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Creating Balance?

International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals

  2. Perspectives On The Work-Life Integration Of Professionals

  3. Antecedents and Consequences Related to Professionals’ Work-Life Integration

  4. Antecedents and Consequences Related To Professionals’ Work-Life Integration

  5. Mothers, Fathers, and Couples: Challenging Conventional Wisdom

  6. Corporate Strategies Facilitating Work-Life Integration

  7. Boundary Issues of Professionals’ Work-Life Integration

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About this book

A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today’s human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as “extreme workers” regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and ”the rest of life”.

This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany

    Stephan Kaiser

  • Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingols, Ingolstadt, Germany

    Max Josef Ringlstetter

  • , Institute for Socio-Management, Stirling Management School, Stirling, United Kingdom

    Doris Ruth Eikhof

  • University Nova of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Miguel Pina e Cunha

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Creating Balance?

  • Book Subtitle: International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals

  • Editors: Stephan Kaiser, Max Josef Ringlstetter, Doris Ruth Eikhof, Miguel Pina e Cunha

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16199-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-16198-8Published: 07 January 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42360-4Published: 11 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-16199-5Published: 04 January 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 328

  • Topics: Human Resource Management, Sociology, general, Behavioral Sciences

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