Work-Life Balance - Employers Toolkit

Work-life Balance - Employers Toolkit

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Warwickshire Work life Balance Toolkit
Work Life Balance & Work Related Stress - Employers Guide

This guide provides practical help to enable you to put together action plans, for the development of work-life balance policies and, to tackle work-related stress.

It takes you through the business case for work-life balance helping you to take a fresh look at your organisation. Showing you how to audit policies and procedures to plan a cost effective framework for your work-life balance strategy.

In addition case studies of Employers of Choice in Warwickshire demonstrate the positive impact flexible working and other employee benefits can have on your organisation.

Part 2 of the guide looks at the Health & Safety Executive’s Management Standards for work-related stress.

It takes you through an audit process to help you develop an action plan and stress policy and also demonstrates how appropriate work-life balance policies can help manage and sometimes prevent work-related stress.

Case studies included in this guide profile organisations in the West Midlands which have attended Warwickshire County Council’s HSE Stress Management Workshops and, as a result, have successfully implemented stress reduction mechanisms in the workplace.

You can download the whole toolkit, or a selection of individual forms:

Work-life balance toolkit (PDF - 496 KB)
Work-life Balance Checklist (PDF - 68 KB) - Steps to Strategy. Before embarking on an action plan it could be useful to work through the following checklist. You are then ready to carry out a thorough company audit and to move on to the planning stage.
Framework for Work-life Balance (PDF - 96 KB) - How are you doing? Use this checklist to identify gaps in your work-life balance strategy.
Financial Model to calculate staff turnover (PDF - 46 KB) - The following method will enable you to roughly calculate the annual cost of staff turnover.
To view the toolkit you will need free Adobe Reader.

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	Work Life Balance & Work Related Stress - Employers Guide This guide provides practical help to enable you to put together action plans, for the development of work-life balance policies and, to tackle work-related stress. It takes you through the business case for work-life balance helping you to take a fresh look at your organisation. Showing you how to audit policies and procedures to plan a cost effective framework for your work-life balance strategy. In addition case studies of Employers of Choice in Warwickshire demonstrate the positive impact flexible working and other employee benefits can have on your organisation.
Part 2 of the guide looks at the Health & Safety Executive’s Management Standards for work-related stress. It takes you through an audit process to help you develop an action plan and stress policy and also demonstrates how appropriate work-life balance policies can help manage and sometimes prevent work-related stress. Case studies included in this guide profile organisations in the West Midlands which have attended Warwickshire County Council’s HSE Stress Management Workshops and, as a result, have successfully implemented stress reduction mechanisms in the workplace.

You can download the whole toolkit, or a selection of individual forms: Work-life balance toolkit (PDF - 496 KB) Work-life Balance Checklist (PDF - 68 KB) - Steps to Strategy. Before embarking on an action plan it could be useful to work through the following checklist. You are then ready to carry out a thorough company audit and to move on to the planning stage. Framework for Work-life Balance (PDF - 96 KB) - How are you doing? Use this checklist to identify gaps in your work-life balance strategy. Financial Model to calculate staff turnover (PDF - 46 KB) - The following method will enable you to roughly calculate the annual cost of staff turnover. To view the toolkit you will need free Adobe Reader.