WGSS 521 Feminist Leadership
& Management Week #6
Class Facilitation Lea Griess
Whitney Jones
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Work Life Balance Exists We “employ the term ‘work-life balance’ to encompass negative and positive associations relating to an individual’s work and non-work roles, including family but also other salient areas of engagement (e.g., sporting, recreational, community)”
Brough & O’Driscoll, 2010, pg. 281
Terminology:
Does terminology matter? ● Would anyone change their position if we change the terminology?
For example: wellbeing, work life integration, managing the rhythms of work and play?
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“Stressing the gendered consequences, many critics indict the separation of public, professional, and rational from private, personal, and emotional”
(Ashcroft, 2000, p. 348)
Do you agree with these critics? For example: Your ideal work environment separates
the personal from the professional
Chat with your group:
● Where, if at all, do the personal and professional, intersect in your ideal work environment?
● Why?
PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL
Themes from this week’s readings:
Emotions and the Workplace SAFE - Ashcroft article
Integration of the two - FO Ch 14
Vicarious Traumatization or Compassion Fatigue Human service providers - Wasco, Campbell & Clark article
Abortion clinic workers - FO Ch 16 Coping vs. Self-Care - Wasco, Campbell & Clark article
Themes from this week’s readings:
Work-Life Balance/Well Being/Self-Care Organizational vs. personal commitment - Brough & O’Driscoll article
Privilege and opportunity to practice
Burnout Institutional vs. individual
contributors and interventions - Finn article
LifeBalance at OSU
Small Group Activity:
Examine & Critique OSU’s LifeBalance
Philosophy
LifeBalance at OSU
Discussion Questions
Would you say this is a feminist philosophy, why or why not? What would you change?
Based on your understanding of the university, is this philosophy in practice? Examples?
What’s Your Philosophy?
Create a philosophy for your ideal work environment addressing its stance regarding the personal and professional
PERSONAL
PROFESSIONAL
Final Thoughts/Questions?
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