Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance : : An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future / / Peter Kruyen, Stéfanie André, and Beatrice Van der Heijden.
"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. Collabo...
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| Superior document: | New Horizons in Management Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2024. |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New horizons in management.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Table of 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.