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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.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored factors relating to the work-life interface of a sample of hospital doctors and found that female doctors were more likely to experience job burnout than male doctors, while women tend to rely on different forms of social support from men to alleviate burnout and reduce the likelihood of leaving their job.
Abstract: Long and unsociable hours and intensive work pressure have been dominant features of the medical profession, especially in hospital work. The increased presence of women in medical occupations, however, has stimulated debate about the nature and consequences of such work practices on doctors' wellbeing. Against the backdrop of this debate the article explores how factors relating to the work–lfe interface affect the wellbeing of a sample of hospital doctors. A key aim is to assess whether gender differences are discernible in the pattern of factors associated with perceptions of job burnout and intentions to quit. The research suggests that female doctors were more likely to experience job burnout than male doctors. It also shows that aspects of the work–life interface affect the wellbeing of all doctors but women tend to rely on different forms of social support from men to alleviate burnout and reduce the likelihood of leaving their job.
65 citations
TL;DR: Work-life constructs from the West must be conceptualized and operationalized differently when used in the Asian context as mentioned in this paper, and a growing body of empirical work on the work-life interface in Asia has investigated the effects of various worklife constructs on work and non-work outcomes.
52 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of employee usage of seven organizational work-life interface benefits on promotions and found that using these benefits is not a career-limiting move, indicating that conservation of time and energy resources for employees outweigh the initial short-term negative effects of signaling and stigmatization.
Abstract: Summary Using a large national sample based on Workplace and Employee Survey data collected by Statistics Canada in 2001 and 2002, we examined the effects of employee usage of seven organizational work–life interface benefits on promotions. Analysis predicted promotions in 2002 when number of promotions received by 2001 were controlled. The main effect of using work–life interface benefits on promotions was positive, indicating that using these benefits is not a career-limiting move. Gender, presence of young children, and marital status interacted with the use of work–life interface benefits. Single parents benefitted less than other employees from using work–life interface options. Altogether, these findings suggest that the ongoing positive effects of conservation of time and energy resources for employees outweigh the initial short-term negative effects of signaling and stigmatization. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
40 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that knowledge workers are empowered and enslaved by mobile devices that bring work into the home, and family into the workplace, and the interface between work and life is now blurred and boundaryless for knowledge workers.
Abstract: In the last decade, knowledge workers have seen tremendous change in ways of working and living, driven by proliferating mobile communication technologies, the rise of dual-income couples, shifting expectations of ideal motherhood and involved fatherhood, and the rise of flexible working arrangements. Drawing on 54 interviews with Australian knowledge workers in the information technology sector, we argue that the interface between work and life is now blurred and boundaryless for knowledge workers. By this, we mean that knowledge workers are empowered and enslaved by mobile devices that bring work into the home, and family into the workplace. Knowledge workers take advantage of flexible working to craft unique, personal arrangements to suit their work, family, personal and community pursuits. They choose where and when to work, often interweaving the work domain and the home-family domain multiple times per day. Teleworkers, for example, attain rapid boundary transitions rending the work-home boundary, thus making their experience of the work-life interface boundaryless.
30 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how country economic and political contexts are related to processes that occur in the work-life interface of women entrepreneurs and found that the likelihood of total family support decreases linearly as the country development level increases.
27 citations