Flexibility and Work-Life Balance - Opportunities and Threats

• Autorzy: Katarzyna Januszkiewicz
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: Flexibility of organizational behaviour of employees is most often treated as a homogene-ous category, without taking into account diff erences in its form and scope. However, it should be noted that various forms of fl exibility have various consequences. The purpose of this article is to describe the opportunities and threats of fl exible behaviour in the perspective of the organization and for the work-life balance of employees.Methodology/Approach: The paper presents a deductive model of analysis based on in-depth literature studies in management, psychology and sociology.Findings, implications/limitations: The fi rst part of the paper outlines the implications of fl ex-ibility in general terms identifying them as potential opportunities and threats in the perspective of employees and organizations. Particular attention has been paid to the challenges of contamination of the spheres of life and the resulting confl icts. The second part of the paper discusses the implica-tions of the indicated types of fl exibility of organizational behaviour of employees. Such variation in description seems to be particularly important from the point of view of the analysis of the consequences, since it allows the identifi ed eff ects to be assigned to specifi c categories and thus to be accurately identifi ed.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Organisational flexibility; Organisational behaviour; Work-Life Balance (WLB)

PL

Elastyczność organizacji; Zachowania organizacyjne; Równowaga praca-życie

• Czasopismo: Journal of Positive Management
• Rocznik: 2019
• Tom: 10
• Numer: nr 3
• Strony: 31--44

Twórcy

autor

Katarzyna Januszkiewicz

• SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

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DOI

10.12775/JPM.2019.006