“Time is our most important resource,” says time-use researcher Melissa Milkie. “Once it’s spent, we can’t get it back. EVER!" Competition for this finite resource—our time—is intense—especially for those who are both parents and in the workforce. Technology enables some people to work anytime, any place, and many of us do, though a recent study [Read More...]
Erin Cech used to be a passion evangelist and tell people to follow their passion when choosing work—that is, until she studied it. She defines the Passion Principle as “prioritizing finding work that’s meaningful and self-expressive to you.” It includes an intellectual connection to work (a sense of finding it interesting); an emotional connection (a [Read More...]
We all experience feeling pulled by the demands and responsibilities at work and at home — work-family conflict — and those demands can feel overwhelming and unsolvable. Kim French of Colorado State University brings new insights and helpful solutions to this age-old dilemma. She says, "What I've learned in doing work-family conflict research and in [Read More...]
Organizational whistleblowers routinely encounter retaliation such as jobloss, ostracism, intimidation, and death threats which can impact their"master status," or core identity. Questions remain about whetherwhistleblowing experiences can "spill over" into homes, affecting familyidentities. This study aimed to understand how spillover related towhistleblowing affected family identity, and to identify communicativefactors which influenced family identity (re)construction. Thirty [Read More...]
Over the past several decades, there has been considerable interest inthe theoretical causes of work–family conflict (WFC). Most studies havefocused on situational determinants, often ignoring the role of personalfactors such as disposition and heritable elements. We increase understandingof person versus situation influences on WFC through estimation of therelationship between role demands and WFC after controlling [Read More...]
Integrating work–family conflict theory with family systems theory, weexamine a potential dark side of parents' intrinsic work motivation bylinking it to their work‐to‐family conflict (WFC) perceived by the adolescentat home. We hypothesize that the father's (mother's) intrinsic motivation maybe positively related to his (her) WFC perceived by the adolescent. Weadditionally hypothesize that one spouse's WFC [Read More...]
Previous studies have shown that societal norms around gender roles canshape gender-based outcomes of working from home. This paper extends thesefindings to see how individuals' gender role attitudes can moderate therelationship between working from home and work–family conflict, but againwith varying outcomes for men and women. We use data from around 3150employees who participated in [Read More...]
Based on conservation of resources theory, the present studyexamines a serial mediation model in which empowering leadership predicts thenature of work-home interfaces via cognitive states and processes(interactional justice and work rumination). Two waves of data with aone-month interval were obtained from 195 full-time Korean employees.Structural equation modeling assessed mediation, first by two forms ofinteractional justice [Read More...]
This research examines the mixed work-to-family spillover effects of unethical pro-organizational behavior. Drawing on conservation of resources theory and the work–home resources model, we develop a dual-pathway model to explain such effects. Based on a three-wave field study involving 214 respondents in China, we find engagement in unethical pro-organizational behavior to be positively associated with [Read More...]
Extant research has documented the role of workplace-related factors in eliciting uncivil employee behaviors in the workplace, while the role of family-related variables has been largely overlooked. Drawing on the work-home resources model and the conservation of resources theory, the present study attempts to bridge this gap in the literature by exploring the relationship between [Read More...]