WGSS 521 Feminist Leadership

& Management Week #6

Class Facilitation Lea Griess

Whitney Jones

STRONGLY AGREE

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DISAGREE

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AGREE

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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?