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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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A new normal? Competing national cultural discourses and workers’ constructions of identity and meaningful work in Norway
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how conceptions of identity and meaningful work are influenced by a nation's changing economic and political environment, and suggest that work's meaningfulness is constructed by competing national cultural discourses that evolve over time.
Academic dual-career couples lifetyle affects on careers in academe
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A psychometric examination of the work-family balance scale. A multisample study on Italian workers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Work-Family Balance scale (Carlson et al. 2009) through two different studies, one to verify the construct validity of the scale, while the other study was carried out to verify its discriminant validity contrasting it with work-family conflict and enrichment.
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Changed Landscape, Unchanged Norms: Work-Family Conflict and the Persistence of the Academic Mother Ideal.
Karyn E. Miller,Jacqueline Riley +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how academic mothers experienced their dual roles amid the unprecedented shift in the work-life landscape due to COVID-19, concluding that ideal worker and mothering expectations have long constrained academic mothers' personal and professional choices.
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Work and Home: balancing the considerations and considering the balance
TL;DR: In this paper, the mediational role of both work-home interference and home-work interference between demands and job burnout was investigated. But, the authors did not consider the effect of gender on these mediations.
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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.