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Present Status of Organizational Work–Life Balance Practices in Bangladesh: Employees Expectation and Organizational Arrangements

Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research

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Title Present Status of Organizational Work–Life Balance Practices in Bangladesh: Employees Expectation and Organizational Arrangements
 
Creator Hossen, Md. Miraj; Assistant Professor, Management Studies, Jagannath University,
Dhaka 1100, Bangladesh.
PhD Student, HUST, China.
Begum, Mareum; Assistant Chief, Ministry of Planning
Zhixia, Chen; Huazhong University of Science and Technology
 
Subject Work–Life Balance (WLB), Work-Family Conflict (WFC), Flexible policy, HR productivity, Employee-friendly policies, Bangladesh.
 
Description Work-Life Balance (WLB) or Work-Family Conflict (WFC) is one of the much talked issues in the modern business arena and all the stakeholder of business world such as- employers, employees, policy makers, academicians, consumers, and the common people are concerned about it. By considering the significances of the topic the researchers have taken an initiative to examine the present status of the WLB programs/ Employee friendly policies practices in the different organizations in Bangladesh through a designed questionnaire and interviewing the supervisors and employees of some selected organizations in multiple industries. Beside this the researchers also tries to explore what are the most wanted request comes from the employees, how the organizations respond against their requests, what perceptions bear the supervisor’s and the employee’s regarding WLB and what are the barriers may organization face to implement the WLB programs. The key findings of the research point out that most of the organizations in Bangladesh don’t have any formal policy to make work-life balance but they follow some informal approaches (flexibility in time, location, & schedule, leave provisions) to facilitates the employees WLB and make them relax, confident, committed and motivated towards their works to get satisfied employees and optimum HR productivity.  The study concludes with mentioning some prospective outcomes of WLB which the organization may achieve by ensuring various WLB initiatives.
 
Publisher Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia
 
Date 2018-04-28
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Peer-reviewed Articles
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/199
10.15549/jeecar.v5i1.199
 
Source Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR); Vol 5, No 1 (2018): Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research; 16
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ieeca.org/journal/index.php/JEECAR/article/view/199/pdf
 
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