Project Outline: Work-Life Balance and Accenture Australia's Women

This project outline investigates the impact of work-life balance on women employees, specifically within Accenture Australia. The study aims to explore the elements influencing work-life balance, identify family-work conflict variables, highlight challenges faced by women employees, and assess their awareness of existing work-life balance policies. The research employs a positivism research philosophy, a deductive approach, and a qualitative research design using structured interviews with senior women employees. Data will be collected from secondary sources like the Accenture Australia website, journals, and articles, with thematic analysis used to analyze findings. The project acknowledges the significance of work-life balance in the context of gender equality and aims to provide insights into the challenges faced by women in the workforce, particularly within the global organization of Accenture Australia. The bibliography includes a comprehensive list of relevant sources on work-life balance and related topics.

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Title of the project
Effect of Work-Life-Balance on women employees: a study based on Accenture Australia
Brief statement of the problem
Work-Life-Balance has become a significant matter since the working women have been
splitting the equal responsibility for development of the family. The women continue
employment even after marriage and marriage women have responsibilities than men taking care
of home and children. The working women can manage the situation by perseverance and
commitment. The women are participating in employment and they involve in income generation
that leads towards satisfying the home needs (Lyness & Judiesch, 2014). Family-work conflict
(FWC) exerts negative influence in family domain and it can influence greater internal conflict
and lower satisfaction within the family. There are multiple variables that can impact on the
Work-Life-Balance of the women, family size, working hours and age of the children and level
of family as well as social support (Crompton & Lyonette, 2016). In this regard, Accenture is a
global organisation and the organisation is committed to gender equality (Accenture.com, 2018).
However, in Accenture Australia, women workforce is not treated well as women have been
treated as they do not have the ability to define or achieve goal. The women in Australia cannot
make the Work-Life-Balance and Accenture Australia fails to assist the women in accessing the
network in global workforce to make the plan, evolve the women in life stages.
Research aim
The aim of the project is to explore the effect of Work-Life-Balance on women
employees and the project will narrowly focus on Accenture Australia.

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Objectives of the research project:
 To find out the elements of Work-Life-Balance in employment
 To explore the variables of Family-work conflict for women employees
 To highlight the challenges that the women employees have been facing in Accenture
Australia
 To establish women employees’ awareness of the existence of Work-Life-Balance
policies in Accenture Australia
Brief methodology
In this research, Positivism Research philosophy will be used as Positivism is used to
generate factual knowledge. In positivism, the researcher will be limited to data collection and
interpretation of data, most importantly; the researcher will collect data in a scientific way.
The researcher will select the Deductive approach and deductive approach is used when
the research objectives are developed from already existing theories. The deductive approach
helps to move from more general level to more specific level (Flick, 2015).
In order to collect the data about Work-Life-Balance of women employees, qualitative
research design will be used. Qualitative data is mainly based on observation and subjective data
(Lewis, 2015). Qualitative research design would provide help to logical description of data
collection and analyse to address the research objectives.
The researcher would collect the data through conducting structured interviews of the
senior women employees in Accenture Australia. 5 senior women employees would be sample

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size for the interviews. Non-probability sampling will be used. The researcher will prepare 10
open-ended questions and the researcher will record the observation.
Clearly, identify secondary data sources and data
Secondary data sources will be collected through the website of Accenture Australia,
books, journals, articles, government reports and online magazines. Secondary data are not raw
data and these are typically inexpensive. Secondary data can be obtained quickly and comparison
can be done from different data sources (Taylor, Bogdan & DeVault, 2015). There is a large
amount of data already present about Work-Life-Balance on employment of women in existing
literature. In addition, the researcher will collect 10 existing journal articles on Work-Life-
Balance of women employees and the findings of the interviews will be contrasted and compared
with existing literature. Most importantly, data will be analysed taking the method of thematic
analysis. As stated by Lewis (2015), thematic analysis can be defined as form of analysis of
qualitative research as it stresses, examines and pinpoints the chosen themes within the data.
Moreover, the researcher will segregate the themes according to the data findings and analyse
these with graphs and charts.

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Bibliography
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Crompton, R., & Lyonette, C. (2016). Work-life ‘balance’in Europe. Acta sociological, 49(4),
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women's employment. Routledge-Cavendish.

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