You are on page 1of 17

Humane Human Resource Management

Research Paper
This is the research which is carried on with the objective of understanding and knowing the WORK LIFE BALANCE of the people.

V-HAWKS international 3/31/2011

Topic
To Study the Structure of Work Life Balance of people in accordance with time spent at work.

Research Team
Mayur Shah PriyankaNaik Archana Devi ManojKulkarni VrushaliChaudhari DeepaliMhatre Rohitshringarpure Siddhi Patil RamlalBedre Abhijit Mane Anil Wagh

Firm Name
V-HAWKS international

Professor Signature (Prof. VINAY PRABHU)

ABSTRACT
Organizations and on the home front, the challenge of work/life balance is rising to the top of manyemployers' and employees' consciousness. In today's fast-paced society, human resource professionals seekoptions to positively impact the bottom line of their companies, improve employee morale, retain employeeswith valuable company knowledge, and keep pace with workplace trends. Therefore thisresearch was carried to find the average time spent by a common person at work and while travelling and returning back from work to home. This research will give the clear idea about the behavior of a person at job and his effect of job pressure on his personal life and how much their personal life is balanced with professional life.

Objective
y y y y To know the persons quality time spending on his job To Know the persons time spent at home & himself How do a person behave at home as well as work place when he has some job pressure In what proportion do a person spent his time (personal Life & Professional Life)

Hypothesis for Testing


Null Hypothesis The work life of the people is very much balanced in context to pressure at job. Alternate Hypothesis The work life of the people is somewhat balanced in context to pressure at job. Second Alternate Hypothesis The Work Life of the people is Total Imbalanced

Article
Setting healthy boundaries is essential for a healthy work life balance. That sounds true, but what does it mean? What do healthy boundaries look like, and how can you know where and how to set them? I notice a tendency among small business owners and free agents to think of boundaries as ways to keep something or someone out, as if they could achieve work life balance in this way. This emphasizes protection of their time, energy, and resources. This kind of boundary is a line in the sand. When a customer, colleague, or vendor crosses the line, an alarm goes off, signaling the business owner to say "No." Because most owners want their businesses to be accessible and to offer excellent service, they are naturally conservative in setting this sort of boundary. After all, they want to say, "Welcome" to prospective customers and partners, not "Keep Out." As a result, they set boundaries at the last possible point to keep invaders at bay. I've done this, by the way, so I know of what I speak. I know how confining this sort of boundary can be. There is no room to move. There is barely room to breathe. The longer this boundary stays in place -even if no one ever tries to cross it -- the more confined, cramped and edgy those inside the boundary will be. After working inside this boundary for a while, it is natural to become unbalanced, impatient, cranky, and even resentful. It is uncomfortable inside this boundary, and it feels as though this is the fault of those pushy customers, colleagues, and vendors out there. After all, if it weren't for THEM, you'd be out in the fresh air. But wait -- a client is not an invader. A vendor is not a spy. A business is not a castle on a hill, placed there for strategic advantage against enemy forces. Let's take a big breath and take another look at this business of setting boundaries. What if boundaries were not last-ditch protections against marauders? What if you set them so that they were lovely, sturdy fences defining a spacious and resource-rich territory in which you can do your best work and enjoy your life at the same time? What if boundaries created a pasture rather than enclosing a cell? Further, what if boundaries were designed to let in light and air? What if you could see out and others could see in? Working inside of these boundaries is quite a different experience. For one thing, there is plenty of room to move. When someone approaches your boundary, you have lots of choices about how to respond. Maintaining these healthy boundaries feels entirely different, too. With what pride of ownership and delight in the scope of our pasture we walk the fence line. How pleasing it is to oil the latches on the gates, to replace broken posts, to trim the hedges.

Check in with your boundaries this week. First, notice what constitute the fence posts and gates in your business. Are they the hours that you work? The rates you charge? The terms you offer for special services? Get familiar with the structural elements you can use to build your beautiful fence and gate. When you have identified those elements, look at where you have set them. Do your rates give you room to do your best work? Do your working arrangements give you breathing space? Examine your boundaries, and notice if they are giving you room to live and to do your best work or cramping your style. Experiment with moving your boundaries out a bit, not to keep your customers away, but to create a bigger space from which you can serve them wholeheartedly and well, maintaining a healthy work life balance.

By Molly Gordon, MCC

Research
1) How many hours a week do a person spend at work and travelling to work a 15 b 19 c 25 d 21 e 20 Grand Total 100

Total
50-59 hrs 60-69 Hrs Less than 39 hrs 40-49 Hrs More than 70 Hrs
a b c d e

Many of the person replied as they spend more than 70 hrs for Job and travelling to the job place, which make out approximately half of the week time under the travelling and working condition. As the workplace is known as second home of the employees, so that is the second places were the person spends his more of time.

