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Part 1

In preparation for this discussion, read the following articles:

Work, Family, and Stress  – https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/236466

Flexible Work Arrangements (Koch, 1998) – http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1998081402

Top 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance  – https://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/05/11/top-25-companies-for-work-life-balance

Everybody Wins With a Healthy Work-Life Balance – https://www.cnbc.com/id/100720414

10 Ways to Establish a Better Work/Life Balance  https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/benefits/Pages/10-ways-work-life.aspx

Balancing work and personal responsibilities can be a challenge. Employers are increasingly acknowledging these struggles and are instituting policies to help address them. Please address the following:

·         Suggest two policies that you think employers could institute that would best promote work-life balance among their employees. Be sure to explain why you think these policies would help.

·         Would all employees benefit from these policies or just certain types of employees? 

·         Once these policies are instituted in the workplace, what role does workplace culture play in whether or not employees take advantage of them?

·         What effect would these policies promoting work-life balance have on workplace productivity?        

Part 2

In preparation for this discussion, review the following resources:

Emotional Labor Study at the University of Memphis – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOj-0fm79AA

Job Stress , (1995) – http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1995080400

You may also want to read, “Stress in the Workplace: A costly epidemic – http://fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/99su/stress.html

There are many stressors in the workplace that affect employees. Emotional stressors are no different. As our economy has moved from a manufacturing to a service-based economy, there are many more workers in a variety of occupational fields that are expected to manage their emotions according to employer demands. Emotional labor refers to a form of emotion regulation that creates a publicly visible facial and bodily display within the workplace. The increasing prevalence of this type of work introduces a new set of stressors in the workplace.  

In your initial post:

·         Describe examples of emotional labor in the following professions:

• Teachers
• Nursing
• Human Resources

·         Give a suggestion of what employers can do to help employees address the personal impact of emotional labor?