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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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When family considerations influence work decisions: Decision-making processes
TL;DR: The work-family literature has provided an abundance of evidence that various family factors are linked to various work decisions, suggesting that the "family-relatedness" of work decisions is a prevalent phenomenon as mentioned in this paper.
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What happened to the border? The role of mobile information technology devices on employees' work-life balance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of mobile information technology devices (MITDs) on employees' work-life balance (WLB) and highlighted the important role of MITDs in terms of the attainment of flexibility, which is significant for achieving WLB.
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The moderating effect of work-linked couple relationships and work-family integration on the spouse instrumental support-emotional exhaustion relationship.
Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben,Kelly L. Zellars,Dawn S. Carlson,Pamela L. Perrewé,Denise M. Rotondo +4 more
TL;DR: It is argued that employees with a spouse in the same occupation or workplace (referred to as work-linked couples) enhance the effectiveness of spousal instrumental support in reducing emotional exhaustion.
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Coping with coping strategies: how distributed teams and their members deal with the stress of distance, time zones and culture
TL;DR: It is proposed that distributed team members rely heavily on individual coping resources, because spatial and temporal distance hinders or even precludes the mobilization of social resources related to emotional, instrumental and informational social support.
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Beyond conflict: the role of life-domain enrichment for expatriates
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of life-domain enrichment on expatriates' assignments and found that life domain enrichment accounted for variance in job satisfaction, turnover intentions and accomplishment of role-related expectations, beyond what was accounted for by life domain conflict.
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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
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