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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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The impacts of work-life-balance (WLB) challenges on social sustainability: the experience of Nigerian female medical doctors
Rahman Mushfiqur,Chima Mordi,Emeka Smart Oruh,Uzoechi Nwagbara,Tonbara Mordi,Itari Mabel Turner +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the implications of work-life-balance challenges for female medical doctors in Nigeria and highlighted the previously understudied challenges of WLB and SS and their implications for female doctors.
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Who am I? Mothers’ shifting identities, loss and sensemaking after workplace exit
Shireen Kanji,Emma Cahusac +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse mothers' retrospective accounts of their transition from professional worker to stay-at-home mother using a framework that integrates sensemaking and border theory, and find that mothers cope with this loss and the disjuncture of leaving employment by moving back and forth across the border between home and work.
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Work-Life Balance in Great Companies and Pending Issues for Engaging New Generations at Work.
M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández,Óscar R. González-López,María Buenadicha-Mateos,Juan Luis Tato-Jiménez +3 more
TL;DR: The main contribution of this work is the development of a weighted index for benchmarking purposes considering the preferences of new generations at work, which demonstrates that the best companies still report low levels of work-life balance information.
An exploration of Generation Y's experiences of offshore fly-in/fly-out employment
TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study explored the experiences of Gen Y employed offshore in a fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) capacity using a social constructionist framework and found that even though the men were satisfied with benefits associated with the lifestyle there were none the less many challenges which they were attempting to address that were specific to the lifestyle generally and not unique to Gen Y.
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Influences on the provision of work–life benefits: Management and employee perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and examine the influences on the provision of WLB in an organisation, identifying the potential for different goals and agenda, and propose that it is necessary to understand the perspectives of work-life benefits held by managers and by employees.
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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.