Compare and contrast Britain and Singapore on the following issues:
1. Work Life Balance

Your answer must refer to at least ONE of the academic publications cited at the end of the slides for the relevant topic.

Reference for work-life balance

Atkinson, J. (1984) `Manpower strategies for flexible organisations’, Personnel Management, August.
Bontrager, M., Clinton, M.S & Tyner, L. (2021). Flexible Work Arrangements: A Human Resource Development Tool to Reduce Turnover. Advances in Developing Human Resources 23(2).

Brown et al. (2010) ‘Academic Casualization in Australia: Class Divisions in the University’, Journal of Industrial Relations 52(2):169-182 ·

Buchanan J (2004) Paradoxes of significance: Australian casualisation and labour productivity, paper prepared for ACTU, RMIT and The Age Conference ‘Work Interrupted: casual and insecure employment in Australia’, Melbourne, 2 August

Chan, S. (2013) ‘I am King’: Financialisation and the paradox of precarious work. The Economic and Labour Relations Review 24 (3).

Gold, M. and Mustafa, M. (2013) ‘Work always wins’: Client colonisation, the erosion of work-life boundaries and the anxieties of self-employed teleworkers, New Technology, Work and Employment, 28(3): 197-211

Lewis, P., Thornhill, A. and Saunders, M. (2003) Employee Relations. Understanding the Employment Relationship, London: FT/Prentice Hall

Kalleberg, A. (2011) Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment. New York: Russell Sage Press.

MacInnes, J. (2008) ‘Work-Life Balance: Three Terms in Search of a Definition’ in Warhurst, C., Eikhof, D. R., and Haunschild, A. (eds.) (2008) Work less, live more? Critical analyses of the work-life boundary, Palgrave Macmillan

Moore, F., 2007. Work-life balance: contrasting managers and workers in an MNC, Employee Relations. 29(4), pp. 385-399

Pollert, A. 1988 “The `Flexible Firm’: Fixation or Fact?” Work, Employment and Society 2 (3) Rani, U. et al. (2021) Digital labour platforms and new forms of flexible work in developing countries: Algorithmic management of work and workers. Competition and Change. 25(4): 212-236.

Walsh, J. (2013) ‘Gender, the Work‐Life Interface and Wellbeing: A Study of Hospital Doctors’, Gender, Work and Organization, 20(4), 439-453