Work–life interface

About: Work–life interface is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 71 publications have been published within this topic receiving 13964 citations.

Work-Family Guilt: The Perspective of Secondary School Athletic Trainers With Children

Abstract: CONTEXT The literature in athletic training has consistently demonstrated evidence of work-family-life conflict and the potential consequences of that conflict among athletic trainers (ATs) employed in the clinical setting. Parental responsibilities have been suggested to increase the conflict among work, family, and life. The emotions that occur because of this conflict have received little attention and warrant further study. OBJECTIVE To investigate perceptions and antecedents of work-family guilt (WFG) among secondary school ATs with children. DESIGN Phenomenological qualitative study. SETTING Secondary schools. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS Twenty (13 women, 7 men) ATs with children (range = 1-3) employed in the secondary school setting. All but 3 were married (n = 17) at the time of the study. Their average age was 37 ± 11 years, and they were certified as ATs for 14 ± 11 years. DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS Participants completed one-on-one semistructured phone interviews. Multiple-analyst triangulation and peer review were used to establish data credibility. RESULTS General inductive analysis revealed that men and women participants experienced feelings of WFG despite having supportive work environments. The guilt for both sexes stemmed from work interfering with family and an altruistic mindset. Women indicated they felt pressure from their husbands that contributed to feelings of guilt. CONCLUSIONS Secondary school ATs experienced WFG. Trying to balance parental and athletic training duties can cause an emotional response, and ATs' giving and caring nature may be a precursor to guilt.

A time for renewal: developing a sustainable community, work and family interface

Abstract: This special issue provides a selection of papers presented at the 7 Community Work and Family Conference, which was held in Milan, Italy, on May 24-27, 2017. More than 160 scholars from various disciplines and from different countries all over the world gathered at the Conference to engage in a discussion on the development of a sustainable community, work and family interface. The concept of sustainable development has gradually come to the forefront of policy debate since the late 1980s/early 1990s, against a backdrop of rapidly increasing global ecological challenges (WCED, 1987). Even though a straightforward and commonly agreed definition still does not exist, sustainable development has soon become a popular term and a prominent policy goal. Based on the recognition of the limits and threats to the environment of the prevalent modes of production and consumption, the concept has evolved over time around the necessity of a paradigm shift, which could prevent the depletion and loss of resources and reconcile economic growth with environmental protection and human well-being (UNDP, 2011, 2013). In these terms, promoting and achieving sustainable development requires creating and maintaining a set of resources so that the quality of the environment, in both its ecological and human dimensions, could be ensured and preserved, for present and future generations. Accordingly, the conventional notion of sustainable development encompasses a few primary concerns, that range from safeguarding the environment to satisfying basic human needs and promoting interand intra-generational equity (Holden et al., 2014). The principles and goals of the sustainable development model may be used to investigate the community, work and family interface. That implies studying the capacity of the community, work and family ecosystem to enable people meeting their fundamental needs and thriving in different life domains and to secure social equality between and within generations in terms of resources and opportunities (e.g. Eurofound, 2015; Kossek et al., 2014; Lewis and Cooper, 1999; Van Engen et al., 2012). Previous research has clearly shown that welfare state reforms, demographic challenges, changing family and household structure, the shifting nature of work and the workplace are serious threats to individual, family, and community well-being. In fact, if not properly managed, these overarching trends may adversely affect the development of meaningful relationships between work and non-work domains, hamper organizational effectiveness, spread inequalities, threaten social cohesion, and lead to an overconsumption of economic and human (i.e. individual, family and social) resources. Therefore, recasting work, family and community settings, as well as their interface, in a sustainable manner is a serious challenge. The papers within this special issue address this challenge from different theoretical standpoints and using different methodological approaches. They raise questions about what policy initiatives, at both national and workplace level, may be introduced to best support the development of a sustainable community, work and family interface. They also lay the groundwork for future research on the issue of sustainability and

Introduction of the Concept of Work/Life Harmony Constructs of the Work/ Life Interface: A Synthesis of the Literature and

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to identify construct definitions and measurement tools for the work/life interface concepts: conflict, enrichment, and balance. An understand-ing of these concepts is critical to HRD professionals because interventions designed to counter work/life interface issues cannot be strategically created, and culture changes cannot be effectively addressed until the discipline understands the nature and the organizational implications of employees’ work/life interface. A new construct called work/life harmony and the work/life harmony model are introduced to aid in the understanding of the work/life interface. Keywords work/life issues, management, researchThe attainment of work/life (family) balance continues to be the mythical quality standard not only for individuals in the workforce but also for the organizations that employ them. Work/life issues impact everyone, regardless of their education level, gender, income level, family structure, occupation, race, age, job status, or religion. A major deterrent to employee job performance is stress associated with juggling work and personal life. Recent work done by Lockwood (2003) found that more than 70% of employees report

Roles of work-home balance skill and accommodation strategies for satisfaction at work-home interface

Abstract: In this research we investigated the moderating role of the work-home balance skill and the work-home accommodation strategies on the relationship between the emotions at work-home interface and satisfactions and mental health among Romanian workers. We firstly hypothesized that, in the relationship between the experience of work-home interface’s negative emotions and the outcomes referring to satisfaction and health, the skill in work-home balance and the work-home accommodation strategies have an opposed function. We assumed the former might act to enhance satisfaction and inhibit illness. Secondly, we hypothesized that this skill in work-home balance will probably moderate the negative effect of prolonged working hours on the satisfaction with workhome balance. We tested the hypotheses through structural equation modeling and the ANOVA method in a representative sample of 277 Romanian workers (age range 21-65). The results supported both hypotheses. We conclude that it is important that people should use the work-home accommodation strategies to the minimum and accumulate the work-home balance skills.