ISBN:
9783642161995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Business and Economics Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DDC:
306.3/61
Keywords:
Economics
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Animal behavior
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Personnel management
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Sociology
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Personalpolitik
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Hochqualifizierter Beruf
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
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Work-Life-Balance
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Arbeitszufriedenheit
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Humankapital
;
Work-Life-Balance
Abstract:
A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today's human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as 'extreme workers' regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and 'the rest of life'. This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.
Description / Table of Contents:
Creating Balance?; Foreword; Introduction; Contents; Contributors; Part I Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals; Chapter 1 Integrating Professional Work and Life: Conditions, Outcomes and Resources; Chapter 2 Introducing Theoretical Approaches to Work-Life Balance and Testing a New Typology Among Professionals; Chapter 3 From `Balancers' to `Integrators'? Young Professionals' Talk About `Work' and the Rest of `Life' in the UK; Chapter 4 Redefining Success: The Foundation for Creating Work-Life Balance
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Antecedents and Consequences Related to Professionals Work-Life IntegrationChapter 5 Personality and Work-Life Integration; Chapter 6 Potential Antecedents and Consequences of Work-Family Conflict: A Three Country Study; Chapter 7 Work-Family Balance, Role Integration and Employee Well-Being; Part III Mothers, Fathers, and Couples: Challenging Conventional Wisdom; Chapter 8 What to Expect When Shes Expecting; Chapter 9 Fatherhood and Flexible Working: A Contradiction inINTtie; Terms?; Chapter 10 Dual-Career Couples: Specific ChallengesINTnl; for Work-Life Integration
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV Corporate Strategies Facilitating Work-Life IntegrationChapter 11 Corporate Work-Life Balance Initiatives: Use and Effectiveness; Chapter 12 Temporal Workplace Flexibility and Associated Work-Life Outcomes for Professionals; Chapter 13 Causes and Consequences of the Utilization of Work-Life Policies by Professionals: Unconditional Supervisor Support Required; Part V Boundary Issues of Professionals Work-Life Integration; Chapter 14 The Pressures of Commitment: Taking Software Home
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15 The ``Myth of Separate Worlds'': An Exploration of How Mobile Technology has Redefined Work-Life BalanceChapter 16 Working in Polycontextual Environments: An Empirical Analysis of Flexpatriates' Lifestyles; Chapter 17 Spatial Aspects of Professionals' Work-Life Integration; About the Authors; Index
Note:
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5
URL:
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