A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today's human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as 'extreme workers' regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and 'the rest of life'.
This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.
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Part I Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals
1 Integrating Professional Work and Life: Conditions, Outcomes and Resources (Cornelia U. Reindl, Stephan Kaiser, and Martin L. Stolz) ;
2 Introducing Theoretical Approaches to Work-Life Balance and Testing a New Typology Among Professionals (Johanna Rantanen, Ulla Kinnunen, Saija Mauno, and Kati Tillemann) ;
3 From 'Balancers' to 'Integrators' - Young Professionals Talk About Work and the Rest of Life in the UK (Uracha Chatrakul Na Ayudhya and Suzan Lewis) ;
4 Redefining Success: The Foundation for Creating Work-Life Balance (J. Lee Whittington, Rosemary Maellaro, and Timothy Galpin) ;
Part II Antecedents and Consequences Related to Professionals? Work-Life Integration
5 Personality and Work-Life Integration . . . 81
Jesse S. Michel and Malissa A. Clark
6 Potential Antecedents and Consequences of Work-Family
Conflict: A Three Country Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Ronald J. Burke, Lisa Fiksenbaum, Ghada El-Kot,
Mustafa Koyuncu, and Weng Jing
7 Work-Family Balance, Role Integration
and Employee Well-Being . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Ann Chunyan Peng, Remus Ilies, and Nikos Dimotakis
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Part III Mothers, Fathers, and Couples: Challenging
Conventional Wisdom
8 What to Expect When She's Expecting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Jamie J. Ladge, Danna Greenberg, and Judith A. Clair
9 Fatherhood and Flexible Working: A Contradiction in Terms? . . 157
Simon Burnett, Caroline Gatrell, Cary Cooper,
and Paul Sparrow
10 Dual-Career Couples: Specific Challenges
for Work-Life Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Andrea E. Abele and Judith Volmer
Part IV Corporate Strategies Facilitating Work-Life Integration
11 Corporate Work-Life Balance Initiatives: Use and Effectiveness . 193
T. Alexandra Beauregard
12 Temporal Workplace Flexibility and Associated
Work-Life Outcomes for Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
E. Jeffrey Hill, Sarah June Carroll, Blake L. Jones, Lydia A. Buswell, Tamara A. Fackrell, and Adam M. Galovan
13 Causes and Consequences of the Utilization of Work-Life Policies by Professionals: ?Unconditional Supervisor Support Required? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Bram Peper, Josje Dikkers, Claartje Vinkenburg, and Marloes van Engen
Part V Boundary Issues of Professionals? Work-Life Integration
14 The Pressures of Commitment: Taking Software Home . . . . . . 253
Jeff Hyman and Chris Baldry
15 The 'Myth of Separate Worlds': An Exploration of How Mobile Technology has Redefined Work-Life Balance . . . . . . . 269
Linda Duxbury and Rob Smart
16 Working in Polycontextual Environments: An Empirical
Analysis of Flexpatriates? Lifestyles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Helene Mayerhofer, Barbara Müller, and Angelika Schmidt
17 Spatial Aspects of Professionals? Work-Life Integration . . . . . . 303
Deirdre Anderson and Clare Kelliher