1. Work-home interface in a cross-cultural context
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IJmert Kant, Frans J. N. Nijhuis, Inge Houkes, Nicole W. H. Jansen, K. Putnik, Sociale Geneeskunde, RS: CAPHRI - R4 - Health Inequities and Societal Participation, Epidemiologie, and RS: CAPHRI - R3 - Functioning, Participating and Rehabilitation
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Intersectionality ,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ,Knowledge management ,Relation (database) ,Interface (Java) ,Strategy and Management ,Work/family border theory ,Context (language use) ,Work-home interface ,VALIDATION ,Domain (software engineering) ,cross-cultural ,Life ,work ,Management of Technology and Innovation ,0502 economics and business ,Pyramid ,050602 political science & public administration ,Work-home research framework ,Cross-cultural ,Sociology ,Business and International Management ,Workplace ,PERSPECTIVE ,family border theory ,PAID WORK ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,work-home interface ,Work and Employment ,BOUNDARIES ,WOMEN ,SP - Sustainable Productivity and Employability ,DEMANDS ,0506 political science ,Work (electrical) ,BALANCE ,Industrial relations ,ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences ,GENDER ,FAMILY CONFLICT ,business ,INTERSECTIONALITY ,Healthy Living ,050203 business & management - Abstract
With dual-income families on the increase, combining work and family obligations is a daily reality for many individuals. Unsatisfactory combinations of work and home duties can result in various unfavourable individual and organisational outcomes. Therefore, its proper understanding is essential in order to create adequate recommendations for interventions and prevention. There is a need for the development of theoretical frameworks that take cultural context into account in relation to work-home interface (WHI). In this paper a new framework is proposed; 'the pyramid of intersecting domains of WHI' that incorporates cultural context and other important work-life interface aspects. It builds on empirical findings of the intersectionality and work/family border theories. The pyramid consists of the following domains: the domain of work and home characteristics, the roles domain and the cultural domain, which intersect to determine the fourth side of the pyramid, that is, the observed WHI. Based on the pyramid several research propositions can be formulated. Implications for researchers and HR professionals are provided.
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- 2020