Improving work-life balance starts by giving employees control over their work, says Blake E. Ashforth, Regents' Professor and Horace Steele Arizona Heritage Chair at the W. P. Carey School of Management and Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. The essential work-life ingredients are deceptively simple, Ashforth says. “Generally, employee engagement and work-life balance happen when employees feel that they've got the trust, clarity, resources, and support to go ahead and do their own thing. If your employees have the training and the skills, turn them loose and trust them to do the job that you hired them for.”