Work‐family conflict and coping strategies adopted by female married professionals in Hong Kong

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2001),"The tug of work and family: Direct and indirect domain-specific determinants of work-family conflict", Personnel Review, Vol. 30 Iss 5 pp. 502-522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005936 Access to this document was granted through an Emerald subscription provided by 277069 [] For AuthorsIf you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractThis study examined the kinds of work-family conflict experienced by female married professionals with children in Hong Kong and the coping strategies they had adopted.

Walking the tightrope between work and non-work life: strategies employed by British and Chinese academics and their implications

“…Support from partners was perceived to be available and important by both British and Chinese academics. Our finding is congruent with previous studies (Aryee et al 1999;Beutell and Greenhaus 1983;Lo, Stone, and Ng 2003;Ren and Foster 2011) which found that support from the spouse can generate positive feelings about and enhance contentment with WLB. British academics cited both emotional and physical support from their partners.…”

“…This is in common with other recent investigations of employees" WLB coping behaviours and strategies (Lo, Stone, and Ng 2003;Sturges 2012;Xiao and Cooke 2012). A semistructured interviewing approach was adopted because the respondents" knowledge, perceptions, and experiences are meaningful properties (Mason 2002).…”

“…In China, marriage and motherhood are not purely personal choices and decisions, whilst organisations seldom adopt formal policies and practices that help improve WLB. Therefore, for those who have childcare and/or other home responsibilities, employment of domestic labour and drawing on family net-works for support appear to play a key role in the personal coping process in Chinese society (Aaltio and Huang 2007;Lo, Stone, and Ng 2003;Ren and Foster 2011;Thein, Currie, and Austen 2006;Xiao and Cooke 2012). To date, there is a large body of literature on WLB coping strategies generally, but less is known about the coping strategies that individual academics have developed to manage their WLB.…”

Achieving Work Family Balance (Wfb) Among Professional Working Women in Mauritius: A Qualitative Study

“…Structural role redefinition is changing the structure of one"s imposed expectations (Lo et al, 2003). Mutual agreement will be made by communicating with the role senders and by negotiating a new set of expectations.…”

“…Lo et al (2003) classified coping strategies into three types, based on Hall"s (1972) typology, namely: Structural role redefinition, personal role redefinition and reactive role behaviour.…”