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Work/Family Border Theory: A New Theory of Work/Family Balance
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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
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Work-life balance for sustainable human development: Cultural intelligence as enabler
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Development and initial validation of a cognitive-based work-nonwork conflict scale.
TL;DR: An initial measure of work-nonwork conflict from cognitive preoccupation with work, a two-factor, nine-item scale, was developed and validated to provide encouraging preliminary evidence of scale validity.
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Relational Implications of Gay and Lesbian Workplace Romances: Understanding Trust, Deception, and Credibility
Sean M. Horan,Rebecca M. Chory +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the relational implications of same-sex workplace romances and compared results with findings for heterosexual workplaces, and found that the relational impact of same sex workplace relationships on women's relationships with men was minimal.
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Family-friendly practices, high-performance work practices and work–family balance: How do job satisfaction and working hours affect this relationship?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data for a representative sample of almost 17,000 employees of dual-earner couples from European countries to understand the relationship between different subsets of human-resources management practices and work-family balance, and proposed a model that disentangled the mediating mechanisms through which this relationship occurs.
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Role identity salience and boundary permeability preferences: An examination of enactment and protection effects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how role identity salience relates to boundary permeability preferences in the context of three salient roles: work, home, and military reserve, and found consistent support for enactment preference of a highly salient third role across multiple roles, protection preference of highly salient roles against permeations from a third role, and the dominance of the enactment effect as compared to the protection effect.
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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.
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Acts of meaning
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