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What exactly is boundary control?What exactly is boundary control?


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More recently, it has become difficult to

design jobs as a series of explicit tasks to beperformed.

Organizational culture, built from underlyingvalues and beliefs about what is important,valued, and rewarded within an organization,assumes and carries crucial controlfunctions.

Each of these types of control involvesmanagers governing the temporal boundarybetween employees' work and their livesoutside of work.


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Boundary control refers to managers'ability to affect how employees divide

their time between their work andnonwork spheres of life.


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Whyte:documented:

"Question: How does the organization know managersare doing their jobs and that they are making thebest possible decisions?

Answer:Because they are spending every moment atit and thus working to the limits of humanpossibility.

Question: When has a manager finished the job?

Answer: Never. Or at least, hardly ever. There isalways something more that could be done."


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What do we mean by boundary control /

Work Life balance ?

Equal balance between work and personal activities ?

Life is and should be more fluid than that.

Is it same for everyone ?

Varies from individual to individual, and varies over time

on a daily basis as well over different phases of life

There is no perfect, one-size fits all solution.

The best work-life balance is different for each of us because we all

have different priorities and different lives.

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ImagineImagine

ImagineImagine


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You have to give yourself

PERMISSION to have more

integration between yourprofessional work and personal life

You have to give yourself

PERMISSION to have more

integration between yourprofessional work and personal life


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So what exactly is boundary control ?

Revolves around two key everyday concepts relevant to each of us

Daily Achievement

Enjoyment

Not mere "Ha-Ha". It means Pride, Satisfaction, Happiness, Celebration,

Love, and A Sense of Well Being

ideas almost deceptive in their simplicity, yet so relevant to all

These two concepts are like the front and back of the coin of value in life.

Do you know any "Successful" people whore not as happy as they should be ?


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Defining Work- life balance ?

Life will deliver the value and balance we desire ...when we achieve and

enjoy something every single day...in all the important areas that make up

our lives.

Hence, a good working definition of Work-Life Balance is:

Meaningful daily Achievement and Enjoyment ineach of the four life quadrants:


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FRIENDSFRIENDS

WORKWORKFAMILYFAMILY

SELFSELF


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A balanced life is one where we spread our energy and effort - emotional,

intellectual, imaginative, spiritual and physical between key areas of

importance.

The Mathematician's ViewThe Mathematician's View


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A wheel has spokes to ensure its strength and balance. Unequal spokes

can make the ride very bumpy, or completely break down

The Analyst ViewThe Analyst View


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How do you define your own work lifebalance?

What are your Values?

Whats important to you?

What makes you happy ?

What did you write down earlier?

What are the Barriers?

time, stress, dual career family, lack ofsupport from family, supervisor, peers


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WorkWork

RelationshipsRelationships SelfSelf--CareCare


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Work Life Triangle

Work ( what we do, careers, housework, chores,etc)

Relationships (personal, friendships, partners,

spouses, children

Self-Care (spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional,health, wellness, exercise)


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How do you achieve Balance?

Its all in what you think and say to yourself.

Robert Ellis Rational Emotive Therapy A, B, Cs of cognitivetherapy

If I continue to think as I have always

thought, I will continue to act as I havealways acted. If I continue to act as I havealways acted, I will continue to get what Ihave always gotten.

Change the thought, changes the behavior and leads to a newconsequence

Practice, Practice, Practice,


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Work Life Triangle - Work


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Work is not where you go

but what you do

John Chambers


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So how do we go about achieving the Work-Life

Balance ?

No cookie cutter solution.

Each person has his/ her own formula defining the composition of career,

family, friends and self into their integrated whole.

DreamWhen people's lives are out of balance they are unable to identify the obvious

options for themselves and their families

Be Selfish YourselfFirst

U are no good to anyone if U yourself are indisposed

Focus on whatever u are doing.

Maximize your productivity at work and dont let unfinished business carry over

into your personal time.

Always put in your best effort.. Even if its not your core competence


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Be Organized.

Disorganisation is the theft of time.

Try to manage your day, instead of having the day manage you.

Make lists.

Use technologies like PDA to offload the stress of remembering

Prioritize.

Lists invariably become lengthy. Identify those which contribute towards a

balance between work and life

Don't procrastinate.

