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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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Effect of Job Status, Gender, and Employees’ Achievement Motivation Behavior on Work Performance: a Case Study of Selected Local Government Employees in Ekiti State, Nigeria
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of job status, gender, and employees' achievement motivation behavior on work performance was investigated and it was recommended that efforts should be made to discourage discriminative behavior among sexes while also closing gaps in level managers' hierarchies and categorizations.
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Women's job quality across family life stages: An analysis of female employees across 27 European countries
Agnieszka Piasna,Anke C. Plagnol +1 more
TL;DR: This paper examined how family life stages are related to particular aspects of job quality among employed women in 27 European countries and found that mothers with young children are more likely to hold high-quality jobs than women at other life stages with respect to working time quality and job security, but with some variation across countries for job security.
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Information Communication Technology and Employee Well-Being: Understanding the “iParadox Triad” at Work
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Work–Family Balance Choices of Women Working in Kenyan Universities
TL;DR: Examination of work–family balance options of women working in Kenyan universities within the context of changing national domestic workers’ legislation showed that as the cost of hiring domestic workers increased, women became indifferent in their choice between employing domestic workers and using daycare centers.
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Work-Life Balance of Women Leaders in the Association of Theological Schools
TL;DR: The work-life balance among successful women leaders in ATS-accredited schools provides an important first step in balancing, and indeed enriching, the leadership in theological education.
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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
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.