Certification
The “Work & Life Balance”® Certification is a management tool for all kinds of organizations for the optimisation of a life balance-oriented culture.
This certification program is oriented to get a strong balance between corporate interests and employees’ concerns. It establishes a standard based on several years’ experience in Germany and other countries of the European Union, which guarantees succesful practices in the area of life balance-conscious policies. This allows a social recognition, the recognition of awards and achieves a quality standard in questions of life balance practices inside the social capital of organisations.
The certification
In order to get the certification, the organizations must implement 21 initiatives, three for each of the seven categories that are audited, related to human capital and to benefits and services, that these organizations already offer or provide to its employees or associates.
These initiatives must be possible to be measured and controlled in their implementation and scope through a Business Balanced Scorecard or control panel. It is a fundamental requirement for the certification.
The Certification Program helps through its implementation, to get structure and system with the benefits that already exist more the initiatives, which will be implemented to meet the requirements of the certification in
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Benefits
The Benefits for an organization are, among others, that it will play a pioneering role which is conducive to further life balance-friendly measures as well as that it will be able to position itself very favourably in the competition for qualified staff.
The “Work and Life Balance”® Certification provides the company with an instrument that can, after completion of the auditing process, be reapplied any time for internal use (e.g. as an instrument for the “check-up” of departments and sectors). Benefits from Life Balance-Conscious Measures are:
- higher staff motivation
- higher commitment to performance and productivity in the company
- stress reduction for employees
- reduction in cost-intensive employee fluctuation
- lower absenteeism rate
- fostering and improving of the corporate image vis-à-vis the public, customers/clients
- enhanced competitiveness
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