scholarly journals Provjera faktorske strukture hrvatske verzije upitnika „Fleksibilnost granica radne i obiteljske uloge“

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Maja Laklija ◽  
Slavica Blažeka Kokorić ◽  
Gordana Berc
Keyword(s):  
Factor Structure ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Cronbach Alpha ◽  
Job Requirements ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Employed Parents ◽  
Ability And Willingness

FACTORS’ STRUCTURE OF CROATIAN VERSION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE »BOUNDARY FLEXIBILITY OF WORK AND FAMILY ROLE The aim of this paper was to verify the factor structure and metric characteristics of the Croatian version of the questionnaire »Boundary Flexibility« (Matthews & Barnes-Farrell, 2010.). The survey was conducted on a convenient sample of 187 employed parents of underage children. In the data analysis, factor analysis and Spearman correlation coefficient were used. The three-factor structure of the questionnaire was obtained: the first factor »Family plans adjustment to the job requirements« contains six items (Cronbach alfa = 0.891), indicating readiness of respondents to adjust family plans to job requirements. The second factor in »Job requirements adjustment to the family role« (Cronbach alpha = 0.814) contains eight items, which point out the ability and willingness of respondents to adjust their job requirements to family obligations. The third factor, »Possibility of increased engagement at work without major difficulties in performing family obligations«, contains four items (Cronbach alpha = 0.784), and refers to the respondents’ ability to meet increased demands at work, without adverse effects and significant difficulties in the family role. Given that the extracted sub-scales are not fully matched to the factor structure of the original questionnaire, the obtained results point out to certain specifics in the application of the Croatian version of this questionnaire. Verification of the metric characteristics has shown the satisfactory reliability of the obtained sub-scales and the possibility of further application of this instrument. Key words: work-family role balance, boundary flexibility, metric characteristics of the questionnaire.

Meaningful Work and Family

2019 ◽  
pp. 403-416
Author(s):  
Evgenia I. Lysova
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Role Salience ◽  
Harmonious Passion ◽  
Obsessive Passion ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual

Experiencing one’s work as meaningful is often assumed to benefit the individual, yet some scholars suggest that meaningful work can also be a very challenging experience, requiring individual sacrifice. These sacrifices may be borne by the family of the individual. The chapter reviews and integrates research on meaningful work, calling, and work–family interplay to better understand how the pursuit of meaningful work impacts one’s family. In so doing, it challenges overly positive perspectives on the outcomes of meaningful work, while revealing the scarcity of empirical research on the topic. To stimulate future research, person-related conditions are discussed, such as family role salience and identification, and harmonious passion and obsessive passion, in facilitating positive versus negative spillover between the work and family domain. The chapter concludes with a discussion of organization-related conditions shaping how meaningful work influences one’s family.

scholarly journals Action Regulation at the Work–Family Interface: Nomological Network and Work–Family Consequences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hirschi ◽  
Nicola von Allmen ◽  
Anne Burmeister ◽  
Hannes Zacher
Keyword(s):  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Family Social Support ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Role Demands

AbstractPursuing personally valued goals in work and family is important for many people, yet research has only partially addressed how individuals can actively manage the work–family interface. We examined the role of action regulation at the work–family interface (AR-WF) as an integrated individual-level approach to attain favorable work–family outcomes through the selection and pursuit of goals at the work–family interface. We investigated the relation of AR-WF to theoretically derived correlates and outcomes in two time-lagged studies with samples from the USA and Germany, based on a newly developed and validated measure to assess AR-WF. Overall, results showed that AR-WF is positively related to dispositional self-regulation, work and family role commitment, work and family goal regulation, and work and family social support. In contrast, AR-WF was largely unrelated to work and family role demands and segmentation or integration boundary enactment. AR-WF further positively related to work and family goal attainment, as well as work–family enrichment beyond related constructs. However, AR-WF was also positively related to increased work-to-family conflict. We discuss how a focus on action regulation can be useful for attaining a better understanding of the active role that people play in managing multiple role demands at the work–family interface.

