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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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Has the Economic Lockdown Following the Covid-19 Pandemic Changed the Gender Division of Labor in Israel?
TL;DR: The economic shutdown and national lockdown following the outbreak of COVID-19 have increased demand for unpaid work at home, particularly among families with children, and reduced demand for paid work at work as mentioned in this paper.
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Work–family interface in the context of career success: A qualitative inquiry:
TL;DR: The authors explored the lived experiences of 28 distinguished professors who were among the top 2-5% of scholars in their field, to provide an in-depth understanding of their WFI and the prominent factors affecting it over their careers.
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Work-Life Balance in the Digital Workplace: The Impact of Schedule Flexibility and Telecommuting on Work-Life Balance and Overall Life Satisfaction
Dong Jin Lee,M. Joseph Sirgy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theoretical model of work-life balance specific to the digital workplace and discussed two characteristics of the digital workspace: schedule flexibility and telecommuting.
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Labour geographies of India’s new service economy
Al James,Bhaskar Vira +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings from a regional labour mobility survey of 439 call centre workers in India's National Capital Region (May 2007) and discuss the productive and social reproductive factors that underpin these patterns of Indian call centre worker agency, and their mediation by a complex nexus of labour market intermediaries beyond the firm.
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Work–Life Balance in the Police: The Development of a Self-Management Competency Framework
Almuth McDowall,A. Lindsay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Hoffmann et al. used a mixed methods approach starting with semi-structured interviews to elicit 134 distinct behaviors and used a subsequent card sort task (n = 10) to group these into categories into 12 behavioral themes.
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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.