Be a Work/Life-Friendly Boss

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 19 May 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Managers play a huge role in their employees' personal lives, which in turn affects productivity, morale, and turnover at work. Professor Scott Behson, author of "The Working Dad's Survival Guide," and professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University, gives practical tips for being a leader who is flexible, fair, and effective.

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0:00.0	The Closer Podcast brings you the inside story of deals changing the world, told by the people who know how it all went down.
0:09.0	Understand the human motivations behind groundbreaking business decisions with host Amy Keene.
0:14.6	Listen to The Closer, wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the H-B-Ridea Cash from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. I'm talking today
0:35.1	with Scott Beeson, a professor of management at Fairley Dickinson University and the
0:39.6	author of The Working Dad's Survival Guide, How to Succeed at Work and at Home.
0:44.4	He writes about work and family issues for time, the Wall Street Journal, the
0:47.2	Huffington Post, and of course, HBR.org.
0:50.0	And as well I should mention on your own blog, Father's Work and Family.
0:53.0	Scott, thank you so much for talking with us today.
0:55.0	Oh, so happy to be here.
0:57.0	So the research shows that managers have a major influence over their employees' work-life balance,
1:02.0	which makes sense.
1:03.4	And it also shows that employees with good work life balance
1:07.2	tend to be more engaged and that the companies tend to have
1:09.8	better financial performance indicators.
1:11.6	I mean, there's a lot of research here that shows this is something that's good to do. And yet there's a lot of research here that
1:12.7	shows this is something that's good to do and yet I think a lot of managers are
1:15.6	really clueless when it comes to helping their employees foster this balance or
1:19.3	maybe you don't realize that it's their job so and, and not in a malicious way,
1:23.2	but they've got a lot in their plates
1:24.3	they're not thinking about it.
1:25.5	So I thought we could start by talking about how
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