Many critics of free-market liberalism argue that higher product-market competition and the "Anglo-Saxon" management practices it stimulates increases productivity only at the expense of employees' work-life balance (WLB). The empirical basis of these claims is unclear. To address this issue we...

In this mechanical life, workmen reach house after completion of their hectic job with highest stress. Human being cannot be compared with machines. They have their own impulses, instincts, emotions. Employer should design a job which suits the needs of workmen not the technology. By using...

Section One: Introduction -- 1. Project goals and approach: increasing actionable Q.W.L knowledge -- Section Two: Quality of working life improvements in Europe: National programmes and perspectives -- 2. The action programme of the German federal government: Research on the humanization of...