The Balanced Life

M. Joseph Sirgy is a management psychologist. He has published extensively in the area of business administration, business ethics, and quality of life. He co-founded the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, the Macromarketing Society, and the Community Indicators Consortium. Over the years, he has received numerous awards for his research, teaching, and service to the management discipline.

• Part I. Introduction; 1. Life balance: setting the stage and understanding the language; 2. The imbalanced life; Part II. Inter-domain strategies to increase overall life satisfaction and achieve balance; 3. Engagement in social roles in multiple life domain; 4. Engagement in roles in health, love, family, material, social, work, and culture domains; 5. Engagement in new social roles; Part III. Inter-domain strategies to increase domain satisfaction and achieve balance; 6. Integrating domains with high satisfaction; 7. Compartmentalizing domains with high dissatisfaction; 8. Reallocating resources across domain; 9. Reducing role conflict; 10. Using skills, experiences, and resources in one role for other roles; 11. Concluding thoughts.

'Coming from one of the world's most productive scholars in the field of wellbeing/quality of life research, this book provides a splendid analysis of the many dimensions and facets of life and work, and strategies for achieving a good life by means of an optimal balance among all these elements.' Alex Michalos, Professor Emeritus, University of Northern British Columbia, USA