The issue-Quality of Work Life is a new level of reasoning in Management, it should

be noted however that it has always been with us.

Firstly there are two words involved here-Work and Life, by implication an
employee has a job (work) and certainly has a life- the bottomline is how does he
combine the two successfully?

In more advanced and structured Corporate environments employees are seriously

encouraged to balance these two aspects intelligently.

For instance work resumes at 8'o clock an employee reports promptly, work closes
at 5'o clock and he clocks-out accordingly, this is based on the fact that all jobs
assigned were dutifully accomplished.

The above scenerio created allows employee time for other things personal to him-
eg sports & general recreation, visiting, attending social functions that falls on
weekdays etc

However in an extreme situation some employers of labour would expect you to

work late -8'00 pm having resumed at 8'00am and even call you on a weekend and
public holiday to be at work.

The side effect of this new scenerio is that such employee would not have time for
himself talkless of a third party-he can not recreate, socialize, nor even register for
a part-time executive programme and in some extreme case/s leads to the collapse
of relationships, marriage in particular.

In the light of the above some sincere and pragmatic corporate managements
around the world have institutionalised the flexible working hours to suit some
perculiar work-life, eg offshore engineers, medical doctors/related, and lately
corporations.
This is a situation (for corporations) whereby employees can resume late or take a
few hours off during the week but have to makeup for such sometimes in future.

The essence of all these is for the employee to understand the need to balance his
work/career and life, one should not suffer or neglected for the other but most
essential compliment each other.

Thanks.
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