Work and Family Encyclopedia

The Work and Family Encyclopedia is an online, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia entries are authored by scholars with expertise in the work and family area of study. The Encyclopedia is intended to serve as a resource to educators, students, workplace practitioners and policy makers. The WFRN is currently not actively seeking new Encyclopedia entries.  However, scholars interested in writing an entry for the Encyclopedia can contact the WFRN Executive Office at info@wfrn.org.

Current Editor

Stephen Sweet, Ph.D. (2021-Present)

Prior Editors

Samantha Ammons, Ph.D.  (2019-2020)

Stephen Sweet, Ph.D. & Judi Casey (2007-2010)

Ellen Kossek, Ph.D & Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D. (2002-2007)

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A
Adulthood: Changing Concepts and Definitions
After-hours Remote Work and Family Life: The Impact of Work-Extending Technology
After-School Care and Work-Life Issues
Alternative Work Arrangements
Asian Women and Work-Family Issues
B
Boundary Theory and Work-Family Border Theory Research: A Focus on Boundary Enactment
Boundary/Border Theory and Work-Family Integration
C
Career Development of Women
Career Stages
Career-Prioritizing in Dual Earner Couples
Child Care Subsidies in the United States: Government Funding to Families
Child Labor: A Historical Perspective
Co-worker Backlash and Support: Responses to Work-Family Policies and Practices
Collaborative Interactive Action Research
Collecting Organizational Data to Strengthen Work-Family Research
Communication Work-Life Research
Community as a Context for the Work-Family Interface
Commuter Couples and Distance Relationships: Living Apart Together
Compressed Workweek Schedules
Conservation of Resources Theory
Conservation of Resources Theory 2006
Corporate Decision-Making Process: How Organizations Decide to Adopt Work/Life Initiatives
Critical Analysis of the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon
Cross-Generational Issues in Organizations
Crossover of Stress and Strain between Spouses
D
Developing a Work/Life Strategy in a Multinational Enterprise (MNE)
Disabilities and Work-Family Challenges: Parents Having Children with Special Health Care Needs
Discrimination Against Employees Who Are Also Family Caregivers
Domestic Violence and Work: Legal and Business Perspectives
Dual Labor Market and Its Work-Family Implications
Dual-Earner Couples
E
Early Childcare Supports for Low-Wage Earning Families in the United States
Educational Careers, Returning to School and Work-Family Concerns
Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs): An Allied Profession for Work/Life
Ethnographic Methods and Work-Family Research
Experience Sampling Method: Measuring Work and Family Time Commitments
Extending Work-Family Concepts to the Lives of Latinas
F
Fair Labor Standards Act
Family and Medical Leave Act
Family Diversity
Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America
Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America (short version)
Family Well-Being
Family-Friendly Community
Family-Friendly Policies and Organizational Justice
Family-Friendly Workplace
Fatherhood: Comparative Western Perspectives
Fathers
Flexible Work Arrangements
Flextime
Flextime (short version)
G
Gender Crossing, Work-Family Configurations, and Career Outcomes
Gender: Work-Family Ideologies and Roles
Global Work, Global Careers, and Work-Family Issues
H
Helping Behaviors: Volunteerism and Taking Care of Kin
Heterosexism and Work-Family Concerns
Historical Perspective on Social Change
I
Identity Theory
Immigration and Work-Family Concerns
In-Depth Interviews
Information and Communication Technology, Work, and Family
International Perspectives on Organizational Performance
Interpersonal Aspects of Justice in Workplace Flexibility Enactment
J
Job Insecurity
Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment
L
Legal Professions and Job Demands: Implications for Work/Life Balance
Life Satisfaction
Low-Level Jobs and Work-Family Studies
M
Marital Satisfaction and the Work-Family Interface: An Overview
Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes
Measurement of Organizational Outcomes
Measurement of the Work-Family Interface
Methodological Considerations in Conducting Cross-National Work-Family Survey Research
Methodologies of Assessing Marital Success
Migrant Work and its Impact on Parents, Children, and Partners
N
Negative and Positive Crossover between Spouses
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Childcare Arrangements
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Work-Family Issues
O
Online Survey Research in the Work-Family Field: Basic Concepts and Definitions
Opting Out
Organizational Barriers
P
Parenting in the Workplace
Parents of Children and Youth with Disabilities: Providing Exceptional Care and Meeting Work-Life Challenges
Pay Equity
Perceived Usability of Work/Family Policies
Personality Traits of Workers and the Work-Family Interface
Phased Retirement and Reduced Hours in Late Careers
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Protean Career
Psychological Contract
R
Recruitment
Reduced Hours Work/Part-Time Work
Rituals of the Family
Rituals of the Workplace
Role Stress/Strain and Work-Family
Rural Families and Work-Family Issues
S
Sandwiched Generation
Separate Spheres: Institutionalizing an Ideology
Social Capital
Societal Cultural Models of Work and Family: An International Perspective
Spousal Supports Provided by Employers
Spousal Wage Gaps: Income Disparities in Couples
Stereotypes: The Impact of Prescriptions on Workers’ Experiences
T
Telecommuting
Telecommuting (short version)
Traditional Gender Roles
Transnational Families
U
Unions and Work and Family Integration
W
Welfare Reform and Work-Family Studies
Work and Family: A Cross-Cultural Psychological Perspective
Work and Family: Cross-National Comparisons
Work Time and Gender Inequities
Work-Family Culture
Work-Family Experiences and Physical Health: A Summary and Critical Review
Work-Family Guilt
Work-Family Interventions
Work-Family Linkages
Work-Family Policies and Gender Inequality at Work
Work-Family Role Conflict
Workaholism
Workaholism (short version)