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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"work-family balance"”.
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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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Managing Multiple Identities: A Qualitative Study of Nurses and Implications for Work-Family Balance
… identities can have significant implications for work-family balance. This is particularly true for nurses, who have a strong sense of professional identity and may be likely to experience work-family tensions. By framing work-family tensions as related to identity, we can see the ways in which …
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Managing Multiple Identities: A Qualitative Study of Nurses and Implications for Work-Family Balance
… identities can have significant implications for work-family balance. This is particularly true for nurses, who have a strong sense of professional identity and may be likely to experience work-family tensions. By framing work-family tensions as related to identity, we can see the ways in which …
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A study of work-family balance policies and practices for returning nursing mothers in the Nigerian banking industry
… force, there has been a growing literature on working women handling multiple roles arising from work and family. Presently there is a gap in the literature about the activities of the returning nursing mothers in the developing countries, with theories and most findings concentrated on studies …
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The relationship between the use of flexible workplace arrangements and satisfaction with work-family balance amongst working fathers
… the relationship between the use of flexible work arrangements and satisfaction with work-family balance amongst working fathers in South Africa. Two types of flexible work arrangements were examined. Formal flexible work arrangements included flextime, flexplace and paternity leave. Informal …
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The work-family balance experiences of production couples operating Chinese Cut, Make and Trim factories in Newcastle, South Africa
… to develop a deep understanding into the unique work family balance experiences of women in production couples in cut, make and trim factories in Newcastle, South Africa. A production couple is first and foremost a business partnership that involves joint ownership of a clothing factory, however …
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Work-Family Conflict of Hungarian Manager Fathers = Munka és család közötti konfliktus a magyar menedzser férfiak életében
… to contribute to the Hungarian literature on the work-family interface by analysing manager fathers and the work-family conflicts they perceive. The dissertation was structured along the three types of work-family conflict, time-based, behaviour-based and strain-based conflict, also including the …
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The Deinstitutionalization of Marriage and Family among the Academic Elite: The Marriage, Family, and Career Expectations of PhD Seeking Women and Men
Most sociological approaches to understanding work/family balance focus exclusively on behavior, examining how employed mothers negotiate marriage, family, and career obligations. Drawing on the socially constructed notion that these obligations are incompatible, much of this literature assumes …
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The Balancing Act: Work Environment Issues for Women with Children in Student Affairs
… in the past two decades, student affairs work at American's universities has been undertaken by women. This work with the co-curricular life of the students in higher education requires administrators at all levels to have a flexible schedule with the ability to commit evenings and …
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Fathers’ Uptake of Parental Leave in South Korea: Determinants and Aftermaths
… take leave contribute significantly more to housework and childcare than their counterparts. Moreover, the mothers of leave-taking fathers report lower intentions for a second child and significantly greater work-family conflict. The second paper assesses whether fathers’ uptake of parental leave …
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EFFECTS OF ON-CALL WORK ON PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORKERS
… attempted to examine the effects of on-call work schedules on professional social workers. This was achieved through the use of a demographic survey and qualitative face-to-face and phone interviews. A total of 15 interview questions were explored, the subjects included: the impacts of …
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Understanding students' decision to proceed with hybrid education: Examining the post-COVID-19 scenario
… well as general acceptance patterns through frameworks such as the technology acceptance model and the theory of planned behavior, critical gaps remain in identifying the factors shaping students’ behavioral intentions toward this educational model. This study addresses these gaps by analyzing the …
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Work-Life Balance Among Working Married Women: What Social Workers Need to Know
<p>This project explored the way working mothers cope with home, work, family demands as well as self-care. It mainly focused on the balance they have been able to achieve in their lives as working women, wife, and mothers. This study used qualitative research to examine the challenges these women …
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When workplace family-support is misallocated: The importance of value congruence and fairness perceptions in predicting work-family conflict and job attitudes
To better manage our work demands and family demands, we often erect mental or physical “borders” to help us provide order to our experience. However, the preference for how we preserve these borders differs across individuals (i.e., preference to segment or integrate work and family roles). …
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Applying Leadership Theory to the Work-Family Interface: Examining the Interactive Effects of Family Supportive Supervisor Behaviors and Leader-Member Exchange Quality
<p>Extant work-family research has traditionally looked at the role of the supervisor in diminishing work-family conflict using a supervisor support framework. The current study draws from recent trends that look past perceptions of support and contend that leadership can be used as a lens through …
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There’s a dad for that! : Naming men in work-life balance and entrepreneurial decision-making
This thesis explores work-family balance in relation to entrepreneurial decision-making using men and masculinities literature as the lens of critical analysis. This research critically examines men’s subjective work-life balance experiences by evaluating their attempts to navigate between their …
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Negotiating Gender and Bureaucracy: Female Managers in Indonesia's Ministry of Finance
… organisations with an exploration of women’s work/family balance. This thesis develops such a combined approach. It draws on a range of data sources including interviews with 121 MOF employees, personal observation and documents. The analysis compares gendered practice within three different …
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Internal Market Orientation and Customer Orientation: Effects on Service Employees and Customer Experience
… practices, such as support, communication, and work-family balance affect employee behaviour and subsequently the experience of the customer. Combining organisational and customer perspectives, a conceptual framework linking IMO, CX, and COSE was developed, addressing gaps in existing research. …
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