Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research
AWLP - Alliance for Work-Life Progress
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About WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress® WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life Progress advances work-life as part of an integrated total rewards strategy. This alliance defines and acknowledges best practices and innovation, facilitates dialogue, and elevates work-life thought leadership. Each year, the alliance leads a national awareness initiative celebrating October as National Work and Family Month. Recognizing that work-life encompasses a wide array of programs, the WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals established the Work-Life Certified Professional (WLCP®) designation in 2007.
As the parent organization of AWLP, WorldatWork is a global association dedicated to advancement of strategies and practices to attract, motivate and retain an engaged and talented workforce. Its focus is on total rewards, which include five components:
Compensation
Benefits
Work-Life
Performance and Recognition
Development and Career Opportunities.
WorldatWork has more than 30,000 members and customers worldwide who share this passion for total rewards and/or components of it. This includes specialists in work-life, compensation and benefits, as well as HR generalists and others who have an interest in education and networking. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork supports thought leadership, education, publications, research and certification, including the new Work-Life Certified Professional designation.
Work-Life: A Collection of Articles from WorldatWork
This collection provides ideas and concepts about how to effectively implement work-life initiatives, including programs that address telework, flexible scheduling, business continuity, wellness, dependent care and time off.
Watch Men and Work-Life
Integration:
A Global Study | 8:38
Men and Work-Life
Integration:
A Global Study
A Report by WorldatWork's Alliance for Work-Life Progress and WFD Consulting May 2011
A quarter century after its emergence and a decade
after the business case was established, the
work-life field is challenged to understand the
barriers that persist in preventing both employees (especially
men) from fully utilizing work-life options, and managers (often men) from fully supporting them. WFD
Consulting and WorldatWork’s Alliance for Work-Life
Progress partnered to investigate these challenges on a
global scale.
AWLP 2011 National Work-Life Summit Ensuring Work-Life Progress: Celebrating the Past and Moving into the Future See highlights from the event
How to Create a Unique Workplace Culture | 5:58 Anita Hildreth, Vice President of Tremendous People Team at McMurry, discusses how to create and sustain a unique workplace culture. McMurry's corporate culture is based on eight core values which drive most of their initiatives including Channel 8, the social media hub on the Intranet, the performance management system/success plan, annual employee survey, and open enrollment.
Interview by Marcia Rhodes
Flexibility is the Solution: What Problem Are You Solving? | 9:09
Kyra Cavanaugh, President, Life Meets Work and 2011 AWLP Work-Life Rising Star, and Kathy Kacher, President, Career/Life Alliance Services, discuss the 15 bottom-line benefits of flexibility programs, ways to tie flexibility to strategic imperatives, how to apply flex programs to low-wage workers to increase engagement and decrease turnover, and the importance of proper management training and education.
Implementing Workplace Flexibility | 7:54 Teresa Hopke, Principal, SVP Client Relations, Life Meets Work, provides advice on implementing a successful workplace flexibility program.
Alliance for Work-Life Progess(AWLP) Work-Life Seal of Distinction
The AWLP Work-Life Seal of Distinction is designed to recognize employers who demonstrate leadership in workplace strategies and practices to help employees achieve success in work-life effectiveness. More >>
Research Report:
Survey on Workplace Flexibility | Watch
Includes prevalence data on flex time, telework and other arrangements and examines the relationship of workplace flexibility to attraction, motivation and retention.
Tips to Help Win the Battle of Balance(mp3)
AWLP Director Kathie Lingle was a featured guest on "Get Over it!" hosted by Libby Gill. Kathie shares useful strategies and tips to help employers and employees win the battle of balance.
S.M.A.R.T. Teleworking Tips for Employers
Teleworking allows employees to work smarter, not harder. WorldatWork, an international association of human resource professionals, offers the S.M.A.R.T. way to manage teleworkers.
Work-Life Effectiveness Self-Audit(PDF) Assess your organization's work-life communications, indicate programs' strengths and weaknesses and provide an opportunity to set future work-life goals.
