Generally speaking, the goals and interests of employees and enterprises are not consistent. It is necessary to guide employees to plan their career, and plan their goals in different stages of life, work and life in advance according to their wishes, abilities and family situation. Without such systematic thinking, it is difficult to grasp the overall situation and get lost when encountering specific problems; On the other hand, if you have firm principles, you will take your time and correctly measure whether your choice meets the ultimate goal at any time, so as to achieve a dynamic balance between work and life.
(2) Let employees realize the core work that really needs to be completed.
Tell employees that in fact, the superior only evaluates the performance of employees, and the length of working hours is not included in the evaluation index. If the performance is good enough, it can win the approval of superiors, and good performance can naturally "exchange" employees' free time; It takes a long time to finish the work, but it will lower the evaluation in the eyes of superiors.
(3) Let employees learn to dedicate special time to improve work efficiency.
Warn employees that they must put enough energy into the work process and cultivate the concept of timeliness in order to improve work efficiency and win the transition time from one task to another; At the same time, tell employees not to be proud of working overtime, but to work on time and only pay attention to life during business hours.
(4) Let managers learn to assign work correctly and delegate power to subordinates.
When assigning work and giving instructions to subordinates, training managers should be clear about their nature, person in charge, content, time limit, effect and assessment indicators, and it is best to fully quantify them. Tell them that all this is vague, and the result may not only fail to achieve the work effect, but also waste the time of yourself and your subordinates, resulting in inefficiency and unnecessary overtime; At the same time, managers should not do everything by themselves, but should trust their subordinates and learn to authorize them correctly, so that they can share the work tasks for themselves.
(5) Let employees learn to say "no" to unreasonable distribution.
It is very important for employees to distinguish which jobs are their own and which jobs are not included in the job description. In terms of organizational structure design and process management, this is to achieve a clear division of labor and clear responsibilities, and to prevent unclear powers and responsibilities among superiors, peers and subordinates; From the aspect of human resource management, this involves scientific calculation of post workload, reasonable setting of posts and quotas, and standardized performance management of work performance, which is an essential basic ability for employees to achieve "work-life balance".
■ Care about and invest in employee health.
According to statistics, since the reform and opening up, 1200 famous entrepreneurs have died young, including Peng, president of Tsingtao Brewery, General Manager of Guizhou Xijiu, General Manager of Shanghai Volkswagen, Yang Mai, President of Ericsson (China) and Chairman of Shanghai Junyao Group. Some bosses of private enterprises are really "desperate" at work, and often let employees look after themselves.
But for ordinary employees, staying up late and working overtime will directly lead to lack of sleep, which is self-evident. The human resources department should encourage planned work, and do not advocate working continuously for more than ten hours or staying up late; Managers don't work hard themselves, and they don't encourage employees to work hard.
If the following situations occur, your work and life may already be in an unbalanced state: you are afraid to go to work every morning; A lot of working hours are posturing; It is difficult to concentrate, and there are no innovative ideas at work; Work pressure is too great to relax; I feel sick at the thought of the office; I haven't been excited about my job for a long time and so on.
In fact, employees are healthy, and enterprises can be safe and sound. However, the human resources department should not only stay in the traditional practices such as reimbursement of medical expenses and regular physical examination, but should take the initiative to make more extensive health investment for employees.
■ Strive to help employees solve their worries.
Many employees think they are "busy people", and often leave their family life and children to others to take care of, and spend money on issues that require time, energy and emotion, which is the so-called "socialized division of labor". For example, buy expensive gifts for family members and send them abroad for travel, thinking that this can make up for the usual neglect. However, in fact, this is not only useless, but also harmful, because these are irreparable, just formalizing and simplifying the relationship between yourself and your family.
However, it is really difficult for employees who are not busy to work and live on both shoulders. Then, the human resources department can properly help employees solve their worries. Learn from some well-known enterprises:
(1) Citigroup's Employee Assistance Program includes a child care program, which provides courses in children's intelligence, emotion and medical care, serving more than 1500 children every day.
(2) Microsoft has placed camera equipment in the kindergarten of employees' children, so employees can see their children online; Male employees also have a month of "maternity leave" to take care of their wives and babies.
To sum up, a balanced life and work can bring both employers and employees a win-win situation. Because in order to truly realize the "external customer satisfaction" of enterprises, we must first satisfy the "internal customers" of enterprises-employees. Paying attention to work-life balance can improve employee satisfaction, reduce employee turnover rate and absenteeism rate, attract high-quality talents, and finally make enterprises improve efficiency and expand output. Research shows that companies that are willing to invest to maintain the work-life balance of employees generally have more returns. Because doing so can bring more focused attitude, higher work enthusiasm and higher loyalty to employees.