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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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Drivers of context-specific ICT use across work and nonwork domains: A boundary theory perspective
TL;DR: Using theories from work/nonwork literature, a renewed view is presented to predict context-specific ICT use beyond the traditional models to suggest that different drivers may be affecting the four contexts of I CT use.
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The impact of neighborhood composition on work-family conflict and distress.
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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of neighborhood social composition on work-family conflict (WFC) and mental health remains limited because they emphasize individual-level antecedents to the exclusion of broader contexts, such as residential neighborhoods.
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A Study on Work Life Balance in Working Women
TL;DR: In India, entrepreneurship has traditionally been considered a male prerogative as discussed by the authors, and women have started recognizing their inherent talents and business skills, and with the help of various governmental and non-governmental agencies, growing numbers of women are joining the ranks of entrepreneurs.
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Workplace Technology and the Creation of Boundaries The Role of VHRD in a 24/7 Work Environment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how work-life balance and workplace technology interact to affect the lives of employees and recommend that attention to worklife balance become part of practice when human resource development professionals design virtual learning or help develop workplace technologies and policies.
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The mediating effect of work–life balance on the relationship between work–family conflict and life satisfaction:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a scale of work-life balance for Turkish working women and men and investigated the mediating effect of work and life balance on Turkish women's and men's health.
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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.