Exam - W&F Flashcards
Various roles and responsibilities that individuals have in their personal lives, distinct from their roles and responsibilities in the workforce.
Nonwork roles
A general sense that work and family fit together.
Balance
The teacher is happy because she loves her job. Her mood will affect her husband when she comes home.
Enrichment
There is a season for everything.
Seasonalizing
Clash between the demands on one’s work and family responsibilities (often related to allocation of time).
Time-based conflicts
You cannot be at different places at the same time.
Time-based conflicts
Difference in value or priorities between family members.
Value-based conflicts
A person who is completely dedicated to his/her job and always available for it.
The ideal worker (traditional worker)
A person, who is both dedicated to his/her job but also prioritizes his/her family.
Multi-faceted worker
The ideal worker conflict Men tend to “X” by hiding their deviance
Passing/pass
The ideal worker conflict Women tend to “X” their deviance
Revealing/reveal
Participating in one role (family) can be difficult because participating in other roles (work)
WFC
Demands of family roles somehow incompatible with work roles
FWC
Two team members working on a project with a tight deadline. On has a family event he wants to attend. The other believes they need to work late to meet the deadline.
Time-based conflicts
Sara is dealing with an overwhelming workload and feels under constant pressure. The stress is affecting her well-being at home, and she has no energy
Strain-based conflicts:
Mark and Sara are collaborating on a project. Mark is confident and takes a dominant approach, often interrupting Lisa during meetings. Lisa, on the other hand, is more reserved and prefers a collaborative communication style. Their different communication behavior result in behavior-based conflict, causing frustration and disruption in their working relationship.
Behavior-based conflicts
What helps reduce FWC
Flexibility and high income
Identity perspective/patterns
Seasonalizing
A strategy that individuals use to manipulate or change their perception and management of time in relation to their identities (Identity perspective/patterns)
Time-binding
Work and family enrichment
WF –> social capital
FW –> efficiency
Behavior between people
Crossover
Working in one domain (either work or family) positively influence and enhances the other domain
Spillover
An invisible barrier that prevent individuals from moving to higher levels of leadership and success in their carriers.
Glass ceiling effects
Take care of others
Caregiving
Self-discrepancy theory
- Actual self
- Ideal self
- Ought self
Male: Women are supposed to be tender and take care of the relationship. Being responsible, decisive, and ambitious is for men; being caring, and gentle is for woman.
Female: Relationship and quality of life is important. Both women and men can be tender and focus on a relationship. Being responsible, decisive, ambitious, caring, and gentle is for women and men.
Masculine and feminine society
The degree to which you perceive having time for yourself is important for well-being
Recovery time
High interruptions for NW to W but low interruption for W to NW
Family firster
High interruptions for W to NW but low interruption for NW to W
Work firster
Life patterns that vary and include both separator and integrator
Cycler
High interruptions for both NW to W and W to NW
Integrator
Low interruptions for both NW to W and W to NW
Seperator
Work-nonwork interruptions
Cross-role interruptions
The degree to which you feel in control as you manage the boundaries between your work life and normal life.
Boundary control
Care work
Workers who perform work in or for a private household.
Domestic employment/work
Variations that exist between countries and nations
Cross-nation differences
High level of “X” encourages high levels of occupational “X”, because people af faced with stong trade unions.
Family-friendly polices
FIW
Family interference with work
Cross-nation differences:
Cultural value (collectivism, power distance and uncertainty advoidance)
Regional cluster (work hours and work demands)
