The everyday accomplishment of work and family: Exploring practical actions in daily routines

Medved, Caryn E.

doi:10.1080/10510970409388609

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“…Our study has attempted to detail the elements which these managerial practices are made of, and has offered an instance in which they could be observed in action. In line with the epistemological principles of qualitative research, our aim is not to generalize the results but to contribute to detailing the categories with which to look at the domestic and family work taking into account the perspective of family members (Medved 2004).…”

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“Somebody is thinking about it”: Women as household managers in dual-earner families

Alby¹,

Fatigante²,

Zucchermaglio³

2014

JFamRes

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In this work we focus, through a multi-method approach, on the managerial practices used by working mothers to deal with complex schedules and family needs in domestic life. We know, from previous studies, that dual earner families face substantial reorganizations of their domestic life, but there has been little research on how such reorganizations are accomplished within families. Findings draw on different data sets (focus groups, self-report charts, naturally occurring interactions) and, overall, show the centrality of managerial practices in the everyday domestic life of this kind of families. Results also show that housework is an arena for practical reasoning and thinking, making visible, through a detailed analysis of the sequential unfolding of actions, the managerial practices used by mothers to exploit and interactively coordinate different and competing activities. Finally, we suggest that managerial practices may constitute a form of care work through which mothers guarantee family members’ well-being. Zusammenfassung In dieser Arbeit nehmen wir mithilfe eines Multimethodenansatzes die Managementpraxis erwerbstätiger Mütter, die diese zur Bewältigung komplexer Zeitpläne und der Bedürfnisse der Familie anwenden, in den Blick. Aus vorausgegangenen Studien wissen wir, dass Doppelverdienerfamilien einer grundlegenden Umgestaltung des häuslichen Familienlebens gegenüberstehen, wobei bisher kaum darüber geforscht wurde, wie eine solche Reorganisation innerhalb der Familien erreicht wird. Die Erkenntnisse beruhen auf verschiedenen Datensätzen (Fokusgruppen, Zeitverwendungstagebücher, Aufzeichnung von Alltagsgesprächen) und verweisen auf die zentrale Bedeutung dieser Managementpraktiken im häuslichen Alltagsleben dieser Familien. Die Ergebnisse zeigen zudem, dass die Hausarbeit eine Arena praktischer Überlegungen und Denkmuster ist. Mithilfe einer detaillierten Analyse der sequentiellen Handlungsabfolgen in der Hausarbeit werden die Managementpraktiken sichtbar, die die Mütter nutzen, um unterschiedliche und miteinander in Wettstreit stehende Aktivitäten für sich zu verwerten und zu koordinieren. Abschließend schlagen wir vor, dass diese Managementpraktiken eine Form von Care- Arbeit darstellt, durch die Mütter das Wohlergehen der Familienmitglieder sicherstellen.

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“Somebody is thinking about it”: Women as household managers in dual-earner families

Alby¹,

Fatigante²,

Zucchermaglio³

2014

JFamRes

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“…Although work=life research can be found in a variety of disciplines, and with a range of foci, the research based in communication is particularly useful in understanding how individuals experience work=life issues, and how those experiences both reflect and reinforce organizational and societal views. Communication scholars have studied work=life questions by investigating employee use of programs or benefits, (Kirby, 2000;Kirby & Krone, 2002;Liu & Buzzanell, 2004;Miller, Jablin, Casey, Lamphear-Van Horn, & Ethington, 1996;Zoller, 2003) and by exploring individual and family experiences of work=life conflict (Golden, 2001(Golden, , 2002Medved, 2004). These pieces build an important foundation from which to expand the study of work=life issues.…”

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“…The relationship between paid work and the rest of life continues to be of interest in both corporate and academic circles (Clark, 2002;Conlin, 2003;Farrell & Geist-Martin, 2005;Gibbs, 2002;Hochschild, 1989Hochschild, , 1997Kirby, Golden, Medved, Jorgenson, & Buzzanell, 2003;Kirby & Krone, 2002;Lewis & Dyer, 2002;Medved, 2004;Moen & Sweet, 2004;Pitt-Casouphes, Swanberg, Bond, & Galinsky, 2004). As individual employees move between organizations with greater frequency, quality work=life programs can serve a recruiting function (Maxwell & McDougall, 2004).…”

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Be Careful What You Ask For: Structuration Theory and Work/Life Accommodation

Hoffman

Cowan

2010

Communication Studies

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An analysis of 96 employee requests for accommodation revealed the rules and resources that govern the negotiation of work=life issues in organizations. Using Giddens' structuration theory, the authors identified six rules and three resources commonly employed in seeking assistance in achieving work=life balance and identified ways that these rules and resources reproduce and challenge the system. Implications for managers, employees, and researchers are discussed.

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“…It is argued that individuals and couples often develop habits for how they will respond to work-family conflict that arises in everyday life [19]. However, not every decision to settle work-family conflict is covered by these routine decisions.…”

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“…However, not every decision to settle work-family conflict is covered by these routine decisions. When an individual establish an ongoing and complex nature of work-family conflict related decision making and the influence of these decisions [19,20], researchers may provide value to explore these decisions made by individual on that particular incidents of work-family conflict. Past researchers such as Greenhaus and Powell [21] have focused on the phenomenon of ongoing work-family conflict and the decision processes through which people manage work-family conflict incidents [22] while slight attention has been given to study consequent effects of work-family conflict on individual decision making processes.…”

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Work-Family Conflict and Decision Making Styles: Study of Higher Education Sector of Pakistan

Rehman

Mushtaq

Waheed

2015

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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This study examines the impact of work-family conflict on decision making styles of faculty members in higher education sector of Pakistan. Study also highlights the moderating role of decisional intelligence (a part of emotional intelligence) in predicting the relationship among work-family conflict and decision making styles. Two hypotheses are generated for the present research work including; (i) work-family conflict has significant impact on the decision making styles of faculty members; and, (ii) decisional intelligence moderates the relationship between work-family conflict and decision making styles of faculty members. Questionnaire method is utilized to collect data from the sample of 352 faculty members employed in federal chartered universities of Pakistan. Results for H 1 suggest that work-family conflict negatively predicts rational and intuitive decision making; and, positively predicts avoidant and spontaneous decision making styles while no association is found with dependent decision making style. Results for H 2 suggest that decisional intelligence moderates the relationship among work-family conflict, rational, intuitive and dependent decision making styles. This research work describes both academic and professional issues and its findings can be comprehensively utilized for the betterment of higher education sector of Pakistan.

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The everyday accomplishment of work and family: Exploring practical actions in daily routines

Cited by 72 publications

References 20 publications

“Somebody is thinking about it”: Women as household managers in dual-earner families

“Somebody is thinking about it”: Women as household managers in dual-earner families

Be Careful What You Ask For: Structuration Theory and Work/Life Accommodation

Work-Family Conflict and Decision Making Styles: Study of Higher Education Sector of Pakistan

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