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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “"work-family"”.
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Understanding the Importance of Work-Family Supportive Coworkers in Navigating the Work-Family Interface
Coworkers can play an important role in helping each other overcome stressful circumstances (Beehr, Jex, Stacy, & Murray, 2000; LaRocco & Jones, 1978; Viswesvaran, Sanchez, & Fisher, 1999), yet work-family researchers have paid significantly less attention to coworker-provided support than they …
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Work-Family Conflict Chinese Style
This thesis aimed to examine work-family conflict within China by conducting two studies. This thesis utilised 536 participants, 16 of whom participated in the semi-structured online interviews of Study 1 which explored the lived experience of work-family conflict in China. A further 520 …
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Comparing models of work-family relations
This study examines the work-family environment to compare three theories of work-family relations. These three theories are spillover, compensation and segmentation. In the spillover theory, one environment (work or family) spills into the other environment (family or work), negative emotions will …
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Work–Family Conflict in Low-Income Households
… of employers and only a few states offer Paid Family Leave benefits. The FMLA was established to protect workers from losing their jobs in case they needed to care for an elderly person or for their children. However, since value is not placed in family structures there has not been much …
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Work-family conflict and well-being among employed women in Malaysia: The roles of coping and work-family facilitation
… gender roles. Women’s participation in work and family domains indicates their struggles in juggling multiple roles and incompatible demands from both domains. Under these circumstances, they may experience conflict between work and family domains. However, women’s involvement in …
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Work-Family-School Conflict Among Non-traditional Students
<p>Research is scarce on the subject of work-family-school (WFS) conflict for nontraditional students. This study assessed the relationship between non-traditional students’ age, gender, and perceived level of support and their level of WFS conflict. It was predicted that older students would …
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Time-Based Work-Family Conflict: Myth or Reality?
… present study examined a time-based model of work-family conflict for a sample of 176 working women with childcare responsibilities. Building on the work of Edwards and Rothbard (2000) and role theory, a model was proposed to test the specific variables that define time-based work-family …
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The nature and outcomes of work-family enrichment
This study examined the nature and outcomes of work-family enrichment amongst South African retail employees (N = 336). Exploratory factor analysis evidenced the multi-dimensionality of work-family enrichment, its bi-directionality, and its distinctiveness from work-family conflict. Hierarchical …
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Positive work-family spillover amongst white-collar employees
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 62-67).
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The nature and antecedents of work-family enrichment
… is to identify and examine the antecedents of work-family enrichment. Data gathered from 221 participants employed at a South African FMCG enterprise showed that two personality characteristics, positive affectivity and self-efficacy helped predict both directions of work-family enrichment …
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Work - family conflict among women from a collectivistic culture
This study investigated how Work-Family Conflict was related to Role Salience and Job level (investigated in terms of the amount of job demand and job control associated with different job levels) among women from a Collectivistic culture. A sample of 65 teachers was used. Although the results of …
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Work-family balance and religion: a resource based perspective
It is increasingly recognized that work and family roles do not represent fully separate life domains (Voydanoff, 2004). This is one reason, why occupational health researchers and practitioners are working to understand and facilitate balance between work and nonwork roles. Most existing …
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Work-family conflict among Hindu fathers in South Africa
This research examined work-family conflict among Hindu fathers in South Africa. Various authors have indicated that work-family conflict should be investigated in specific cultural contexts because the demands of work and family differ across various cultures. This research examined the …
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Work-family enrichment and well-being amongst working fathers
This study examined the relationship between work-family enrichment and well-being amongst working fathers in South Africa (N= 242). Convenience sampling was first employed as approval was granted from human resource managers and directors from several organisations in order to survey their …
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The relationship between job characteristics and work family enrichment
… examined job characteristics as antecedents of work-family enrichment amongst full time employees in an investment company in South Africa (N = 129). Contrary to expectations of work family enrichment having three underlying dimensions, an exploratory factor analysis revealed a unidimensional …
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The relationship between job characteristics and work family enrichment
… examined job characteristics as antecedents of work-family enrichment amongst full time employees in an investment company in South Africa (N = 129). Contrary to expectations of work family enrichment having three underlying dimensions, an exploratory factor analysis revealed a unidimensional …
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Work-family enrichment amongst manufacturing workers in South Africa
This study examines work-family enrichment among manufacturing workers within the South Africa. It further investigates whether family-friendly supervisory support and family-supportive benefits and services positively influence work-family enrichment. Self-report questionnaires were distributed by …
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A multi-sample confirmatory factor analysis of work-family conflict
The large-scale entrance of women into the workforce over the past two decades has fundamentally changed the nature of work and family life. This trend has been associated with a constellation of emerging challenges and conflicts in balancing work and family spheres. Gutek, Searle, and Klepa (1991) …
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Work-family responsibilities and support for women academics in Pakistan
… of negotiation between professional and family responsibilities – in an Islamic nation, shaped by an imperial history. In particular it investigated both the possibilities and limitations of family and institutional support as women worked to fulfil both work and family responsibilities. …
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