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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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Exploring the experiences of the self-employed teleworkers in managing border between work and family towards a balanced life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the experience encountered by the self-employed teleworkers and looked into the factors that influenced them in managing the boundary to balance work and family life, in order to understand the nature of the interactions between work and home.
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‘You’re thrown in the deep end’: adult learner identity formation in higher education
James Brunton,Finian Buckley +1 more
TL;DR: For many adult learners transitioning into higher education is an intense experience that challenges their sense of self-worth and self-confidence as mentioned in this paper, a study reported on a study that examined the discourse of thirty...
Those Who Just Said “NO!”: Career-Life Decisions of Middle Management Women in Student Affairs Administration
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the experiences of six female middle managers in student affairs who, while otherwise qualified with experience and an earned doctorate, turned down the opportunity to serve as vice president of student affairs, and found that personal and professional reasons led each to make a conscious decision to forgo the next step on the student affairs career ladder and remain in their current, middle management position.
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General mental ability, conscientiousness, and the work–family interface: A test of mediating pathways
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that conscientiousness did not influence work-family outcomes through occupational prestige, whereas GMA and conscientiousness were both related to work-to-family conflict and enrichment through their relationship with occupational prestige and coping styles.
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Creating home at work: humanistic geography and placemaking in organizations
TL;DR: This article explored the positive connotations associated with home from humanistic geography and Western culture and explored the relationship between home and culture in the context of homemedia and home-from-humanistic geography.
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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.