-life balance is now considered astandard for any individual desiring to be successful ar work while also maintaining a

personal life separate from it, despite marital or parental status. The terms work-lifeconfict (negative interactions between roles) and work-life enrichment are often usedinterchangeably with worklife balance, but are actua.lly subsets of ir

Work-lile Balance

Vork-life balance has traditionally been defined in terms of equilibrium. A personachieved balance when equal time, energy, and enjoymenr was expended and/or gainedfrom both the work and family roles.2 Recenrly, however, this definition has beenexpanded to move beyond "equality" as the determinant of balance . In this updateddefinition, balance occurs when an individual is actively engaged in both roles, withoutsacrificing one for the benefit of the other. Balance becomes a true interaction betweenroles, rather tlan a batde between them.3

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