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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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The effects of work-family interface on domain-specific satisfaction and well-being across nations: The moderating effects of individualistic culture and economic development.
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of how the effects of WFC/WFE on various outcomes differ across different national cultures and economic settings suggested that employees in more individualistic and more developed countries are more sensitive to how work interferes with family life, whereas employees in less individualist and less developed nations are moresensitive toHow work provides material, social, and cognitive resources.
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Bed-and-Breakfast Innkeepers in the United States: When the Boundary Between Work and Personal Life is Blurred
TL;DR: The authors investigated bed-and-breakfast innkeepers' perceptions of the balance between work and personal life, as well as their interaction, and found that most Bed-and Breakfasts maintain a satisfactory balance between the two dimensions more than interfering with it.
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The Role of Economic Development and Perceived Growth Opportunities in Employee Reactions to M&As: A Study of the Merger Syndrome Across 29 Countries
Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl,Stav Fainshmidt,Juan I. Sanchez,Everlyne Misati,Yue Zhao,Haiyan Zhang +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the economic institutions literature and on transactional stress theory to explain differences in employee reactions to mergers and acquisitions (M&As) across 29 nations.
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Perceptions of time at work: Why the clock ticks differently for men and women when they are not working at work
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined gender differences and motivations behind personal activities employees do at work, as well as individuals' perception of the time they spend doing these activities, and found that during a five-working-day period of eight hours per day, individuals spent around 58 minutes doing personal activities.
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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.