...Description I am thirty three years old and recently decided to advance my career opportunities by taking online college courses. At that time I never thought that I would find myself in the roles of a mom to a newborn baby boy, a wife of an active duty service member, and a student. At first, I found it most discouraging trying to find the time to balance college classes with all of the activities in my daily life, as being married to a soldier of the United States Army means being a single mother, currently living in a foreign country, at times of deployment. Several years have passed since I graduated high school and educational advancement was not my first priority. At that time, I had decided to join the United States Armed Forces and serve my country while stationed in Europe. Although I do not regret that decision, I do however regret not attending college directly after high school and having the option to join the service as a commissioned officer. I now decided that going back to school to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Human Recourses Management at Penn Foster College would offer many career opportunities and set an example for my son. Taking online courses has proven to be more difficult than I thought. With my 9 week old son needing my attention most of the day, my husband working extended hours and housework piling up, I do not have the luxury to always have a set schedule allowing me to attend traditional college classes on a campus and in class rooms. My husband...
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...Balancing Work and Personal Life [Author’s Name] [Institute] [Date] Introduction In many homes and organizations, the challenge of balancing work and personal life is rising among employees and employers. Today’s society is fast-paced. People are challenged with multiple demands at the workplace and attending to their personal lives without compromising their personal life duties and work duties. This essay offers some insight on possible solutions to balancing work and personal life. Challenges and Solutions Balancing work and personal life is a dominant issue in today’s society, which is filled with conflicting commitments and responsibilities. The key factors that contribute to the challenge of balancing work and personal life are competition and interest in personal values. Existing research suggests that a conflict between family and work has consequences that can affect the career attainment and the quality of a family life for both women and men (Lockwood, 2003, p. 4). For instance, women experience the challenge of either having an active career or marriage and children, and men usually trade off career and personal values. Such challenges often lead to poor employee productivity, task avoidance, drug abuse, and marital problems. Therefore, there is need to balance work and personal life. A balance between work and personal life can motivate people at the workplace and foster better personal lives. Balancing work and personal life can be achieved through taking...
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...The challenges students have balancing family, work and school. Hollywood has built an image that college students are all 18 year old kids, who are getting another four year free ride from their parents, without having to live at home. In the real world many college students are adults and have their own family and expenses. College students struggle in their everyday life balancing time for family, friends and jobs. Finding the time and energy to study is probably the most difficult struggle students have while in college and a common reason why students drop out. The challenges students have balancing time for their families are cooking, cleaning, and spending time with their children and husband. Cooking for a family requires time whether it is Breakfast, lunch or dinner. Students may feel that they just do not have the time to cook dinner for their family, instead they may decide to buy fast food because it is quick and convenient, which is a poor choice because it leads to unhealthy lifestyle. Poor eating habits cause problems physically and mentally. Cleaning after a family is a big job and requires time and energy that one simply does not have after working an eight hour shift. Spending time with family could be limited and may cause conflict between married couples. Students with children unintentionally neglect their responsibilities as a parents which are playing with their kids, driving them to school or games, attending birthday parties or important events...
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...Canadian Work, Life Balance The role of work has been changing over the last few years due to economic, cultural and social conditions. In the past years, work was considered as a means of providing the necessities of life for survival. Today, work is still a necessity but there needs to be balance for our personal satisfaction. In order to attain such personal and professional goal, programs and policies have been implemented to facilitate the concept of work-life balance. Work-life balance has been defined by the Workplace Mental Health Promotion as: Work-life balance is a state of well-being that a person can reach or can set as a goal in order to allow them to manage effectively multiple responsibilities at work, at home and in their community. Work-life balance is different for everyone and it supports physical, emotional, family and community health and does so without grief, stress or negative impact (Workplace Mental Health Promotion, 2010). The issue of work-life balance has been discussed for many years by companies and strategists. All see the benefits of a work-life balance on their employees’ productivity and morale, thus see more happy healthy workers. According to the survey conducted by Nanos on “A snap-shot on work balance, Happiness and stress in Canada”, approximately 89 percent of Canadians are happy, depending on where one lives in Canada. 54 percentage of Quebec residents are most likely to be happy, while 39 percentage of British Columbians...
