HRD's role in work-life integration issues: moving the workforce to a change in mindset

Abstract

Organizations have made remarkable gains in just ten years in work-life balance programs. Flexible work arrangements, competitive compensation and advancement for men, women and minorities, long-term saving and profit sharing programs and resource services to help with such things as day care, elder care and adoptions are all programs in which sponsoring organizations can be proud. The author proposes that organizations are now ready to make the next big step - making work-life integration a way of life. This article provides a call for action to human resource development professionals by providing background on work-life balance, profiling organizations who have made the transition into this way of thinking and providing specific actions that human resource development professionals can take to transform the thinking in the workplace.