Glossary

Founding Editors: Jessica Jackson & Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

The Glossary is prepared to clarify and/or define specific terms selected from entries in the Work and Family Encyclopedia as well as several other work and family sources. We look to multiple sources for appropriate definitions, including: 1) social science dictionaries, 2) Encyclopedia entry author(s)’ definitions, and 3) definitions excerpted from academic literature.

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A
AARP
Absenteeism
Ad Hoc Tele-Workers
ADA (Age Discrimination Act of 1975)
ADEA (Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967), Definitions(s) of
Adoption Benefit/Credit
Adult Day Care
Adult Day Health Care
Adult Independence
Adulthood
Adulthood Proper
Affective Commitment
Affiliative Family
Affinity Groups
After-school Arrangements
After-school Programs
Afterschool
Afterschool Arrangements
Afterschool Experience
Afterschool Setting or Environment
Ageism
Aging in Place
Aging Workforce
Alternative Shift Work
Alternative Work Arrangements
American Society on Aging (ASA)
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA)
Annualized Hours
AoA (Administration on Aging)
Applicant Pool
Area Agency on Aging (AAA)
Asset Building
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Assistive Technology
At-Home Infant Care (AHIC), Definition of
Atypical Working Hours
B
Baby Boomers
Baby UI / Unemployment Insurance (UI)
Back-up Child Care
Bad Jobs
Balanced Worker
Band Width
Beanpole Family
Behavior-Based Conflict
Benchmarking
Black Economy
Blended Family
Bonding Social Capital
Boomerang Entrepreneur
Boundary Work
Boundaryless Career
Brain Drain
Bridge Jobs
Bridging Social Capital
Buying Additional Time Off
C
Cafeteria Style Benefits Plan
Capital, Cultural
Capital, Economic
Capital, Human
Capital, Social
Capital, Symbolic
Care or Case Management
Career Hierarchy
Career Lattice
Career Prioritizing
Caregiver
Caregiving
Carework
CHAMPUS (Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services)
Child and Dependent Care Credit
Child care
Child Care Resource and Referral
Child Care Subsidy
Child Development
Child Rearing Leaves
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN)
Choice Biographies
Cloudworker
Co-worker Backlash
COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act)
Cohabitation
Cohort-Group, Definition of
Collaborative Interactive Action Research
Communal Relationships
Community Integration
Community Social Organization
Community, Relational
Community, Sense of
Community, Territorial
Commuter Marriage
Compensation Theory, Definition of
Compressed Work Week, Definition of
Concierge Services
Concrete Ceiling
Congregate Living Facility
Conservation of Resources Model
Conservatorship
Contingent Workers
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)
Continuous Commitment, Definition of
Contract Teleworker
Coparenting
Core Hours, Definitions(s) of
Corporate Citizenship
Corporate Culture
Crossover Effect
Cultural Globalization
Cultural Models
Culture Change
Custodial Care
Customer Site Workers
D
De Facto Parent
Decision Latitude
Defined Benefit Plan
Dependent
Dependent Care
Dependent Care Support
Deployment/Deploy
Differentiation
Dimensions of Singles-Friendly Culture
Disability
Disability
Disability Types
Disclosure
Distance Work
Diversity
Diversity Management
Doing Gender
Domestic Partners
Domestic Violence
Double Standard
DROP (Deferred Retirement Option Program)
Dual Agenda
Dual-centric/Dual-focus
Dual-Earner Couples
Dual-Military Marriage
Durable Power of Attorney
E
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
Ecological Systems Theory, Definition(s)
Economic Globalization
Educational Leave Laws
Educational Pathway, Definition of
Educational Trajectory, Definition of
EEOC (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
Elder at Risk (EAR) Program
Emotional Co-worker Support
Emotional Labor
Emotional Support
Employee
Employee Assistance (EA)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employee Relations
Employee Teleworker
Employer Income Tax Credits
Employer of Choice
Employer-Supported Child Care Definition(s)
Employer/Corporate Child Care
Employers
Employment Disability
Engagement
Enhancement Hypothesis