2) How often do you think or worry about the work (when you are not actually at work or travelling to work)

a B C D E Grand Total

15 17 41 21 6 100

Total
Once a week Most Days Most of Time I Don't
a b

Rarely

c d e

As an answer to this question the most of the people response has given weightage to the option RARELY were they want to say that they hardly think about the work at home and while travelling, which gives an assumption that people really gives a quality timing to their family members and friends.

3) How do you feel about the amount of time you spend at work travelling to work, or thinking about the work

A B C D E Grand Total

6 18 45 7 24 100

Total
Very Unhappy OK Unhappy Happy Very Happy
a b c d e

As this graph indicates the psychological part or a satisfaction at job where most of our respondents replied that they are happy at their job, and feel safe at the place of their working. Whereas there was also response that the people are very unhappy with their job which is also a reason to create the disturbances in their life

4) How often do you take a lunch break lasting more than 30 minutes?

A B C D E Grand Total

15 27 23 11 24 100

Total
If It is Free Lunch is for Wimps Every day Most days
a

Once a week

b c d e

Under this Question we found near to equivalent answers where there were the people who take lunch on specific time (lunch break) were the people who are on the field or pursuing any high end responsibility job they use to take the lunch when they are free and as per the time limit the average minute of lunch break within the organization provided to employee was around 45 minutes.

5) Do you ever miss out on quality time with your family or your friends because of pressure of work? a b c d e Grand Total 36 26 8 15 15 100

This question was framed in order to find the effect of job pressure on an individual personal life. The most of the Respondent favoured and replied that certain time (not very often) and Most of the time (Often). So the findings were somewhere meeting our hypothesis.

6) Does work ever have a negative effect on your personal life a b c d e Grand Total 36 20 24 9 11 100

Here the large number of respondent gave the answer that only sometimes i.e. not very often they have any effect on personal due to any kind of negativity or clashes at work place. They try to maintain the balance but there are also some people who consider it only as a job and some of the respondent we even found that they don t have any kind of personal or social life.

7) When was the last time you did something for yourself rather than for someone else a b c d e Grand Total 23 25 13 33 6 100

As of this question is concerned the responses were bit dicey due to thinking of people for doing something for themselves some considered a long trip and some of them considered the normal watching the Match sitting at home. So the responses for does not remember was too high and secondly followed by this week and few week.

8) Do you ever feel anxious or upset because of what is happening at work a b c d e Grand Total 33 28 16 12 11 100

This was the question for knowing their mind position that what will be the behaviour if at any point of time they are not comfortable with the working environment either it should be related to work or colleagues or Infrastructure. If these kinds of people aren t provided with any of this thing they are very sentimental kind of person they easily get tensed and angry after which it becomes difficult to handle such kind of persons.

9) When was the last time you lost your temper at work a b c d e Grand Total 38 11 24 9 18 100

This was also the behaviour check kind of question were the parameters were what do they do when they are unsatisfied with the job condition do they lose their temper at such place. We found that most of the people don t even remember that when did they lost their temper at work place and their were also some people who are continuously angry on their work place

10) Do you feel Tired or depressed because of Work a b c d e Grand Total 36 28 23 8 6 101

This question was a bit indirect question that where do the time of the people goes after returning from their job. The parameters were whether they get depressed and tired from job if yes how often and there were people who get tired often and some of them were always tired and depressed so they were unable to give time at home or loved ones due to restlessness and seeking for it.

Testing of the Hypothesis Chi Square Test Weighted Average(A) 95 164 180 120 144 144 92 132 190 144 Average of WA(I) 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5 140.5

Question No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 X = Summation of Xi/n X = 1405/10 = 140.5 X2 =7.52

A-I (K) -45.5 23.5 39.5 -20.5 3.5 3.5 -48.5 -8.5 49.5 3.5

(K)2 2070.25 552.25 1560.25 420.25 12.25 12.25 2352.25 72.25 2450.25 12.25

(K)2 /I 14.73488 3.930605 11.10498 2.991103 0.087189 0.087189 16.74199 0.514235 17.4395 0.087189

Let the null hypothesis be H0: 02p = 02s in order to work these hypothesis we work the chi square value as under Chi square = 02s/02p (n-1)

Spearman Rank Co-releation Co-efficeint Question No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Weighted Average (I1) High End 95 164 180 120 144 144 92 132 190 144 Weighted Average(I2) Low End 26 18 6 11 15 9 6 12 9 8 R1 2 8 9 3 5 5 1 3 10 5 R2 10 9 1 6 8 4.5 1 7 4.5 3 D -8 -1 8 -3 -3 0.5 0 -4 5.5 2 D2 64 1 64 9 9 0.25 0 16 30.25 4

You might also like