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Chapter 8 - Creating Role Balance

from Part II - Behavior-Based Personal Interventions of Work-Life Balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

M. Joseph Sirgy  and
Dong-Jin Lee
M. Joseph Sirgy
Affiliation:
Virginia Tech
Dong-Jin Lee
Affiliation:
Yonsei University
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Summary

In this chapter we discuss another behavior-based personal intervention, namely role balance. Role balance involves engaging in balanced activities— balanced between maintenance activities (those designed to maintain role functioning and meet basic needs) and flourishing activities (those designed to allow the individual to meet growth needs). Specifically, we describe some maintenance and flourishing activities that are essential to creating role balance in work life and nonwork domains (e.g., family life, health and safety, love life, financial life, social life, leisure life, and cultural life). We then discuss how instructors can implement the role balance principle in workshops designed to train employees how to increase work-life balance.

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role balancemaintenance activitiesflourishing activitieswork-life balancelife satisfactiontraining for work-life balancework lifenonwork lifefamily life
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Work-Life Balance
HR Training for Employee Personal Interventions
 , pp. 88 - 100
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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