Enthusiastic Work Addicts
Equal Treatment Philosophy
ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act)
Ethnography
Exceptional Caregiving Responsibilities
Exchange Relationships
Exempt
Experience Sampling Method (ESM)
Extreme Work Hours
Exurbia
F
Face Time Culture
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)/Standard work week
Family
Family Adaptation
Family and Medical Leave Act
Family Diversity
Family Eco-System Model
Family Household
Family Leave
Family Leave for School Activities
Family Leave Insurance / Paid Family Leave
Family of Orientation and Family of Procreation
Family Responsibilities Discrimination
Family Responsibility
Family Support
Family support
Family Wage Gap
Family Well-Being
Family-Centered Care Model
Family-Friendly Backlash
Family-Friendly Community
Family-Friendly Policies
Family-Supportive Policies
Family-Supportive Supervisor
Fatherhood Regime
Feminization of Poverty
Fixed Day Schedule
Fixed Evening Schedule
Fixed Night Schedule
Fixed Schedules (a type of alternative shift schedule)
Fixed Shift Work
Flex-Leaves
Flexibility
Flexible Advancement
Flexible Benefit Plan
Flexible Working Hours
Flexplace
Flextime
Formal Flexibility
Formal Volunteering
Forward Rotating Schedules
Free-Agent Mindset, Definition of
Full-Time Equivalent Employment
G
Gateway Organizations
Gender
Gender Equality
Gender Identity
Gender Wage Gap
Generalized Compliance
Generation
Generation Gap
Generation X
Generation Y
Generational Diversity
Generational Group/Cohort
Glass Ceiling
Global Economy
Global Workforce
Globalization
Go-Outside-Home Disability
Good Part-Time Jobs
Gratitude Effect
Guardianship
H
Happy Workaholic
Health
Health and Well Being
Health and Wellness
Helping, Formal, Definition(s)
Helping, Informal
Hierarchy of Salience
Home Health Agency (HHA)
Home Health Care
Home-Based Telecommuting
Hospice
Hourly-Rate Employees
Hours Vary (type of schedule)
Household
Householder
Human Capital
Human Cost Approach
Human Development Index
Human Investment Approach
I
I-deals
Ideal Worker
Identity
Identity Construction
Identity Politics
Identity Salience
Identity Theory
In-Home Services
Incidental Absence
Inclusion
Income
Income-to-Poverty Ratios
Independent Living Units
Individual Development Accounts
Informal Flexibility
Informational Co-worker Support
Informational Justice
Institutionalized Discrimination
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL), Definition of
Instrumental Co-worker Support
Intellectual Capital
Interactional Justice
Intermediate Care Facility (ICF)
Interpersonal Justice
Interrole Conflict
Intimate Partner Violence
J
JHobby
Job Insecurity
Job Satisfaction
Job Segregation
Job Sharing
Job Strain
Job Stress
Jobs
JTPA (Job Training Partnership Act), Definitions(s) of
Justice, Distributive
Justice, Procedural
K
Knowledge Management
L
Labor-Management Relations
Leave Donation Banks / Leave Transfer Programs
Leave of Absence
Leaves
Life Course Fit
Life Politics
Life Satisfaction, Definition of
Life Stage(s)
Light Therapy
Line of Sight
Living apart together, Definiton(s) of
Living Wage
Long Work Hours
Long-Distance Caregivers
Low Income Working Family
Low-Income Workers
M
Marital Adjustment
Marital Quality
Marital Satisfaction
Market-Oriented Care Model
Maternal Employment
Maternal Profiling, Definition of
Maternal Wall
Maternity Leaves
Matrifocal Family
Matures/The Veterans
Meals on Wheels (MOW)
Median Income
Medicaid
Medicare
Medigap
Mental Disability
Mentor[ing]
Metrics
Microenterprise
Mid-Day Flex
Migrant Workers
Mildly-Ill Child Care
Minimum Wage
Minority Working Family
Mobile Workers
Morning Shift
Motherhood Wage Penalty
N
NCOA (National Council on Aging)
Negative Job to Home Spillover
Negotiable Atypical Working Hours
Neighborhood Work Centers
Neo-Traditional Division of Labor
Neoclassical Economics
New Moonlighters
Night shift
Nine/Eighty Work Week
Non-Linear Career Path
Non-Negotiable Atypical Working Hours
Non-Traditional Students, Definition of
Nonmetropolitan
Nonstandard Days
Nonstandard Work
NORC (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities)
Normative Commitment
Nuclear Family
O
Occupational Segregation
Older Worker
Ombudsman (ombudsperson):
On-Ramping/Off-Ramping
On-Site Child Care
On-Site Workers
Opt Out
Organization
