Portuguese Project

Measure: Work-Life Balance

AFEP – AFEP – Parental Education AssociationParental Education AssociationDeveloped for the education and investigation on Developed for the education and investigation on parental education.parental education.

AMA – AMA – Women´s Action AssociationWomen´s Action AssociationEducation and promotion of women´s rights and Education and promotion of women´s rights and family policiesfamily policies

DIA DIA Portugal SupermarketsPortugal SupermarketsA chain of supermarkets with about 300 stores in the A chain of supermarkets with about 300 stores in the country, belonging to the Carrefour Groupcountry, belonging to the Carrefour Group

ITAU – ITAU – Human Food Technical InstituteHuman Food Technical InstituteDedicated to collective food business Dedicated to collective food business

Psychology and Education Sciences UniversityPsychology and Education Sciences UniversityPrestigious Public University in Lisbon, responsible Prestigious Public University in Lisbon, responsible for the evaluationfor the evaluation of this project. of this project.

Who are we?

Needs AssessmentNeeds Assessment

MethodologyMethodology

Focus Group 3 Scales

Focus Group

ParticipantsParticipants

9 Workers

6 3

Scale

228 Participants from Lisbon and Setúbal Districts

13%

87%

Masculine

Feminine

Scale Work-Family Conciliation

Work-FamilyConflict

Time

Work-FamilyConflictStrain

Work-FamilyPositive Influence

“I feel I don’t have enough time to fulfill my responsabilities at home due to the time I have to spend on my

career”

“The stress from my job often makes me irritable

when I get home”

“Talking to someone from my job helps me

work out my family issues”

Scale Work-Family Conciliation

Family-WorkConflict

Time

Family-WorkConflictStrain

Family-WorkPositive Influence

“The time I spend with family responsabilities often

interferes with my work responsabilities”

“Due to stress at home, I am often worried with family

matters at work”

“My family life helps me relaxing to face up to a

new working day”

Scale

Company workers involvement

Restricted involvement,based only on

economicor material resources’

exchange

High involvement,based on socio-emotional

resources’ exchange

Appropriate involvementreceiving possibility of

personal and professionaldevelopment, offering an

effective performance

“Dia-Minipreço has the duty to give me work

only as long as it needs me”

“Dia-Minipreço has the duty to be concerned with my well-being”

“Dia-Minipreço has the duty to support me in order to obtain de best possible performance level from

me”

Scale

Workers well-being

Comfortable

Calm

Relaxed

Motivated

Thrilled

Optimistic

Scale Results

There are time management difficulties and time occupied by workhas a negative interference on the family;

Family life has a professional life positive interference;

Workers involvement is based on a socio-emocional relationship. They consider that they receive respect, personal and professional development opportunities and self-realization;

There are as many workers thrilled and comfortable with their work, as others where this doesn’t happen;

Scale Results

The relational psychological contract has a positive influence on the work-family conflict. Workers whose organizational relationship is based on socio-emotional resources felt more conciliation difficulties, particularly, more conflicts between work and family, in terms of time and strain;

Work-family conflict has a negative influence on the workers’ well-being.

Conclusions of Needs Assessment

 

Work-Family Conflict < Well-Being

How to decrease?

Parental Training

Time Management

New work organization forms

• Develop personal and social skills (namely parental) in the co-worker, in order to enable him/her to better find Work-family Conciliation solutions;

• Develop in the organizations a Work-Family Conciliation policy that, fits the needs of the workers, meets the company’s culture and the goals that it set.

Through a transversal intervention at all hierarchical levels.

Our Objectives:

ActivitiesActivities

Experimentation of Sensibilization Models of conci-liation skills

Experimentation of Parental and Time Management Skills Education

Experimentation of New Work Organization Forms

Evaluation of the activities’ impact on the fight against absenteeism and for the increase of productivity

In order to face competitiveness we need people involved with the

work

but

Efficiency does not have to be, necessarily, a synonym of Work-

Family Conflict

SMSm Project

Influence the people, with the purpose of reducing the conflict

Influence the organization, to reinforce the conciliation culture

Work-Family Sensibilization sessions for 70Supermercados Dia Portugal, S.A. workers

Formation Sessions for 72 Store Managers from Supermercados Dia Portugal, S.A.

•Responsibilities within the Family•Time Management

What have we already done?

Formation Sessions for 36 workers from Itau

Intervention on workers through companymemos/boletins

THERE ARE INFLUENTIAL RESOURCES

PERSONAL EFFICIENCY RESPONSIBILITIES:

IniciativeOptimismCreativity

Time managementSelf-knowledgeDecision making

Emotional Balance… … …