Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance : An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future / Peter Kruyen, Stéfanie André, and Beatrice Van der Heijden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kruyen, Peter, 1983- author.

André, Stéfanie (Stéfanie Cathérine Hana), 1987- author.

Heijden, Beatrice van der, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

New horizons in management.

New Horizons in Management Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work and family.

Work-life balance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

"This thought-provoking book provides a detailed exploration of work-life balance, considering the perspectives of specific groups such as parents, academics, the self-employed, and migrants. Moreover, it sheds more light on the dynamics of self-care, childcare as well as informal care. Collaborative and interdisciplinary in its approach, featuring researchers ranging from quantitative to interpretative scholars, it highlights the importance of a sustainable work-life balance and the instruments needed to improve this. Focusing on both working arrangements and life events, this book assembles a diverse range of researchers to provide a holistic understanding of work-life balance, with chapters covering the organisational aspects of work-life balance and the effects of digitalisation. The authors analyse the experiences of working parents and how work-life balance changes after retirement, and provide diagnostic instructions for employees and employers to re-organise the way they work across the life-span in order to maintain and enhance work-life balance. Exploring newly emerging work-life issues, this expansive book will be an invaluable resource for practitioners, scholars, and for students of business management, public administration, Human Resource Management, social policy and the sociology of work. Its extensive policy recommendations will also make it a crucial reading for policy makers and employers seeking to improve workplace support"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Part I Setting the stage

1. Introduction to maintaining a sustainable work-life balance

2. Questioning the balance of work and life: some philosophical observations

3. Work hard, play hard: on the reciprocity of work conditions and leisure lifestyles

4. Volunteering and work-life balance

5. The impact of life and career stages on workers' career sustainability

6. The value of work-life balance: cross-country and cross-worker comparisons

Part II Workplace support

7. Combining work and informal caregiving: workplace support to reduce work-care conflict

8. Leadership support and work-life balance

9. Leadership, social support, and work-life balance of employees

10. Work-life balance in essential and non-essential occupations in the Netherlands

11. The use of work-life arrangements in academia: a critical analysis of the potential to transform organizational norms

Part III Digitalization and homeworking

12. Digital regulation in the service of sustainable work-life balance

13. Signaling support for work-family balance in order to retain (tele)workers in hybrid work contexts: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

14. Balancing work and life at home: a longitudinal analysis of working from home and work-life balance before and during the pandemic

15. Workplace flexibility and homeworking after COVID-19 in public-sector and private-sector organizations

16. When you just can't "let it go": a study of work-to-life conflict and job performance among Dutch public servants

Part IV Working parents

17. Returning to work after childbirth: maternal experiences and spillover-crossover effects on the infant

18. Engaged fathers: towards a fatherhood premium or penalty?.

19. "Dadpreneurship": a new practice among second-generation Chinese-Dutch entrepreneurs to achieve work-life balance

20. Work-family balance and mental well-being across Europe: does a supportive country context matter?

Part V Work-life balance and retirement

21. Sustainable work-life balance after retirement

22. Balancing retirement age and termination of employment

Part VI Individual strategies for fostering work-life balance

23. Taking care of your own wellbeing

24. Impact of strategies and interventions for improving work-life balance

25. The Vocational Meaning and Fulfillment Survey: a new tool for fostering employees' work-life balance and career sustainability

26. Sustainable work through crafting

27. Resetting time and priorities: communicative sensemaking and implications of homeworking

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781803922348

1803922346