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Work-life conflicts |
| Message Name: |
Personal life conflict |
| Date Posted: |
05/04/2001 |
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We are four students in an MBA program in New York City researching conflicts employees have in meshing their work lives with their personal lives.
I'd be interested in hearing how different companies and industries manage or encourage employees to handle these conflicts.
Anybody who would be interested in participating in a survey should e-mail ezer@peoplepc.com or darcement@aol.com.
Thanks,
David Ezer
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| Message: |
Well basically it's up to the managers where I work. The manager tries to smooth over the problems and help the person by covering their butt, if they are having problems that are causing work conflicts.
If the manager doesn't like the person, they may just trash or move the person on. It's not easy to fire people here as lawsuits can stop that although many of us are not in a union.
Our company (state government of Michigan) has a personal help line, to allow workers to call when they are under stress. It's probably another gloat entitlement program or excuse to have some social therapists on the payroll somewhere. I don't know if anyone here has actually used it or benefited from it as it's a confidential call (like seeing a doctor).
If you talking about (sexual) discrimination, well the minorities and those with EEO concerns RULE here. Wow they can almost get away with anything. The conflict is often more in trying to get someone to actually commit and do something here or "recast" and repurpose what (little) they did as actually doing something.
Most state agencies in Michigan are pretty corrupted in the past 10 years from "political" appointed leaders. But thats a different problem.
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