In addition, the spillover of negative aspect of work into an employees personal life can lead to job exhaustion, disruption of relationships with family and friends, loss of enjoyment, and increased stress. Workfamily conflict, positive spillover, and emotions among asian american working mothers by huiying tsai a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment. Worklife balance, workstudy interface, gender, stress, and. The ways in which wellbeing can be transferred have been categorized into two different mechanisms. Under work life balance other terms that are used to refer to this domain include, work family conflict, workfamily integration, family friendly policies. The relation between workfamily balance and quality of life. A case study methodology was utilised from an interpretive perspective and qualitative. When your work life and personal life are out of balance, your stress level is likely to soar. Spillover between work and personal life balance for. Worklife balance is a term commonly used to describe the balance that a working individual needs between time allocated for work and other aspects of life. It offers more inclusive approach to study worknonwork conflict compared to work family conflict.
In this study, the researcher sought to discover, analyze, and report work life balance experiences of working single mothers through extended narrative accounts, which answer the. Findings were analysed and the research found firstly that worklife balance policies were amended or drafted in response to external factors, such as legislation. The study examined attitudes toward worklife balance wlb using survey data from 292 employees in an australian university. There tends to be a reverse relationship between employee performance and work life conflict. Two types of organizational culture, supportive and innovative, were compared with regard to work tohome spillover. Work and family are considered the primary domains in a persons life. In this paper we investigate the relationship between organizational culture and worktohome spillover.
Spillover between work and personal life balance for lodging. However, it was only during the 1970s and 1980s that the concept of worklife. A student can access vast resources of information to complete assignments and a mother can see and talk to a daughter that is thousands of miles away. A study last june by the white house council of economic advisors showed a significant positive relationship between worklife balance practices and total factor productivity and recommended that wider adoption of such policies and practices may well benefit. The intersection of work and life research is fundamentally challenged by a lack of commonly established basic language and key constructs. Worklife balance, workstudy interface, gender, stress.
Based on these four factors, we classified individuals into four work life balance groups with differing levels of life. The interface between the work and family domains of life is studied across psychology subfields e. Role theory, role conflict theory, and spillover theory were utilized to examine how working single mothers experience work life balance and how they perceive it. Work life balance is a widely studied phenomenon in organizational literature that, over the past few decades, has tried to identify the various ways in which work and private life affect each other. Based on these four factors, we classified individuals into four worklife balance groups with differing. Mckim2 abstract agriculture teachers participate in various work and life roles, which can create challenges when trying to balance the pressures and responsibilities associated with each role. Yuchin jerrie hsieh, thomas pearson, hancheng chang and jin feng uen. One way to think about worklife balance is with a concept known as the four burners theory.
Workfamily border theory clark 2000 introduced workfamily border theory to explain how individuals manage both work and family domains and the borders between each in order to attain balance. Gender differences in hungary1 marta rado beata nagy gabor kiraly abstract1 it is crucial to understand the role that labor market positions might play in creating gender differences in worklife balance. Positive and negative spillover from work to home wiley online. Two types of organizational culture, supportive and innovative, were compared with regard to worktohome spillover.
The spill over theory proposes the most popular view of relationship between work and family. Spillover effects apply to situations in which there is a form of interrole conflict. The mediating role of selfefficacy and worklife balance abstract although the direct effects of workfamily enrichment on satisfaction are welldocumented, previous theoretical predictions and empirical findings of the relationship have been inconsistent. In line with the spillover theory staines, 1980, we argue that.
One way to think about work life balance is with a concept known as the four burners theory. There was a time when the boundaries between work and home were fairly clear. In addition, theories like the border theory, boundary theory, gender inequality theory and worklife management theory have also highlighted the relationship between work and family. Different people have different needs from work life balance, depending on hisher life. These include segmentation, compensation, spillover, border theory and role theory. Perceived worklife balance ability, job satisfaction, and. Organisational and human resource responses maria peate sorensen. That is, being involved in a work role may put strains on the family role, or vice versa. Worklife practices and organizational performance 3 making the link between worklife balance practices and organizational performance despite the popularity of worklife conflict as a topic of academic and practitioner debate, and the mounting prevalence of worklife balance practices a. Compensation theory refers to the efforts intended at. Worklife balance is the lack of opposition between work and other life roles. Challenges and solutions 2003 shrmresearch quarterly in a society filled with conflicting responsibilities and commitments, worklife balance has become a predominant issue in the workplace. The importance of worklife balance technology has improved peoples lives in many different ways. Worklife balance and job satisfaction among teachers.
Imagine that your life is represented by a stove with four burners on it. Mar 03, 2015 flexible work schedules and an eye to worklife balance are good for business. One domain of life can influence the other in either a positive or negative way. These include compensation, spillover and the border theory. The spillovercrossover model is used in psychological research to examine to impact of the work domain on the home domain, and consequently the transference of workrelated emotions from the employee to others at home particularly the partner. In this paper we investigate the relationship between organizational culture and work tohome spillover. But this dichotomy between work and play has been around since the middle of the 1800s.
