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Work-Life Balance Question A Ire

This document contains a questionnaire about work-life balance policies and employee experiences. It includes 22 questions/statements grouped into the following categories: leave arrangements, pregnancy and parenting policies, flexible work arrangements, additional work provisions, and employee experiences at the organization. The questions gauge the importance of various work-life balance policies to employees personally and whether their organization has implemented these policies. It also asks about employee perceptions such as whether the organization encourages work-life balance or expects work to take priority over family.

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125 views3 pages

Work-Life Balance Question A Ire

This document contains a questionnaire about work-life balance policies and employee experiences. It includes 22 questions/statements grouped into the following categories: leave arrangements, pregnancy and parenting policies, flexible work arrangements, additional work provisions, and employee experiences at the organization. The questions gauge the importance of various work-life balance policies to employees personally and whether their organization has implemented these policies. It also asks about employee perceptions such as whether the organization encourages work-life balance or expects work to take priority over family.

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  • Work-Life Balance Questionnaire
  • Your Experience at This Organisation

WORK - LIFE BALANCE QUESTIONAIRE

Does your organisation have How important is this policy to you


Sr # Issues
this policy? personally

Don’t Very Don't


Yes No Important Unimportant
know Important know
LEAVE ARRANGEMENTS

Cultural/religious leave (allows employees to take


1 time off for cultural/religious reasons; public holidays
excluded)

Opportunity for leave if care arrangements for


children or other dependants break down (e.g. if
2
day-care mother gets sick the employee is allowed to
take leave to care for his/her child)

PREGNANCY AND PARENTING POLICIES

3 Paid maternity leave

4 Paid paternity leave

Staggered return to work after pregnancy (allows


5 employees to negotiate a temporary reduction in
hours of work when they return to work)

FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS

Telecommuting (e.g. where an employee can work


6 from home or outside of the central workplace using
his/her own or the organisation's equipment)

Time off in lieu, rostered days off (allows


7 employees to take time off for overtime they worked,
instead of payment)
Self-rostering and/or staggered start and finish
times (picking your own start and finish times and/or
8
days as long as you work an agreed number of
hours)

ADDITIONAL WORK PROVISIONS

Counselling services for employees (the


organisation pays for counselling services for
9
employees experiencing, among other things,
work/family stress)

Health programs (e.g. Quit Smoking programs, Flu


10
vaccinations on site, Dietary Advice programs)

Exercise facilities (the organisation provides on site


11
or subsidises exercise facilities/gym membership)

Equal access to promotion, training and


development (Providing equal access to promotion,
12 training and development by providing
encouragement and assistance to those employees
with family responsibilities)

YOUR EXPERIENCE AT THIS ORGANISATION

In this organisation it is frowned upon by


13
management to take leave for family related matters

The management of this organisation seem to put


14
their job ahead of their family and personal life

Employees are encouraged to use 'work-life balance'


15
policies at this organisation

This organisation has social functions at times


16
suitable for families
In order to get 'noticed' in this organisation,
17 employees must constantly put work ahead of their
family or personal life

Employees are often expected to take work home at


18
night or on weekends

Employees are expected to put their jobs before their


19
family or personal life

To get ahead employees are expected to work more


20
than 50 hours a week

When trying to balance work and family


21 responsibilities, it is easier to work things out among
colleagues than to get management involved

This organisation is serious about equal opportunity


22
and anti-discrimination

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