Journal ArticleDOI
Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance
TLDR
Work/family border theory as mentioned in this paper is a new theory about work/family balance that addresses how domain integration and segmentation, border creation and management, border-crosser participation, and relationships between bordercrossers and others at work and home influence work and family balance.Abstract:
This article introduces work/family border theory - a new theory about work/family balance. According to the theory, people are daily border-crossers between the domains of work and family. The theory addresses how domain integration and segmentation, border creation and management, border-crosser participation, and relationships between border-crossers and others at work and home influence work/family balance. Propositions are given to guide future research.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
In Search of Perfect Boundaries? Entrepreneurs’ Work-life Balance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a qualitative research approach to enhance their insight into entrepreneurs' work-life balance using border theory, drawing on border theory to examine entrepreneurs' WLB in terms of how they construct and manage the borders between their work and nonwork lives.
Journal ArticleDOI
Bringing Work Home or Bringing Family to Work: Personal and Relational Consequences for Working Parents
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of work-family and family-work role blurring on personal and relational well-being among parents, and found that both directions of role blurming were indirectly associated with lower marital satisfaction in mothers through a decreased psychological wellbeing.
Journal ArticleDOI
Supporting ‘superwomen’? Conflicting role prescriptions, gender-equality arrangements and career motivation among Dutch women physicians
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce four goal frames that reflect how women physicians internalize these conflicting role prescriptions and investigate the relationship between women's goal frames and their career motivation, and whether gender-equality arrangements moderate this relationship.
Women and work-life balance: A phenomenological qualitative analysis of identity, relational style, adaptive style, and drive and motivation, and the role of faith from the narrative life-story framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a qualitative study of women and work-life balance, focusing on the career history for women and their personal and professional challenges. But, the authors focus on the work challenges of females and not the personal challenges of women.
References
More filters
Book
Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jeanne Lave,Etienne Wenger +1 more
TL;DR: This work has shown that legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice is not confined to midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, non-drinking alcoholics and the like.
Book
Acts of meaning
TL;DR: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings, and only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can be grasped.