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...Work Cells * An arrangement of machines and personnel that focuses on making a single product or family of related products. * Are configured as product designs change or volume fluctuates. * First presented by R. E. Flanders in 1925. Advantages of Work Cells (1) Reduced work-in-process inventory (2) Less floor space (3) Reduced raw material and finished goods inventories (4) Reduced direct labor costs (5) Heightened sense of employee participation (6) Increased equipment and machinery utilization (7) Reduced investment in machinery and equipment Requirements of Work Cells * Identification of families of products, often through the use of group technology codes or equivalents. * A high level of training, flexibility and empowerment of employees. * Being self-contained, with its own equipment and resources. * Test (poka-yoke) at each station in the cell. Advantages of Work Cells over Assembly Lines and Process Facilities (1) Because tasks are grouped, inspection is often immediate (2) Fewer workers are needed (3) Workers can reach more of the work area (4) The work area can be more efficiently balanced (5) Communication is enhanced Figure 9.10 Improving layouts by moving to the work cell concept. (a) Current layout – workers in small closed areas. Improved layout – cross-trained workers can assist each other. May be able to add a third worker as added output is needed...
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...Family & Work- The Balance Within Sociology 100 The article that I have chosen for my assignment is a scholarly journal about “Balancing Work and Family”. This article is a scholarly journal based upon existing research. This article expanded on research about to balance work and family. It explained the roles of men and women within the household and the family. The man’s role in the family was the “bread-winner and King of the Castle”. This means he was head of the household. He was expected to provide for his family financially as well as make the big decisions. The women played a different role. The woman’s role was to “take care of home”. This role was just as important within the home. The women were expected to be more involved with the care of the children as well as the upkeep of the home. These roles may have added a great amount of stress on everyone in the family. This research was ideal for men and women years ago, but society has changed. Men and women play different roles within the family now. Based on the article, in 2008 only a few married women stayed at home and didn’t work. This is a drastic change from hundreds of years ago. Women did not need to balance work and home because it was the man’s role to provide for his family. And as society changed, women do more outside the home. Years ago, a family could manage and maintain on a single income. In today’s society, it is hard. In order to manage and maintain it is...
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...Family and career There are so many things that matter in people’s life, but the most important ones are family and career. People always have a hard time to balance between each one. It’s hard to build a family relationship and also work on having a good education and career. Balancing between both will be a struggle for some people. I want my life to be fair and balanced between my family and career. I’m single right now but for sure I’m planning on getting married in a couple of years and having kids in the future, I’m planning on having two to three kids maximum so I can provide them with a good life whether if its education wise, money wise, or family wise. In addition I want to balance between my family and give them the time they need and my career life to be a good mom who’s fair between her being a good mom and a successful women in her career. I believe that the mindset corporate America conducive to the type of work and family because most jobs have flexible schedules. Also they have holidays off, days off some of them have their weekends off let’s not forget the vacations that most jobs have for their employee for a week or two that are already paid for. However, all this depends on what kind of a job the person is having. Let’s say doctors most likely will not be able to spend a lot of time with their families as much as a business manager who could go in anytime and leave anytime. The United States should assist mothers and fathers during the mother’s...
