IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-44067-9_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

SLHRM: Principles of Work/Life Balance and Margin

In: Christian Scripture and Human Resource Management

Author

Listed:
  • Gary E. Roberts

Abstract

How many hours should we work? This is a profound and essential question, answered by addressing a series of principles noted below: 1. The will of God as discerned through prayer, scriptural reflection, and other means for hearing God should be the directing force for our work hours and effort. We need to believe that God has a unique plan, purpose, and calling and that His direction, leading, and guidance are the best course for our lives. 2. The goal is neither a static nor a moving balance, but a shifting and dynamic harmony with God’s will and purpose. As Pastor John Ortberg (2002) noted, the Apostles did not lead balanced lives, but lives of order and seasonality as directed by God’s ongoing direction and priority setting. 3. God’s will for our vocational life encompasses the following characteristics: a. Performing our work with excellence as broadly defined (efficient and effective, mission enhancing, ethical, moral, and treating others by the Golden Rule) b. Providing sufficient time and energy for our other life domain obligations (family, church, community, etc.) c. Providing sufficient time for self-care (relationship building, sleep, nutrition, exercise, recreation, etc.)

Suggested Citation

  • Gary E. Roberts, 2015. "SLHRM: Principles of Work/Life Balance and Margin," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Christian Scripture and Human Resource Management, chapter 0, pages 133-156, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-44067-9_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137440679_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-44067-9_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.