Welcome to the WFRN Research Feed!
The Research Feed is intended to make members of the work-family community aware of recent scholarship in academic publications (such as academic journals and books) or items of interest to the academic research community. The Research Feed canvases research journals that commonly publish work-family studies. The feed is presented on the WFRN website and is directed to members’ email accounts.
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The Future of Flexibility at Work
What does true flexibility look like? Most organizations approach it in one of two ways: as an ad hoc work-life accommodation available upon request, or as giving people permission to get their work done on their own schedule — as long as they’re available to answer emails or put out fires 24/7. Neither approach is [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
From Ideal Workers to Ideal Work for All: A Review Integrating the Careers and Work-Family Literatures.
Historically, the careers literature, (grounded in vocational psychology) and the work-family literature, rooted in industrial-organizational psychology and organizational behavior (IO/OB), were not well-integrated, developed at separate speeds, and differed in gender focus. Early career studies targeted men’s careers, while work-family studies centered on women’s careers. Both literatures assumed conformity to an Ideal Worker norm. Looking [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
How Do Changes in Family Role Status Impact Employees? An Empirical Investigation
How Do Changes in Family Role Status Impact Employees? An Empirical Investigation. By: Perrigino, M., Kossek, E., Thompson, R., & Bodner, T. 2021. Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences. Vol. 4 Issue 5, p393-409. Purpose Despite the proliferation of work–family research, a thorough understanding of family role status changes (e.g. the gaining of elder [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
Why Work-Life Inclusion Matters for Women’s Career Equality and What to Do About It.
A highly productive female associate professor with a stellar record at a top U.S. business school asks to meet with her dean on a personal matter. She shares that her mother-in-law, who lives in Asia, has been diagnosed with late-stage cancer and requests family leave to fly overseas to care for her. The dean asked [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
What Working Parents Need from Their Managers
Even during a pandemic, managers are expected to lead their teams and drive business results. But there’s a dilemma: They must acknowledge that Covid-19 is putting an enormous strain on people, especially working parents, while also holding them accountable for getting their work done. This means employing two strategies that, on the surface, might seem [Read More…]
July 17, 2023
Sending children to camp: An analysis of decision‐making by family income.
Objectives: This study sought to (a) identify the factors most salient toparents when sending their child to summer camp, (b) examine family members’roles in the camp decision‐making process, and (c) compare both by income andother family contextual factors in a sample of parents with a child whoenrolled and participated in a summer camp experience. Methods: [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Associations between childhood family‐based nature activities and family relationship quality in emerging adulthood.
Objective: To explore changes in family‐based nature activities (FBNA)across five developmental stages and investigate whether frequency and typeof FBNA across the early life course is associated with greater familyrelationship quality in emerging adulthood. Method: Retrospective survey datawas collected from 451 undergraduate students who primarily identified asAsian American (44.9%) and Latinx (42.7%). Results: Multilevel models showedthat [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Influence of family factors on service members’ decisions to leave the military.
Background: Service member retention is a crucial aspect in maintainingand advancing the U.S. military and its mission. To increase retention, it isimportant to understand why active duty personnel voluntarily leave whilethey are still highly qualified. For married service members, spouses likelyinfluence the decision to stay or leave military service. Objective: Thecurrent study used data from [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
Grandmothers who raise working parents’ children: Influences on grandchildren, behavior management styles, and educational needs.
Objective: The aim of the study was to examine perspectives on helpingraise grandchildren among Turkish grandmothers who care for working parents’children. Background: Grandparents helping raise their grandchildren hasbecome increasingly common as a means to support women’s employment. InTurkey, the Büyükanne Projesi (Grandma Project) was carried out in 2017 withthe support of the government. This project [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
“I feel erased:” A qualitative analysis of grandparent experiences of parental alienation.
Objective: This study employs the life course perspective to explore thelived experience of grandparents who have no contact with their grandchildrendue to parental alienation (PA). Background: PA represents situations inwhich a child becomes estranged from one parent because of the manipulationof the other parent. The estrangement from the alienated parent leads to andmanifests inter alia [Read More…]
June 22, 2023
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