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...Business Communication Trends Paper Introduction To Business Communication March-10, 2011 Mr. Curt Crandall Business Communication Trends Paper Business communication is the communication between people in an organization, or a company for the purpose to carry out business activities. The two methods of communication are verbal communication and nonverbal communication. Verbal communication consists of face-to-face, by phone, by emails, reports, text messaging, and more. Nonverbal communication consists of pictures, computer graphics and more. The role that communication plays in my day-to-day activities at work is very important. As a Union Carpenter communication is the key to starting the job and finishing the job correctly. The Foreman on the jobsite yells out many different measurements all day long. Now i either have to remember these measurements by heart or write these measures down on what ever materials are close at the time. If our measurements does not match up, the project we are working on at that time will taking longer to finish or take time to repair it. Either way we are loosing time and money on errors that we can not afford to lose. I also have to communicate with city inspectors to inspect different aspects of the project and set up times to have the city inspector come out to inspect. I have to communicate with superintendants to exchange blueprints and other add-ons to the project. I have to communicate with excavators to know when...
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...complete, and correct, save the receiver’s time and build goodwill. Business and administrative communication is constantly evolving alongside with the technology advancements and companies had focused on the benefit of improving communication from micro level of individual employee to macro of the whole company. There are ten business trends play an important role in business communication today and they are Technology changes, including information overload and data security versus privacy; a focus on quality and customer’ needs; entrepreneurship; teamwork; diversity; globalization and outsourcing; legal and ethical concerns; balancing work and family; job flexibility; and the rapid rate of change (Locker & Kienzler, 2008). The current business trends that I have noticed through my career are Technology, job flexibility, and balancing work and family. Technology plays a huge role in all my workplaces. I often engage in communication both internally and externally with clients and coworkers in an online remote access setting via the Worldwide Web and e-mails. When communicating in an online setting, writing skills of the individual are often challenging as the correct tone is very important to convey a professional yet...
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...Family is where we all belong to and from where our identity comes from. And a career is an individual's journey through learning, work and other aspects of life. Family and career both of them are important for our life. They have to co-exist, that makes a healthy balanced life. Managing both family and career is a responsibility and opportunity that assume us for the sake of furthering our life. Beth Sawi mentioned about a study (Marks, et al, 2001) 60 percent of working parents feel considerable conflict between work responsibilities and time spent at home and a recent survey by the Pew Research Center found the majority of full-time working moms would like to trade in their current situation for a part-time position. In Bangladeshi perspective, it is very difficult to balance between family and career. Many people may find it very difficult to manage their career and family life. The needs of their families are important but at the same time, career is important in order to survive. These duties are an important obligation in life but we must take control of it so that we are managing our time in our careers and making sure that our families are satisfied. Bangladesh was the first country in South Asia to achieve gender-parity in primary education. Achieving this milestone is a result of effective public policy, resource allocation and strong commitment from public and non-government sectors. For example, Female enrolment in primary schools is now 51% and in secondary schools...
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...Balancing Work and Family Shequetta Green PSYCH/704 September 17, 2012 Dr. Elizabeth DiBernardo Balancing Work and Family Balancing work and family life is a challenge if one gives much effort in both areas. Everyone is not able to handle both a hectic work and family life as it does not seem normal (Rupert, Stevanovic, Hartman, Bryant, & Miller, 2012). Sometimes one needs assistance and advice on how to successfully have both areas of life (Voydanoff, 2005). Kathy Kudler is a business owner and single mother so she has little downtime whether she is at work or home. Other factors of her life, such as her upcoming nuptials and ill mother also affect her ability to find a balance between home life and work. Kathy may be definitely suffering from what is known as burnout. Burnout is a condition in which stress levels at work affect home life (Salmela-Aro, Tynkkynen, & Vuori, 2011). If Kathy Kudler cannot find an effective balance both areas of her life could suffer. The purpose of this paper is to create an outline of how and Industrial/Organizational Psychologist may intervene with the issues Kathy Kudler is currently facing. The paper will also provide three work and family interventions to her. Finally, the paper will show the pros and cons of each of the three work and family intervention suggestions. Having two children at home is a demanding task but Kathy Kudler feels as though she does not give this job her full attention...
