The work-life balance and enrichment experiences - Case study on Sainsbury's

Unit 11 - Research Project
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CONTENTS
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
TITLE: - “The work- life balance and enrichment experiences”. - Case study on Sainsbury's......3
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................3
Rationale......................................................................................................................................3
Aim:.............................................................................................................................................3
Research objectives.....................................................................................................................3
Research questions.......................................................................................................................4
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................4
The practices relevant to work- life balance and enrichment experiences in context of business
organization.................................................................................................................................4
The challenges that Sainsbury's undergoes during managing work- life balance among
employees....................................................................................................................................4
The strategies that leads to generate better organization working culture in order to maintain
work life balance and enrichment experience.............................................................................5
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.............................................................................5
CHAPTER 4: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION.....................................................8
CHAPTER 5: RESEARCH OUTCOMES....................................................................................13
CHAPTER 6: REFLECTION & RECOMMENDATION FOR ALTERNATIVE RESEARCH
METHODOLOGY........................................................................................................................13
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION......................................................................................................14
CHAPTER 8: RECOMMENDATION..........................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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TITLE: - “The work- life balance and enrichment experiences”. - Case study
on Sainsbury's
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
A work life balance is an organisational concept which help an employee to divide their
time and energy between the work as well as impart areas of life effectively. This plays a
significant role in keeping employees engaged within the work and doesn’t compromise on work
due to mis-management of work and life (Galea, Houkes and De Rijk, 2014). The concept of
work-life balance has become a crucial part for each organisation as it directly influences the
productivity of employees which in turn if not get due attention then it may affect the
organisation’s performance in market. For determining the influence of work life balance over
organisational productivity, this investigation is performed. To conduct this study effectively,
Sainsbury is taken into consideration which is a second largest supermarket within United
Kingdom which offer range of grocery items and other useful daily essentially product or
services. Addition to this it also works in several different areas like clothing, homeware &
outdoors, banking and many more (Kossek, Valcour and Lirio, 2014). As it operates its business
operations in several different areas it become crucial for the company to determine the
importance of work life balance.
Rationale
The main aim behind conducting this study is to develop an understanding regrading the
importance of work life balance for an organisation and manner in which it is helpful for
company in improving it productivity. Other than that, this study also help in determining several
challenges that an organisation while developing a culture that promote a balance life fro
employees (Bedarkar and Pandita, 2014). This in turn help other organisations to get an idea
regarding the issue they may face so that strategies can be formulated accordingly.
Aim:
“To investigate the importance of supporting work- life balance practices and enrichment
experiences on organization productivity” - Case Study on Sainsbury's
Research objectives
 To understand the practices relevant to work- life balance and enrichment experiences in
context of business organization.
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 To determine the challenges that Sainsbury's undergoes during managing work- life
balance among employees.
 To identify the strategies that leads to generate better organization working culture in
order to maintain work life balance and enrichment experience.
Research questions
 What are the practices relevant to work- life balance and enrichment experiences in
context of business organization?
 What are the challenges that Sainsbury's undergoes during managing work- life balance
among employees?
 What are the strategies that leads to generate better organization working culture in order
to maintain work life balance and enrichment experience?
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
The practices relevant to work- life balance and enrichment experiences in context of business
organization
As per the view point of Weber. J. L., 2018, in todays business world, organizations
believe that the productivity of an employees is highly get affected by working culture or
environment they get. As while working over a restricted schedule it become impossible for
employees to maintain a balance between their work and life which in turn increase their stress
and directly affect their performance. In order to deal with these issues there are number of
practices that organizations mainly adopt such as restricting working hours where employees are
order to complete work efficiently in provided hours (Henly and Lambert, 2014). Other than this,
flexibility in overtime is provided so that people can manage their work accordingly and also get
some personal time for themselves. Other than this, employees that are newly made parents
provided with some relaxation in their working hours so that they can manage their
responsibilities accordingly.
The challenges that Sainsbury's undergoes during managing work- life balance among
employees
Jansen. M., 2016, stated that while implementing actions toward supporting employees to
have a well-managed work and life, there are number of issues that Sainsbury may face. This
mainly includes lack of control as when organization provide more benefit to the employees then
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