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Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance
An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future
9781803922331 Edward Elgar Publishing
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘This edited book provides an updated, critical, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge concerning work-life balance by encompassing contributions from an amazing and diverse group of well-known international scholars. Either if you are a student, a HR practitioner, a line manager, or a researcher, you’ll find here insights about the impact of digitalization, the consequences of being a working parent, practical tips for enjoying a more sustainable work-life balance, and so on.’
– Alessandro Lo Presti, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
‘A community of scholars, working together virtually amidst the Covid pandemic, surveys the present and future of work-life balance from multiple disciplinary and stakeholder (workers, spouses and families, employers, communities, nations) perspectives. Fresh theorizing and sound research reveal how gig work, digitalization, shifting gender roles, and post-pandemic sensibilities are transforming how we work and live across career stages and the life span. The result is a must-read for work-life researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, a valuable resource for organizational and community scholars, and an inspiration and example for those who do (or aspire to do) relevant research.’
– Philip Mirvis, Babson College, US
– Alessandro Lo Presti, Università degli studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Italy
‘A community of scholars, working together virtually amidst the Covid pandemic, surveys the present and future of work-life balance from multiple disciplinary and stakeholder (workers, spouses and families, employers, communities, nations) perspectives. Fresh theorizing and sound research reveal how gig work, digitalization, shifting gender roles, and post-pandemic sensibilities are transforming how we work and live across career stages and the life span. The result is a must-read for work-life researchers, policy makers, and practitioners, a valuable resource for organizational and community scholars, and an inspiration and example for those who do (or aspire to do) relevant research.’
– Philip Mirvis, Babson College, US
Contributors
Contributors include: Jos Akkermans, Tammy Allen, Stéfanie André, Roseriet Beijers, Inge Bleijenbergh, Cécile Boot, Michael Coker, Jessica de Bloom, Melanie de Ruiter, Ans De Vos, Laura den Dulk, Caroline Essers, Leire Gartzia, Emily Godager, Marc Grau-Grau, Ron Hameleers, Mark Heemskerk, Philipp Kerksieck, Shelena Keulemans, Sanna Konsti, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Gerbert Kraaykamp, Peter Kruyen, Miika Kujanpää, Chang-Qin Lu, Anne Mäkikangas, Sanna Markkula, Saija Mauno, Samantha Metselaar, Gabriele Morandin, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Sabrina Pellerin, Pascale Peters, Gary Peterson, Palina Prysmakova, Johanna Rantanen, Chantal Remery, Sarah Riforgiate, Ashkan Rostami, Marcello Russo, Pablo Sanabria-Pulido, Hans Schilderman, Inyoung Shin, Jessica Sowa, Yidong Tao, Marjolein van de Pol, Beatrice van der Heijden, Joëlle van der Meer, Koen van Eijck, Marloes van Engen, Karen van Hedel, Ellen Verbakel, Brenda Vermeeren, Klaske Veth, Mark Visser, Mara Yerkes
