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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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Control on the ‘Boundary-Work’ in Work-Life Articulation for Flexible Knowledge Workers. Insights into Gender Asymmetries
TL;DR: In this paper, a discourse analysis was conducted on 37 qualitative interviews with knowledge workers who handle job flexibility and insecurity and who have care responsibilities to uphold at home, and the results show that the permeability and flexibility of new productive practices, often presented in neoliberal economy as new opportunities for knowledge workers, especially if they are female, are experienced differently by men and women: for men they represent a new control source, whereas for women they constitute a fictitious, if not constricting, process.
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Enhancing Coach-Parent Relationships in Youth Sports: Increasing Harmony and Minimizing Hassle: A Commentary
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the core ideas of the working relationship characterised within the "athletic triangle" and draw inspiration from the idea that relationships provide the essential subsoil from which most of human productivity grows.
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Do Labmates Matter? The Relative Importance of Workplace Climate and Work-Life Satisfaction in Women Scientists’ Job Satisfaction
TL;DR: Workplace climate and work-life balance are two factors that influence women's decisions to leave or remain in a science workplace as discussed by the authors, while unmitigated worklife conflict may tip the balance for women's satisfaction.
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Who Benefits More from a Balanced life? Gender Differences in Work-life Balance and Satisfaction with Life in Eight Post-communist Countries
Dóra Bari,Péter Róbert +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the gender differences in the relationship between perceived tension with work-life balance and satisfaction with life in eight post-communist regions (the Czech Republic, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine).
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A critical reflection on the introduction and implementation of a homeworking policy in a United Kingdom government department
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a critical reflection on the introduction and implementation of a homeworking policy in a United Kingdom Government Department from the perspective of managers and employees, and find that despite the clear expectation of homeworking set out in the policy the desired outcome was not achieved.
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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.