Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between           Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Kollinger-Santer, Iris; Fischlmayr, Iris C.

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“…We controlled for gender, children, and age. The selection of these control variables was based on studies revealing that women experience more emotional exhaustion (Purvanova & Muros, 2010) and poorer work-life balance in the context of business travel than men (Kollinger-Santer & Fischlmayr, 2013). Jensen (2014) found that parental responsibility was positively related to work-family conflict among business travelers.…”

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The impact of preventive coping on business travelers' work and private life

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Frequent business travel can be a burden for travelers' work and private life. We tested whether preventive coping (the proactive accumulation of resources in advance of potential stressors) makes such trips beneficial despite their potential to be stressful. In a longitudinal threewave study, we investigated whether frequent travel relates to an increase or decrease in work-life balance, emotional exhaustion, work engagement, and relationship satisfaction depending on preventive coping. Findings from a sample of 133 frequent business travelers revealed significant indirect effects for emotional exhaustion, work engagement, and relationship satisfaction through work-life balance. Among employees who engaged less in preventive coping, a higher number of business trips was related to a decrease in work-life balance, which, in turn, was related to more emotional exhaustion, less work engagement, and lower relationship satisfaction. Among those who reported higher preventive coping, we found opposing indirect effects: Frequent travel was related to an increase in work-life balance and, in turn, to less emotional exhaustion, more work engagement, and higher relationship satisfaction. These findings advance our knowledge in the field of business travel, future-oriented coping, and work-life balance. They highlight that travelers and their organizations should resort to preventive coping to make frequent travel more beneficial.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

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“…Employees asserted that to accommodate all employees' work–family needs, HR departments should provide tailored support (Kollinger‐Santer & Fischlmayr, ; Fischlmayr & Kollinger, ). In cases where organisations provided one‐size‐fits‐all support, different unions elicited different outcomes because the support in place did not always solve employees' work–family issues (Ravenswood & Markey, ).…”

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Qualitative Research on Work-Family in the Management Field: A Review

Beigi

Shirmohammadi

2017

Applied Psychology

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Despite a proliferation of work-family literature over the past three decades, studies employing quantitative methodologies significantly outweigh those adopting qualitative approaches. In this paper, we intend to explore the state of qualitative work-family research in the management field and provide a comprehensive profile of the 152 studies included in this review. We synthesize the findings of qualitative work-family studies and provide six themes including parenthood, gender differences, cultural differences, family-friendly policies and non-traditional work arrangements, coping strategies, and under-studied populations. We also describe how findings of qualitative work-family studies compare to that of quantitative studies. The review highlights seven conclusions in the current qualitative literature: a limited number of qualitative endeavours, findings worth further attention, convergent foci, the loose use of work-family terminology, the neglect of a variety of qualitative research approaches, quantitative attitudes towards qualitative research, and insufficient reporting of research methods. In addition, implications for future researchers are discussed.

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“…Several studies explore work-life issues and work-family conflicts related to gender and global careers (Hearn et al 2008;Hutchings et al 2012;Mäkelä and Suutari 2011). Finally, reflecting changing employment and work patterns, there are recent studies on work-life issues for employees who undertake frequent international business travel (e.g., Hearn et al 2008;Kollinger-Santer and Fischlmayr 2013;Kvande 2009) and particularly for women on international assignments (Shortland 2014). There is also emerging research on employees in developing economies who may be integral to the operations of an MNC; cross-cultural research exploring different national perspectives of work-life offers insights to inform MNC managers about how to approach work-life in local contexts (e.g., Masuda et al 2012).…”

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“…Given the investment in expatriates and knowledge workers, it is valuable for researchers to investigate work-life issues for strategically important employees in MNCs, such as expatriates (e.g., Fischlmayr and Kollinger 2010;Lazarova et al 2010;Rosenbusch and Cseh 2012;Shih et al 2010). Recent research examining the impact of changing employment patterns and exploring 'new' or different employment modes in MNCs is also valuable (e.g., Kollinger-Santer and Fischlmayr 2013;Mäkelä and Suutari 2011). It is encouraging that researchers have responded to calls such as those by Agars and French (2011) to move beyond a focus on middle-class, white-collar positions.…”

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A Framework for Work-Life Management in Multinational Corporations

Cieri

Bardoel

2015

Work and Family Interface in the International Career Context

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Work-life issues are a substantial concern for managers and employees in many multinational corporations (MNCs), as there are many challenges related to the need for MNCs to balance global policy guidelines with responsiveness to regional and local differences. Drawing on recent empirical advances, we offer a framework and a set of broad research questions to guide future scholarship in work-life management in MNCs. The framework identifies important external and organisational factors that influence the HRM function and specifically work-life policies and practices, in MNCs. Employee responses to work-life practices are proposed to mediate the relationship with the organisation's social and financial performance. Avenues for future research are discussed. Keywords Environmental dynamism • Human resource management processes • Multinational corporations • Organisational performance • Work-life managementMany managers in multinational corporations (MNCs) face challenges related to the often-competing pressures for global integration and local responsiveness. On one hand, there are efficiencies to be gained by global co-ordination and consistency of policies; on the other hand, local differences such as social and institutional variations create pressures for responsiveness (Doz and Prahalad 1991;Sparrow 2012). Achieving an effective balance between global and local pressures enables MNCs to integrate units into a cohesive, global organisation and maximise local responsiveness (Venaik et al. 2004). Recent arguments for regionalisation (e.g., Edwards et al. 2012;Rugman et al. 2011) suggest even more complexity and tension related to competing pressures at multiple levels, perhaps global, local and regional. We suggest that work-life management in MNCs provides an excellent case for analysis of the way in which MNCs manage these competing pressures

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Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Cited by 16 publications

References 81 publications

The impact of preventive coping on business travelers' work and private life

The impact of preventive coping on business travelers' work and private life

Qualitative Research on Work-Family in the Management Field: A Review

A Framework for Work-Life Management in Multinational Corporations

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