Contexts shaping the meanings of work life balance. Richard koch took paretos principle and applied it to business, productivity, and life. The following documentation is a research report based on analyzing the impact of work life balance on the. The academic body of knowledge regarding worklife scholarship relies. Creating worklife balance among school teachers in secondary school in kampar, perak. The spillover theory argues that an individuals life domains are integrated. Understanding spillover experiences and gender social roles of working online students in their. Impact of health and recreation on worklife balance. People can live longer, healthier lives because of technological advancements. It is the state of equilibrium in which demands of personal life, professional life, and family life are equal. The academic body of knowledge regarding work life scholarship relies. Today, however, work is likely to invade your personal life and maintaining worklife balance is no simple task.
Negative and positive spillover between work and home. One theoretical approach to understanding this relationship is the spillover theory. Jun 29, 2018 when your work life and personal life are out of balance, your stress level is likely to soar. Spillover theory, sedmentation theory, compensation theory, instrumental theory, conflict theory and enrichment theory 20 table 3. Three major factors contribute to the interest in, and the importance of, serious consideration of worklife balance. Some of the theoretical frame works on work life balance include spillover, segmentation, compensation, congruence, enrichment, inter role. Last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the research pertaining to worklife balance wlb. According to author and journalist paul krassner in an interview in 1963, one of the aspects of happiness is when you can make as little distinction as possible between your work and your play. Work life balance and implications of spill over theory. Worklife balance imperatives for modern work organization. The term worklife balance is recent in origin, as it was first used in uk and us in the late 1970s and 1980s, respectively.
Work family conflict, positive spillover, and emotions among asian american working mothers by huiying tsai a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment. Last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the research pertaining to work life balance wlb. Finally, the value of the spillover variable is 1 if work has a negative effect on private life, 2 if it has a neutral effect and 3 if it has a positive effect. The theory addresses how domain integration and segmentation, border creation and management, bordercrosser participation, and relationships between border. Worklife balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy. Examples of outcomes associated with negative worktofamily spillover from the. According to this theory, workfamily balance is defined as satis. Journal of human resources in hospitality and tourism, 32, 6183. Wlb is pattern of individual combining their duties and dreams with.
Worklife balance consists of, but it is not limited to, flexible work arrangements that allow employees to carry out other life programs and practices. For example, a good work life balance for someone who is single with no children is different than a couple with children. Flexible work schedules and an eye to worklife balance are good for business. Perceived worklife balance ability, job satisfaction, and professional commitment among agriculture teachers tyson j. According to the theory, people are daily bordercrossers between the domains of work and family. The core of 8020 thinking is that 20% of your effort yields 80% of your results. Work and non work are two distinct domains of life that are lived separately and have no influence on each other. Karthikeyan 2 abstract in organizations and on the home front, the challenge of worklife balance is rising to the top of many employers.
A study on job stress xii list of tables page table 2. Work life balance means that individuals have successfully. Worklife balance is a widely studied phenomenon in organizational literature that, over the past few decades, has tried to identify the various ways in which work and private life affect each other. This article introduces workfamily border theory a new theory about workfamily balance.
Each burner symbolizes one major quadrant of your life. In subsequent sections of this article, we discuss the concept and measurement of workfamily balance, propose relations between workfamily balance and quality of life, and report the results of a study designed to examine these relations. Industrialorganizational io psychologists are interested primarily in how. The results indicated that in both worklife balance and workstudy interface, working female online students had higher levels of perceived stress than males, and women had a lower level of satisfaction with life than men in workstudy interface. Several theories have been proposed to enlighten the concept of work lifebalance wlb. There tends to be a reverse relationship between employee performance and worklife conflict. The term worklife balance was coined in 1986, although its usage in every day language was sporadic for a number of years. Work life balance wlb is balance between individual engagement and satisfaction both in work and family roles arima, 2016. Worklife balance worklife integration or balance is defined as a process for reconciliation of work, family and individual selfdemands and time.
Role theory, role conflict theory, and spillover theory were utilized to examine how working single mothers experience worklife balance and how they perceive it. The purpose of this study is to test a model of the relations between positive and negative work. The mediating role of selfefficacy and worklife balance abstract although the direct effects of workfamily enrichment on satisfaction are welldocumented, previous theoretical predictions and empirical findings of. Creating work life balance among school teachers in secondary school in kampar, perak. Making the link between worklife balance practices and. This implies that an additional categorization can be made between two different types of interrole conflict. Spillover between work and personal life balance for lodging managers. Organisational culture, as it relates to how and when employees can use wlb initiatives, was investigated. Work and nonwork are two distinct domains of life that are lived separately and have no influence on each other. Paretos theory of predictable imbalance has since been applied to almost every aspect of modern life.