Balancing Your Work and Personal Life

The topic of work-life balance applies to a person's effort to be effective in their worklife and in their personal life, as well. This topic wasn't as important in the past as it is today because, in the past, people often were able to attend primarily to one major role in their life (eg, working, housework, etc.), rather than to several (eg, to a career, being a mother, being happy as an individual., etc). Organizations are recognizing that, to cultivate and support effective employees, the organization must assist employees to learn how to achieve and maintain suitable work-life balance.

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The Imbalance of Life/Work Balance
09/16/96 BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY
Self-Assessment Test of Work-Life Stress
Leadership Knowledge Base: Information to Improve Your Leadership Skills.
Work Family Connection Home Page
Women's Wire, Career, Part Time Work, Professional, Part-Time Job ...
Families at Work - Our Home Page
Balance work, family issues to boost productivity -- 1998-03-30
Work and Family - WSJ.com
Women's Wire: Balancing Work Life -- Succeeding at the two jobs
Work Family Connection Home Page
Families and Work Institute
Balancing Work and Family
Families and Work Institute
Work Life Balance
The Work Life Balance Foundation

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Parents Place
National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
Parent Soup
Parentz Channel
Parent Time
Pampers Parenting Institute


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