scholarly journals A Matter of Love: Exploring What Enables Work-family Enrichment

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Sowon Kim ◽  
Mireia Las Heras ◽  
Maria Jose Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Business School ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
The Other ◽  
Executive Education ◽  
Family Resources ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Work Family Enrichment ◽  
Family Enrichment

<p>The purpose of this empirical study is to examine the conditions under which work-family enrichment happens. We conducted a total of 30 interviews with managers (and their spouses) participating in a demanding executive education program at a prestigious business school in Spain in order to explore how work and family resources are generated and transferred from one role to the other. Based on the qualitative results, we developed a model and surveyed 302 Chilean employees across an organization in the industrial sector in order to test our preliminary results in the qualitative stage. In our qualitative study, we find that there is a unique resource generated only in the family domain, which we define as “agape love” that contributes to enrichment. Our quantitative study confirms that, the more individuals experience agape love from spouse and children, the more the family enriches the employee’s work life.<strong></strong></p>

Work and Family

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
MacKenna L. Perry ◽  
Leslie B. Hammer
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
The Family ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Work Family Enrichment ◽  
Work Domain ◽  
Family Enrichment

Study of the intersection of work with nonwork components of individuals’ lives has most often focused on roles within nuclear and extended families but is increasingly focused on nonwork domains beyond family, such as roles within friendships, communities, leisure activities, and the self. In line with the focus of most existing literature on the family-specific domain within nonwork lives, the nonwork domain will generally be referred to here as “family.” One popular conceptualization of linking mechanisms between work and family differentiates between work-family conflict or stress, which occurs when a work role and a nonwork role are not fully compatible and results in some type of physical or psychological strain. Alternatively, work-family enrichment occurs when participation in one role benefits life in the other role. Concepts similar to work-family enrichment include work-family positive spillover and work-family facilitation; all emphasize the ways in which one role can positively impact another role. Additionally, the popular concept of work-family balance highlights either a state of low conflict and high enrichment or the presence of effectiveness and satisfaction in both roles. Broadly speaking, the links between work and family are bi-directional, such that the work domain can influence the family domain, the family domain can influence the work domain, and both can occur simultaneously. Work-family conflict and enrichment have been tied to important employee outcomes, including work (e.g., absenteeism), family (e.g., family satisfaction), and domain-unspecific outcomes (e.g., physical and psychological health), as well as to organizational outcomes (e.g., market performance). Working conditions contributing to work-family conflict and enrichment are frequently characteristic of lower wage jobs, such as low levels of control over work, high work demands, low levels of supervisor support, shift work, and temporary work that can lead to unpredictable schedules, high degrees of job insecurity, and increased health and safety hazards. Researchers are presented with unique challenges as the workplace continues to change, with more dual-earner couples, an increasingly aging workforce, and surges of technology that facilitates flexible work arrangements (e.g., telecommuting). Nonetheless, researchers and organizations work to explore relationships between work and family roles, develop policies related to work and family (i.e., national, state or local, and organizational), and build evidence-based interventions to improve organizations’ abilities to meet employees’ needs.

When the Burden Gets Overwhelming: Testing an Inverse U-Shaped Relation between Work-Family Conflicts and Alcohol Use

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Kuntsche ◽  
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Family Demands ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Employed Parents ◽  
High Level

<b><i>Background:</i></b> Combining work and family demands often results in conflicts increasing alcohol use. However, extreme levels of conflict may be associated with low volumes consumed. This study tests such an inverse u-shaped relationship and whether this is influenced by the source from which the conflicts mainly arise (family duties and/or work obligations). <b><i>Methods:</i></b> Regression models including linear and quadratic terms were estimated based on a sample of 305 employed parents (mean age = 38.7; 52.1% mothers) in French-speaking Switzerland. <b><i>Results:</i></b> No significant gender differences were found for the total level of conflict, but men reported significantly more work conflicts influencing family life than women. A significant positive linear (<i>B</i> = 2.10, SE = 0.72) and negative quadratic (<i>B</i> = −0.60, SE = 0.26) effect was found indicating that parents with low and those with high level of conflict report drinking less alcohol than those with a medium level of conflict. This relation was independent from the underlying sources of conflict and persisted when adjusting for gender, level of employment, number of children, or age of the youngest child. <b><i>Conclusion:</i></b> This study extends existing knowledge by demonstrating that the relationship between work-family conflicts (WFC) and alcohol use is more complex than previously assumed. To explain the inverse u-shaped relation, future studies should test two major processes: (a) holding multiple roles may cause more conflicts but will also limit the opportunities to engage in alcohol use, (b) those facing high level of WFC are a particular risk group experiencing detrimental health outcomes other than hazardous drinking, and (c) a combination of both.