Organizational Attractiveness
Organizational Citizenship Behavior
Organizational Commitment (OC)
Organizational Culture
Organizational Justice
Oscillating Shift
Outsourcing
Overemployment
Overtime
Overwork
P
PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly)
Paid Leave Studies / Legislative Commissions
Paid Sick Days / Sick Leave
Parental Leaves
Parenting in the Workplace, Definition of
Part time (Also, Reduced Hours)
Paternity Leaves
Pay Equity
Perceived Usability
Permeability
Personal Time Off Bank
Personality, Definition of
Phased Retirement
Phased Retirement
Phased Return From Leave
Physical Disability
Physical Violence
Playcheck
Political Globalization
Politics of Time
Polygynous or Polyandrous Family
Poverty
Poverty Thresholds
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Presenteeism
Primary Child Care Arrangement
Primary Shift Schedule
Privatized Care Model
Productivity Proxy Measures
Protean Career
Psychological Contract
Psychological/Emotional Violence
Q
Qualified Child Care Expenses
Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program (QMBs)
Qualifying Child (for Dependent Care Tax Credit)
Qualifying Relative (for Dependent Care Tax Credit)
Quality of Life
R
Ramp Up
Reason-Neutral
Reasonable Accommodation
Reciprocity Negotiation
Reconstructive Feminism
Recruitment
Reduced Hours
Reduced-Load Work
Referent
Reflexivity of Identities
Regular Tele-Workers
Reluctant Hard Workers
Remote Managing
Remote Workers
Remote/Virtual Work
Resilience
Resiliency
Retention
Retirement
Returning Students, Definition of
Role Blurring
Role Integration
Role Salience
Role Segmentation
Role Theory
Role Transitions
Role Transitions, Macro
Role Transitions, Micro
Rotating Schedules (a type of alternative shift schedule)
Rural
S
Sabbatical
Sandwich Generation
Satellite Offices
Schedule Creep, Definition of:
Seasonal Migrant Workers
Secondary Labor Market
Section 125
Section 8 Housing
Sectoral Growth Trends
Self-Care
Self-Care Disability
Self-Employed Workers
Sensory Disability
Serious Health Condition
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Violence
Shareholder Value
Shift Swapping
Shift Work
SHINE (Serving the Health Information Needs of Elders Program)
Short Term Time Off, Definition of
Single Employees
Singles
Singles-Friendly Culture
Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Skipped Generation Families, Definition of
Small Business
Social Capital
Social Constructionism
Social Identity Theory
Social Leverage
Social Networks
Social Security Disability Income (SSDI)
Special Health Care Needs
Special Needs
Special Treatment Philosophy
Spillover
Spillover Theory
Split Shifts
Spousal Impoverishment Law
Spousal Supports Provided by Employers
Spousal Wage Gap
Staggered Shifts
Stakeholder
Stakeholder Approach
Stalking
Standard North American family
State Disability Insurance / Temporary Disability Insurance / Paid Medical Leave
Staycation
Stem Family
Stepparent
Stereotypes
Straight Shifts
Strain-Based Conflict
Strategy Approach
Subfamily
Summer Hours
Sustainability
T
Tautological Relationship
Telecommute, Definition(s)
Telework
Telework/Telecommute
Temporal Norms
Temporary Workers
The Immigration Act of 1965
The Provider Myth
Three-Shift Working
Tied Movers
Tied Stayers
Time-Based Conflict
Traditional Family
Tramlines
Transition Rituals
Transnational Families
U
Underemployment
Unemployment
Unemployment Trap
Unions
V
V-Time
Valued Care Model
Variability of Employee’s Schedule, Definitions(s) of
Virtual Families
Virtual Teams
Virtual Work
Volunteerism
W
W-F Diversity
Wage Floor
Wages
Weberian Conceptualizations of the Routinisation of Action
Weekend Shift
Welfare to Work
Wellness
Women’s Initiative
Work
Work Addicts
Work-at-home
Work-Family Accommodation
Work-Family Backlash
Work-Family Balance
Work-Family Blurring
Work-Family Border Theory
Work-Family Boundary Ambiguity
Work-Family Compensation
Work-Family Conflict
Work-family Culture
Work-Family Enhancement
Work-Family Enrichment
Work-Family Fit
Work-Family Relationship
Work-Family Segmentation
Work-Family Spillover
Work-Home Interference and Work-Family Conflict
Work-Life
Work-Life Initiatives
Work-Poor
Work-Related Stress
Workaholism
Working Family
Working Poor
Workload
Workplace Child Care
Workplace Flexibility