A review of work--life research in Australia and New Zealand

Bardoel, Anne; Cieri, Helen De; Santos, Clarice

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“…To date, research on work-life balance has been carried out in various contexts including, but not limited to, the medical field (Keeton, Fenner, Johnson, & Hayward, 2007), construction industry (Watts, 2009), and corporate America (Hobson, Delunas, & Kesic, 2001). Additionally, and related to this study, work-life balance has been explored in higher education (Bardoel, De Cieri, & Santos, 2008;Brus, 2006;Byron, 2005;Marshall et al, 2012;Moyer et al, 1999;Rosser, 2004;Sallee, 2008;Stimpson & Filer, 2011). In academia, work-life has become a topic of import, so much that "over the past decade, work-family balance policies have become a popular [faculty] recruitment tool for research universities" (Sallee, 2008, p. 81).…”

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Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student

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The purpose of this study was to explore the doctoral student experience in relation to their school-work-lives. Through a grounded theory research design we sought to explore the following research question: How, and to what extent, do full-time doctoral students strive to obtain school-work-life balance? Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations with five full-time doctoral education students who held one or more graduate assistantships on campus. From the data, we constructed four themes. Full-time doctoral students strived to achieve a school-work-life balance by (a) purposefully managing their time, priorities, and roles and responsibilities; (b) seeking well-being by managing stress levels, maintaining their mental and physical health, and creating personal time; (c) finding support from various individuals and their institution; and (d) making tradeoffs. Additionally, we found that single students with no children faced more challenges in efforts to obtain a school-work-life balance in comparison to their peers with families. Based on our findings, programs can facilitate degree attainment for students by continuing to provide financial support, flexibility in school and work schedules, and support services tailored to specifically address doctoral student needs. Lastly, our participants' stories may resonate with other doctoral students, and thus, may help them think about ways to attempt to balance their work and personal lives.

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“…Student work responsibilities differed based on their assigned faculty members' research efforts and ongoing projects. Lastly, life encompassed the non-academic, personal components of student lives such as family and pastimes or as defined by Bardoel et al (2008) "everything outside of work" (p. 317).…”

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Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student

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Sala

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“…Some of the extant research (e.g. Bardoel et al, 2008;Drago and Kashian, 2003) has also suggested that the boundaries of work-family research should include all studies and discourse connecting paid employment and the individuals' commitment to their friends and families. It is herein argue this does not exclude self-employment and, therefore, define work-family research to include extant research which investigates the relationships between all forms of employment, including self-employment and individuals' commitment to their kith and kin.…”

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“…The high interest in women in this research area within the African setting, according to Bardoel et al (2008), is due to the historical conceptualisation that WFB predominantly affects women who are in paid employment and have families. The article sought data from medical doctors and university lecturers across Nigeria.…”

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Understanding the causes and consequences of work-family conflict

2016

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st century employee is a desire for work and family balance which is devoid of conflict. Drawing on detailed empirical research, this article examines the multi-faceted causes and consequences of work-family conflict in a non-western context (Nigeria).Methodology -The paper uses qualitative data gleaned from the semi-structured interviews of 88 employees (44 university lecturers and 44 medical doctors) in cities in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.Findings -The findings showed that work pressure, heavy familial duties, poor infrastructural facilities, and a lack of suitable and practicable work-family balance policies are the main causes of work-family conflict in Nigeria. Juvenile delinquencies, broken marriages/families, and an unhappy workforce are among the grave consequences of work-family conflict among Nigerian employees.Originality/value -This article suggests that the availability of basic infrastructural facilities, more governmental support, practicable work-family policies, inter alia, will reduce the level of work-family conflict for Nigerian employees and will also results in positive spill-over from the work domain to the family domain and vice-versa.Keywords: work-family balance, work-family conflict, spill-over, Nigerian employees. IntroductionAn understanding of the causes and consequences of work-family conflict (WFC) is of practical importance for both employees and employers. It will help employees work towards solving the problem of WFC by achieving a balance between their work demands and familial obligations (Burke et al., 2011). Employers will be able to offer help to employees in terms of ameliorating any WFC and will eventually have a healthy, happy, and productive workforce, thereby fostering societal harmony (Ransome, 2007;Kelly, Phyllis and Eric, 2011). This is, perhaps, whyHarrington and Ladge (2009, p. 148) described work-family balance (WFB) as one of the "most significant business issues of the 21 st century". It can be argued that WFC is an issue of global concern, with a great deal of research having been conducted about western countries (Brough and Kalliath, 2009;O'Driscoll, Brough and Kalliath, 2006). However, fewer studies have been undertaken about Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (specifically Nigeria) (Ajiboye, 2008;Akintoya, 2010). This article provides an empirical insight into the causes and consequences of WFC by using Nigeria as the empirical focus. The social, cultural, and economic contexts differ from those of the West. This article aims to provide a Sub-Saharan African context for WFC.WFC has been discussed extensively in management literature and has dominated public discourse on work-family interface in the past four decades (Runte and Mills, 2006). The strong interest in this subject may well be connected with the fact that WFC negatively affects families, workers, and employers/organisations (Grover and Crooker, 1995;Konrad and Mangel, 2000).According to Runte (2009, p. 19 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ...

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“…Research on work family conflict is criticised by many research scholars for testing previously discussed relationships rather than developing new models or concepts (Bardoel et al, 2008) and far less exploratory research was conducted between 1980 and 2003 (Casper et al 2007). In line with this argument, this research provides a starting point for academic research scholars to understand and assess known and unknown areas of work family conflict research during the past 30 years.…”

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The nature of work family conflict: A review and agenda for future research

Kengatharan

2015

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The main purpose of this research was to identify gaps in the existing literature on work family conflict from the past 30 years, and develop a viable research plan for further research. Research papers from peer-reviewed journals were collected from multiple databases including Proquest, Business Source Premier (EBSCOhost), Expanded Academic (Gale), Emerald, ISI Web Science, the Sloan Work and Family Research Network at Boston College, and Google Scholar. Full text papers published in English in the last three decades were included in this study. The collected papers were then classified and analysed using thematic content analysis. Factors influencing work family conflict, their consequences and the relevant constructs were systematically identified and summarised. The gaps in the extant literature from the past 30 years were identified and these were subsumed under a regional gap-theoretical cultural perspective, a measurement gap, cross cultural studies, organisational responsiveness, environmental factors and gender role theory. The present study serves as a springboard for future studies and theory building on the interaction between the work and family domains. This research is original in its nature as it has identified major strands of the extant literature on work family conflict and ipso facto it can guide research scholars towards the unknown terrain of the work family sphere. This research urges policy makers, practitioners and members of organisations to digest this knowledge and it aims to make them aware of the overarching area of work and family in the contemporary world. The major limitation of this study is the Tower of Babel Bias, to wit, research studies not published in English were excluded from this study.

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A review of work--life research in Australia and New Zealand

Cited by 37 publications

References 55 publications

Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student

Striving to Obtain a School-Work-Life Balance: The Full-Time Doctoral Student

Understanding the causes and consequences of work-family conflict

The nature of work family conflict: A review and agenda for future research

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