Employee Work-family Role Boundary Management in the Family Business

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 10946
Author(s):  
Matthew Michael Piszczek ◽  
Sarah E. DeArmond ◽  
Dale M Feinauer
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Boundary Management ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Role Boundary ◽  
The Family ◽  
Work Family

scholarly journals Toward Understanding Remote Workers’ Management of Work–Family Boundaries: The Complexity of Workplace Embeddedness

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Eddleston ◽  
Jay Mulki
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Work Conflict ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Family Integration ◽  
Work Family

This study employs a multi-method research design to examine how remote workers, or employees who work solely from home, manage the work–family interface. Our qualitative study revealed that working from home creates unique challenges for remote workers because the work role becomes embedded in the family domain such that their home comes to be associated with the work role, work physically and psychologically intrudes upon their family, and habits and norms form that induce remote workers to be preoccupied with work when home. Based on the qualitative findings, a model was proposed and tested via a questionnaire. Findings from this study of remote workers demonstrated that work–family integration increases family-to-work conflict and work-to-family conflict, and that an inability to disengage from work increases work-to-family conflict. Furthermore, strong work–family integration was found to be particularly harmful to male remote workers’ work-to-family conflict whereas a strong inability to disengage from work was found to be particularly harmful to female remote workers’ work-to-family conflict. Our findings therefore revealed that working solely from home encourages remote workers to overwork and to allow their work to infringe on their family role.

scholarly journals Work-life Balance as a Criterion for Decent Labor Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
T. O. Razumova ◽  
M. A. Serpukhova
Keyword(s):  
Work And Family ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
The Family ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Work Functions ◽  
Key Indicators

In modern conditions, the issues of achieving a balance between family obligations and work functions are becoming increasingly relevant. Such a balance between two important spheres of human activity can be achieved only if the main provisions of the concept of decent work are implemented in Russia, and in the conditions of forced mass transition to remote work, it is subject to serious risks. The purpose of the study is to identify the key problematic aspects of combining family functions and work activities of employees in the context of finding a balance between these categories, through the prism of criteria for decent work and achieving sustainable development Goals. To achieve the stated goal of this work, the authors analyzed the key indicators of the concept of decent work in Russia, as well as conducted an author's study of the family-work balance, which allowed us to formulate a portrait of an employed person who successfully combines work and family functions.

scholarly journals The Cost of Excessive Smartphone Use: Guilt Cross the Work-Family Domains

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yujing Liu ◽  
Jing Du ◽  
Yuan Li
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Family ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Smartphone Use ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Cost

Empirical evidence has accumulated showing that smartphone use at work has the double-edged sword impacts on work-related attitudes and behaviors, but little is known about how its effects transmit and spill over from the workplace to the family domain. Drawing upon compensatory ethics theory, we hypothesize positive associations of employees’ daily private smartphone use at work with their family role performance after work through feeling of guilt. Using an experience sampling methodology, we test our hypotheses in a sample of 101 employees who completed surveys across 10 consecutive workdays. Multilevel path analysis results showed that excessive smartphone use at work triggered experienced guilt, and had a positive indirect effect on family role performance via feeling of guilt. Furthermore, employees with high ability of emotion regulation can be better resolve own painful emotion by engaging in family role performance. Theoretical and practical implications, limitations, and propose future research directions are discussed.

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