SOCS2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Juggling, Marketization
29 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
May 16, 2018
WEEK 10
Work-Life Balance
Work-Life Balance
- Juggling act
- Problem with the term?
o Its part of your life
o Your work is as much part of life as everything else
- Usually difference between non-paid work and paid work
This week – changing social norms and values in Australia, critiques of the response of
institutions and organizations to shifting norms
Contestations
5 Key Conflicts that go to produce great tragedy
1. Gender
2. Age
3. Individual / family
4. Individual / state
5. Family / state
…Work-life balance has them all
Work-Life Collision
Changing expectations, norms, behaviors
COLLIDE with
Unchanging institutions and values
→ Fallout
. . . which impacts negatively on lives of Aus men, women, children
Changing behaviors, norms, values
• Work intensification, long hours
• Households (more two-income with dependents)
• Rising consumption and marketization
o Buying things to make life better
• Increased participation of women in labor market
o Response to women being more active in WW2 when men were in war
• Thinner community
• Deteriorating access to leave
Collide with…
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Document Summary
It(cid:1685)s part of your life: your work is as much part of life as everything else. Usually difference between non-paid work and paid work. This week changing social norms and values in australia, critiques of the response of institutions and organizations to shifting norms. 5 key conflicts that go to produce great tragedy: gender, age, individual / family, individual / state, family / state. Fallout which impacts negatively on lives of aus men, women, children. Changing behaviors, norms, values: work intensification, long hours, households (more two-income with dependents, rising consumption and marketization, buying things to make life better. Increased participation of women in labor market: response to women being more active in ww2 when men were in war (cid:1688)thinner(cid:1689) community, deteriorating access to leave. Unchanging institutions and values (cid:1688)ideal worker(cid:1689) norms (full time, (cid:1688)care-less(cid:1689): gendered distribution of domestic work and care, cultural constructions of motherhood, fatherhood, and carers, precarious nature of part-time work, legal framework of work.
