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What are work-life programs? How are they related to work-family programs? What are some of the challenges in developing and using work-life programs? Hi Expert, Can you please help? I'm looking for an original answer, please no plagiarism. Thanks is advance!

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✓ work life programs are the strategies of human resources management, which involves policies and practices to help and encourage the employees in maintaining a balance between their work and personal or family life. These programs provide assistance like, insurance, incentives, added benefits, accommodation, stress management, etc which helps to keep the employees satisfied and engaged with the jobs.

Work life programs are related to work family program, because, personal lives of employees involve their families life and family time majorly. These programs helps in providing accommodation facilities, and other benefits which are helpful to ease the employees burden for taking care of his family. This would result in high performance and positivity towards management.

✓ there are various challenges which hinders the work life programs, these includes top management disinterest and lack of support from them to develop such programs focused to help employees. Because, it comes with greater costs and resources to be arranged. The manager might not have focused on important aspects to be considered in the program and included the least important one which may make the employees less participative and show dissatisfaction. Other than this, there might be problems in arranging resources, facilities, and benefits which are important to make the program gets implemented.