Browsing by Subject "work-life balance"

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    Evaluating the Effects of a Job Crafting Intervention on Employee Work-Life Balance
    (2020) DeLongchamp, Amanda C
    In 2019, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology identified work-life balance interventions as one of the top 10 workplace trends (SIOP Administrative Office, 2019). No known research has been conducted using job crafting as an intervention to improve work-life balance. As a result, the current project seeks to contribute to scientific literature in producing additional findings about how job crafting may benefit employee work-life balance. The importance of supportive supervisory behaviors was also analyzed as it has been shown to encourage employee utilization of job crafting (e.g., Kim & Beehr, 2018; Wang et al., 2016) and improve perceptions of work-life balance (e.g., Hammer et al., 2009; McMullan et al., 2018). A quasi-experimental design was conducted to assess the effectiveness of the Crafting Work-Life Balance intervention on improving work-life balance among healthcare professionals. The intervention included general education about work-life balance, job crafting, goal-setting to identify specific job crafting actions, and accountability. Perceptions of work-life balance were hypothesized to improve with increased levels of job crafting following the intervention. Supportive leader behaviors of work-life balance were also expected to have a positive relationship with job crafting efforts to improve of work-life balance. Findings from the present study did not support the expected relationship between job crafting and work-life balance. However, these findings support the need for further research on the causal relationship between job crafting interventions and work-life balance. Until then, practitioners should be cautious when using job crafting to directly improve work-life balance.
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    The Work-Life Balance in Crisis: Leave taking among employed women in the United States
    (Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-03-30) Saunoi-Sandgren, Emily
    In the United States today, many working parents struggle to balance their work and family responsibilities. No standard for success in maintaining this balance exists and many families struggle daily with the competing needs of work and family without any support from society at large. While women’s rates of labor force participation are gaining parity to men in the workforce, women still feel more acutely this work-life struggle. In her book, The Price of Motherhood, Ann Crittenden (2001) writes, “There is increasing evidence in the United States and worldwide that mothers’ differential responsibility for children, rather than classic sex discrimination, is the most important factor disposing women to poverty” (p. 88). Women’s greater responsibility in the private sphere of domestic work heightens their risk of economic insecurity and is shown to decrease their participation in civic and political activities, thereby reducing women’s individual and collective power (Gornick & Meyers 2003). Compounding the issue of a woman’s unequal burden of caretaking is the greater burden experienced by low-income women and women of color who have fewer resources to provide care, and less affordable time away from work to give to caretaking (Gerstel & McGonagle 1999).