Описание: A. Introductory Chapters
1. Overview of the Book and Book Chapters
This chapter will develop the common thread across the five main sub-headings and how they jointly contribute to the multidimensional and multifunctional views advocated in the book. Thereafter, the chapter will give an overview of all the 14 chapters in the book.
2. Work-Life Integration: Overview and Trends
The chapter will begin by stating the meaning of the concepts: work-life conflict, life-work conflict and work-life integration and will present some research on their negative effects on individual and organizational productivity. It will trace the research journey on WLI bringing out the movement from scarcity model that leads to conflicts, to the positive psychology model which identifies mutual beneficial effects of involvement in multiple roles. It will present work-life integration as a way to ameliorate the negative effects of involvement in multiple roles and highlight sources of the integration. The chapter will also contribute to the debate of any difference and similarity between work-life balance and work-life integration which has never been resolved (Alton, 2018; Dresdale, 2016; Harrington & Ladge, 2009). It will review the research on WLI with the view to identifying the gap which the current book is to fill. It will justify the multidimensional approach to achieving WLI advocated in the book and show that past books and studies have neglected this.
B. Organizational Perspectives
3. Organizational Production Process and Work-Life Integration
Structural and production process issues have not been given much attention in the analysis of WLI in the past (Lambert et al., 2002). Hence, in this chapter, discussions will focus on the concept of productivity process as an integral aspect of work-life integration; what constitutes the elements of productivity at individual and organizational levels. Inter alia, the relationship that subsists between productivity process and work-life integration will be explored as a basis for a creative and integrated process flow both for individuals and organizations as units for building a healthy society. Discussions will also include the role of productivity procedure, elements of inputs and optimal output flow. The components of an ideal and practical productivity procedure and productivity quotient at individual and organizational levels will be explored, as well as identification of value-add component of work-life integration and its relationship with productivity.
Thus, major issues that will be addressed in this chapter include:
q Concept of productivity vis-а-vis work-life integration and the relationship that is inherently subsumed between work-life integration (WLI) and productivity at both the individual and organizational levels. Thus, the contents of this chapter will include the operational definition of WLI, productivity, factors affecting WLI and productivity value stream flow.
q Process flow perspective of productivity, work-life integration and factors impacting on work-life integration.
q What determines an optimal productivity procedure
q What are the critical inputs for an optimal productivity flow within an ideal work-life integration continuum q Which outputs constitute value-add at individual and organizational levels vis-а-vis an ideal work-life integration.
q Prioritization: importance of prioritization hinged on work-life integration towards eliciting optimal productivity
q Time management and discipline as integral factors for productivity: Time wasters impacting on work-life integration and productivity at individual and organizationa
