The nine-to-five day in the office is dead!

Perhaps not quite yet, but there's a great deal more to work-life balance than meets the eye. For the organisation, work-life balance raises questions about your recruitment and employment strategies now and in the future. Do you have the flexibility that will attract the kind of recruits you need and to hold onto them once you have got them? How will they get to work and what will they find when they get there? Whether you're currently based in a crowded urban area or in a rural greenfield site, the chances are that part-time working, remote or homeworking may appeal to some of your people and it may also overcome transport problems and the need to provide expensive office space for everyone, all of the time.

And the aspirations of many employees are changing too. New generations want to enjoy the benefits of their work, financial, social and intellectual but they want to enjoy their home life too.

Margaret Adams' groundbreaking collection of activities allows you to:

• explore these issues with managers and employees
• identify the benefits and the costs (and savings) associated with new ways of working, and relate the two
• search for opportunities for new ways of working, from the perspective of both employer and employee
• agree the implications and the ground rules for any changes
• develop an effective and imaginative work-life balance policy
• communicate and share aspirations, decisions and implications with everyone concerned
• work out how to motivate your employees and improve their job performance

The activities use case studies, discussions, games, planning activities and questionnaires to explore every aspect of work-life balance. The manual includes a CD ROM of supporting PowerPoint slides and .pdf files of the photocopiable material to supplement the printed versions.

 

(Normally delivered within 5-7 days).