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...your life in terms of subjective well-being, diversity, contexts, and / or thinking critically. 2. balancing your priorities, specifically with home, work, school, recreation, and / or family. 3. developing your identity, specifically self-esteem, self-concept, ethnicity, and / or gender. 4. coping with stress, specifically social support, multiple coping strategies, and / or self-control. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements: • Be typed, double-spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; Since the only resources you will be using for this assignment are the article and your textbook, you need not include a reference page. Check with your professor for any additional instructions. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required assignment page length. PSY 100 WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 1 STR LATEST PSY 100 Week 4 Assignment 1 – Personal Reflection Journal Entry – STR Latest In this assignment, you will review your current level of adjustment. Write a one to two (1-2) page paper in which you: 1. Reflect on how well you are: 1. adjusting to your life in terms of subjective well-being, diversity, contexts, and / or thinking critically. 2. balancing your priorities, specifically with home, work, school,...
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...Balancing Act Now days, most of us are struggling with one common problem that is STRESS. Irrespective of level, we are facing it in little of bigger manner. These stress resulted in problem at office as well as at home front. Making e balance between work and personal life is become very difficult today. In today’s fast moving world, priorities of personal and professional life are continuously shifting at time interval; hence it’s becomes necessary to balance this two. Globalization has changed the total scenario, the working condition as well as total environment has changed. If you recall you own working condition and environment surrounding you before 3-4 years, there is a visible difference today. Taking equal responsibilities family more and more women are joining either a job or doing something at home to earn for the family to improve standard of living and for better education of their kids. Many of us may have experienced the instances when we became late or even absent in Parent-Teacher meeting arranged at school, due to some urgent job or meeting or even due to your engagement in some training. Many of us are going late at home to complete the target given by bosses. Now, if you see other way around, you may get late sometimes even for office due to some family matters. These types of situations happen with most of us and that’s really gives stress. Your problem at office or very much busy work schedule develops stress in you and those directly affects and...
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...Family and Personal Issues Damaryes Villanueva University of Phoenix Business Management MGT/216 Dr Tucker-Johnson Family and Personal Issues This paper is written to view balancing family and personal issues while working for an organization. Despite of what one personal life entails life is demanding and everyone needs to know or learn how to balance one’s work, family and, personal life. There will always be pressure in the workplace regardless of one’s status, single or a family the job will somehow, slip into one’s personal life or one’s personal life will slip into work, it inevitable. The key is balancing both equally important lives. In the year 2000 it was reported that 77 percent of women were part of the workforce. It’s fair to say that mothers are a part and continue to be a part of this workforce. The jobs today are not limited to secretarial work in an office or the usual nine to five positions. These are positions that in high demand such as project managers, financial analyst, managers and more (Porter, 2006). Today’s employers demand more time, availability, flexibility to fulfill a full-time position. This can be a struggle for some employees with families, which may include infants, toddlers, teens, daycare, after-school activities, preparation for events and conferences. Some of these may include the occasional call from the school nurse, asking one to pick up a child because to illness or minor injury. Corporations are becoming more family...
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...For some people, distance learning is the only choice they have to further their education. At the same time, it is the most appropriate choice for people who have work and family responsibilities to juggle with. However, it is a task that is difficult to accomplish, unless they work out a way to balance their everyday activities along with studies. I have learned that, in order to balance my family life, work life, and progress with my education, all at the same time, I have to be super organized, realistic with my goals and ask for help when I need it. Organization is the first step and the foundation for successfully balancing studies with my other responsibilities in life. I have learned that for each minute of time spent organizing, I can earn a great deal of time. So, every night, before I go to bed, I write down two lists. One that lists the urgent tasks, that have immediate deadlines, that need to be accomplished the next day, and the other with important tasks that, in the event that I’m super busy, can wait to be accomplished a day or two later. On the urgent task list, I include things such as work deadlines, doctor appointments, workout timings, teacher meetings, sports for kids, and of course, pending college assignments. On the important task list, I include things such as deliveries for my honey selling business, mail pick-ups at the post office, groceries, and car washes or oil changes. Then, I update my Google calendar, with both lists, which I have synchronized...
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