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Governmental interventions and social re-engineering to facilitate work-life balance: Singapore and South Korea.



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    he main objective of this chapter is to review governmental interventions and social re-engineering efforts in East Asian societies directed at facilitating reconciliation of the work and life domains. We begin by discussing the context of governmental work-life interventions. Then, we survey major elements of work-life interventions in Singapore and South Korea, with the intention of exploring two key issues. The first issue is what drives governmental work-life intervention in East Asian societies, and we address this through examining Singapore's initiatives. The second issue concerns hindrance to effective implementation of governmental work-life intervention, which we illustrate with the South Korea case. Finally, we summarize lessons learned and conclude with some recommendations. Our discussion is based on academic research as well as information from official sources in the two countries. Before proceeding further, we would like to clarify the scope of this chapter. First, we use 'work-life balance (WLB)' as a term that broadly refers to individuals' satisfaction with his or her performance in the work and other life domains, including the family domain. We conceptualize WLB this way because this term does not yet have a unified definition that is widely accepted. We hope that this chapter will serve as an initial step in understanding WLB policy in the Asian context and spur on further research on the topic. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISBN:
    9781783475087
  • Publisher:
    Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Book
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    271-294
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20065406
  • Citation:
    Handbook of research on work-life balance in Asia. Lu L, Cooper CL eds. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015 Jul; :271-294
  • Editor(s):
    Lu L; Cooper CL
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2015
  • Performing Organization:
    Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
  • Start Date:
    20050701
  • Source Full Name:
    Handbook of research on work-life balance in Asia
  • End Date:
    20290630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:e887868e657c90f7165ca092a32a84aec77603577d463fd2eaf8d959a56552441e015c7cab72c2092386b730e0832395207fd5293ba03335c42c6bb36dfd6638
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