as a manager how to deal with multiple work life issues in an organization?

Question

single personnel verses personnel with a family

Answer 1

Technically speaking, your single personnel shouldn't be treated any differently than your employees who have families. If someone wants to take off to go see his kid's soccer game, it's not fair unless your single employees are allowed to take off to go see a concert-you get my point. Either way, the time should be either vacation time or made up the next day. It's nice that employers want to make employees work/life balance better, but it seems to me that people with children are treated better than single people (bear in mind, I have children, so I've been on both sides of the equation).

Whatever your decision ends up being, you have to make sure you're not discriminating one way or the other. Unfortunately, this might mean that no one gets privileges, but that's better than a perception of someone getting special treatment.

Answer 2

Always be professional in your job, always. Don't show favoritism. I have kids too, but I know how much leave I have, and it's up to me to use it wisely, or make other arrangements. Sure it sucks having to use your leave for your kids instead of yourself, but that's life. Once you bend the rules for one employee, you have to do it for the others; Otherwise that's when the backbiting starts. If an employee has a problem with your decision, whip out the handbook, and say, "Are you asking me to bend the company rules for you?", that wouldn't be fair to the other employees.