Maintaining a sustainable work-life balance an interdisciplinary path to a better future
"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. Collabo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Northampton
Edward Elgar Publishing
2024, 2024
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| Series: | New horizons in management
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| Collection: | Edward Elgar eBooks Collection Business & Economics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Contents: Foreword / Han van Krieken
- Preface
- Part I: Setting the stage
- 1. Introduction to maintaining a sustainable work-life balance / Peter Kruyen, Stéfanie André, and Beatrice Van der Heijden
- 2. Questioning the balance of work and life: Some philosophical observations / Hans Schilderman
- 3. Work hard, play hard: On the reciprocity of work conditions and leisure lifestyles / Koen Van Eijck
- 4. Volunteering and work-life balance / Jessica Sowa
- 5. The impact of life and career stages on workers' career sustainability / Beatrice Van der Heijden, Ans De Vos, and Jos Akkermans
- 6. The value of work-life balance: Cross-country and cross-worker comparisons / Mara Yerkes and Karen van Hedel
- Part II: Workplace support
- 7. Combining work and informal caregiving: Workplace support to reduce work-care conflict / Ellen Verbakel and Cécile Boot
- 20. Work-family balance and mental well-being across Europe: Does a supportive country context matter? / Mark Visser, Gerbert Kraaykamp, and Stéfanie André
- Part V: Work-life balance and retirement
- 21. Sustainable work-life balance after retirement / Klaske Veth
- 22. Balancing retirement age and termination of employment / Mark Heemskerk
- Part VI: Individual strategies for fostering work-life balance
- 23. Taking care of your own wellbeing / Marjolein van de Pol
- 24. Impact of strategies and interventions for improving work-life balance / Marjolein van de Pol and Ron Hameleers
- 25. The vocational meaning and fulfillment survey: A new tool for fostering employees' work-life balance and career sustainability / Johanna Rantanen, Saija Mauno, Sanna Konsti, Sanna Markkula, and Gary Peterson
- 26. Sustainable work through crafting / Anne Mäkikangas, Jessica de Bloom, Philipp Kerksieck, and Miika Kujanpää
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 27. Resetting time and priorities: Communicative sensemaking and implications of homeworking / Michael Coker, Sarah Riforgiate, Emily Godager, and Inyoung Shin
- 8. Leadership support and work-life balance / Laura den Dulk, Samantha Metselaar, Joëlle van der Meer, and Brenda Vermeeren
- 9. Leadership, social support, and work-life balance of employees / Marloes Van Engen and Leire Gartzia
- 10. Work-life balance in essential and non-essential occupations in the Netherlands / Stéfanie André and Chantal Remery
- 11. The use of work-life arrangements in academia: A critical analysis of the potential to transform organizational norms / Inge Bleijenbergh
- Part III: Digitalization and homeworking
- 12. Digital regulation in the service of sustainable work-life balance / Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Tammy Allen, Ellen Ernst Kossek, Chang-Qin Lu, Gabriele Morandin, Sabrina Pellerin, Ashkan Rostami, and Marcello Russo
- 13. Signaling support for work-family balance in order to retain (tele)workers in hybrid work contexts: Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic / Pascale Peters and Melanie De Ruiter
- 14. Balancing work and life at home: A longitudinal analysis of working from home and work-life balance before and during the pandemic / Laura den Dulk, Joëlle van der Meer, Samantha Metselaar, and Brenda Vermeeren
- 15. Workplace flexibility and homeworking after covid-19 in public-sector and private-sector organizations / Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Palina Prysmakova
- 16. When you just can't "let it go": A study of work-to-life conflict and job performance among dutch public servants / Shelena Keulemans and Peter Kruyen
- Part IV: Working parents
- 17. Returning to work after childbirth: Maternal experiences and spillover-crossover effects on the infant / Roseriet Beijers
- 18. Engaged fathers: Towards a fatherhood premium or penalty? / Marc Grau-Grau and Stéfanie André
- 19. "dadpreneurship": A new practice among second-generation Chinese-dutch entrepreneurs to achieve work-life balance / Yidong Tao and Caroline Essers