Work Life Balance Model Case Study

As an employee and also human resource to the company, they are the competitive advantage (Chenoweth, 2014) for the company. Therefore company needs peoples to fulfill the company objective, mission and vision. While working in the company employees need to accomplish the task given and the responsibilities that had been set. Most of the company had set the performance indicator towards their staff and responsibility on employee to achieve the target, in mean time as an employee and also a general people which had multiple roles (Lowe, 2007) to be fulfilled as the demands.
Apart from the responsibilities as an employee, employees are also the labor (Chenoweth, 2011) for the life of the family, many competing responsibility in life (Acas,
If people couldn’t manage well their duties on the specific roles it may result of burnout and stress. When those things appear it may gives effect to the person, organizational and the social. Abboud (2013), discuss the work life balance in five model it goes to segmentation model, spillover model, compensation model, conflict model and instrumental model. Her opinion in segmentation model discusses on work and family are separate and do not effect each other. Its means the duty of work and family duty being apply at different time, area and function. In carrying out those duties and responsibility people will act differently, such as, he might become the caring person as a father or husband, the soft spoken, active person and etc. but at workplace he is a strict officer, outspoken, punctual and etc. The personality change depends on the responsibilities of roles and dealing with
Flexible working hour refer to working schedule that is outside from the normal working hour pattern. Instead of repetitive or fixed working hour, the flexible working hour enable employee to have their own time when or where they are required to work (Acas, 2015). Flexible work arrangement (FWA) are alternatives to the traditional 9-5 work day and the standard work week, most of the reason employees want FWA to accomplish the multiple roles; family responsibilities and work life balance (Subramaniam et. al, 2014). The example of flexible working schedule, employee working hour daily 8 hours per day, accumulate to 40 to 42 hours a week, the flexible working hour being practice when one employee may arrive at 7 am and leave 3 pm, while another arrive at 9 am and leaves at 5 pm, but both must be at compulsory at core working time within 10am to 2 pm. To become it’s a culture in the organization; it could apply in the policy. All employees being notify, agree and accept the compulsory thing; the core working hour and being at workplace for about 8 hours, flexible with employees time