Why invite stress to build up. It is only a compounding multiplier leading you in

one direction only

Be flexible.

Change is imminent. Those who accept this and work around change are the

most productive, best-adjusted individuals

Plan, but do not run your life on a time table. Its important to prioritise, but

be mindful that nothing is static.


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Don't be a slave to your e-mail or to phone calls

With Technological advances peoples expectation of response has risenproportionately.

The need to be needed is addictive

One needs 'downtime' to refresh mentally, emotionally or physically.

Know your weakness and strengths

Improve your skills as necessary to enhance your productivity and reduce yourstress.

Be forgiving, especially of yourself.

You are human. You will make mistakes and fall short of the ideal, including your

own.

Don't wallow in guilt. Learn from your mistakes.

Set boundaries and learn to say no.

Being a good employee, spouse, parent, and friend doesn't mean blindly giving

into everyone else's demands and spending all your time and energy doing for

others as they dictate.


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Work Life Triangle -

Relationships


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Team Chose the right team members,

better than yourself invest time inthe process

Know your team members,

colleagues & supervisors their

strengths and weakness. Leverage

their strengths, and provide support

in their areas of weakness Monitor (not manage) initial

engagements .. Just like a life guard

monitors new swimmers

Trust them and delegate make

yourself dispensable, so that u can

play a larger role in strategicinitiatives and career development

of team members

Dont try to soldier along on your own without asking for help it

can only result in a sense of isolation, martyrdom and exhaustion.


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Work Life Triangle Self Care


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Take time for yourself. This may sound difficult for people who believe they

are in very responsible position who think they are indispensable.Find opportunities within the busy work schedule

Take more Frequent though short breaks

Establish good, supportive relationships, both at work and home.

Give up the hesitation of knowing your colleagues better.Its important to foster real teamwork and create an environment in which

employees respect and are willing to assist each other.

Children frequently enjoy being a useful member of the family - especially if

they understand the importance of it.

Try the Home working (tele working) model to address those pressing

personal/ family needs.

Worry , but only to the point it helps


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Boundary Control Exercise #1

Sunil is 45-year old man and an only childwhose elderly, widowed mom has Alzheimer'sdisease. Sunil needs to aid his mom withpersonal needs as well as such things ascooking, housework, buying groceries, etc.

Sunil is also a sales representative for analarm company and must put in endless hoursat the office in order to get a promotion todistrict sales manager.

What can Sunil do to balance his work andnon-work lives?

What can Sunils organization do to help himbalance his work and non-work lives?


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Boundary Control Exercise #2

Rita is a 26-year old wife and new mother. Shehas just returned to work after a 6-weekmaternity leave and found out that her husband,Prashant, was laid off. Rita and Prashant are

both paying off student loans, they just put theirnew baby into a great daycare facility and boughta new car after the old one broke down.

How can Rita work toward balancing her work

and non-work lives?How can Prashant help?

How can Rita and Prashant work together so that

they each have balance?


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Jack Welch says: forget it. You can'tbalance business and personal life

" If there was ever a case of "Do as I say, not as I did,'' this isit. No one, myself included, would ever call me an authority onwork-life balance. For 41 years, my operating principle waswork hard, play hard and spend some time as a father...

If there was ever a case of "Do as I say, not as I did,'' this is it.

No one, myself included, would ever call me an authority onwork-life balance. For 41 years, my operating principle waswork hard, play hard and spend some time as a father...

"It's clear that the balance I chose had consequences for thepeople around me at home and at the office. For instance, my

kids were raised, largely alone, by their mother, Carolyn. Andfrom my earliest days at GE, I used to show up at the office onSaturday mornings. Not coincidentally, my direct reportsshowed up too. Personally, I thought these weekend hourswere a blast. We would mop up the workweek in a morerelaxed way and shoot the breeze about sports.


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"I have dealt with dozens of work-life balancesituations and dilemmas as a manager, andhundreds more as the manager of managers. Andover the past three years, I've heard from many

peoplebosses and employeesabout the complexissue of work-life balance. I have a sense of howbosses think about the issue, whether they tell youor not.

"Most bosses are perfectly willing to accommodatework-life balance challenges if you have earned itwith performance. The key word here is: if.

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