Time to Reconsider Work: Dual-Earner Couples’ Work-Related Adaptive Strategies and Preferences for Reduced Work Hours

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronit Waismel-Manor ◽  
Asaf Levanon
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Strategies ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Dual Earner

Personal Web Page Usage in Organization

2004 ◽  
pp. 28-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoonky Lee ◽  
Younghwa Lee ◽  
Yongbeom Kim
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Business Professionals ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
Human Attitude ◽  
Personal Web Usage

This chapter presents an empirical investigation of why employees use the Internet for personal purpose during work hours. We are especially interested in perceptual difference between personal Web usage groups and non-personal Web usage groups in the context of non-work-related usage of the Internet. Drawing from previous studies in behavioral intention and human attitude, criminology, and moral and ethical decision-making, a comprehensive model was developed and tested through a field survey of 546 business professionals.

scholarly journals Too much or too little work? Couples’ actual and preferred employment patterns and work hours mismatches in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3-2018) ◽  
pp. 269-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Steiber ◽  
Barbara Haas
Keyword(s):  
Strong Association ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
School Age ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Cohabiting Couples ◽  
Low Education

The most widely cited European data on work hours mismatches at the couple level date back to the 1990s. The general gist of analyses of these data was that ‘overworked’ dual-earner couples frequently preferred work hours reductions, especially those with childcare responsibilities. This study uses more recent data from the European Social Survey (2010-12) to update the available evidence on actual and preferred breadwinner models and on the occurrence and determinants of work hours mismatches among couples in Europe. The focus is on differences between demographic groups and countries in the degree to which cohabiting couples are either underemployed (working fewer hours than desired) or overemployed (working more hours than desired). Our analyses show that about one third of couples are underemployed, while only one in ten report being overemployed. We identify low education and the presence of children below school age as risk factors for underemployment, whereas highly educated women and fathers of teenagers tend to be overemployed. In a comparison of 16 European countries, we find couples in Greece, Ireland, Slovenia, and Spain to be most at risk of experiencing underemployment – in the countries that were most strongly affected by the recession. The effects of children on the experience of hours mismatches are found to vary across Europe – a particularly strong association of children below school age with parental underemployment is observed in Central and Eastern Europe, Finland, and Germany and a particularly weak one in Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, and Sweden.

scholarly journals Fighting for time: Spillover and crossover effects of long work hours among dual‐earner couples

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaohong Xu ◽  
Yisheng Peng ◽  
Peng Zhao ◽  
Richard Hayes ◽  
William P. Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Work Hours ◽  
Crossover Effects ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Long Work Hours

Women's Jobs and Family Adjustment

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaya S. Piotrkowski ◽  
Paul Crits-Christoph
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Job Security ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Family Adjustment ◽  
Work Lives ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Multiple Characteristics ◽  
The Relationship

THIS study investigated the relationship between multiple characteristics of women's jobs and their family adjustment in a sample of 99 women in dual-earner families. Six work-related variables were considered simultaneously as predictors of family adjustment: intrinsic job gratification, satisfaction with job security, job-related mood, time spent at work, occupational prestige, and salary. The results were consistent with the hypothesis that women's paid work lives influence their family adjustment. Women's experiences of their work were significantly related to two of three measures of family adjustment. Salary was negatively associated with satisfaction with family relations for women in low-status occupations only. Time spent at work and occupational prestige showed no significant associations with reported adjustment. Of the three indicators of family adjustment, marital satisfaction appeared to be relatively immune from work influences. We hypothesized that the marital relationship may be less sensitive to women's paid work than are other aspects of their family relations.

scholarly journals An empirical assessment of employee cyberslacking in the public sector: The social engineering threat

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilnelia Hernández ◽  
Yair Levy ◽  
Michelle M. Ramim
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Empirical Assessment ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The Social

Employees spend time during work hours on non-work related activities including visiting ecommerce Websites, managing personal email accounts, and engaging in e-banking. These types of actions in the workplace are known as cyberslacking. Cyberslacking affects employees’ productivity, presents legal concerns, and undermines the security of the employer’s network. This research study addressed the problem of cyberslacking in the public sector, by assessing the ethical severity of cyberslacking activities, as well as how employees perceived that the frequency of such activities occurred by their co-workers. Participants from public sector agencies were asked to report about their amount of time spent and frequency of cyberslacking, what they report about their co-workers’ amount of time spent and frequency of cyberslacking, as well as their perceived ethical severity of cyberslacking in the workplace. Comparisons of the measures were also conducted. Results from 183 participants indicate that employees report their co-workers to engage in cyberslacking significantly higher than what they reported about themselves, while ethical severity of cyberslacking was not considered to be high. Discussions and implications for future research are provided.

scholarly journals An Online Survey on Job Satisfaction among Indian Radiologists - Under-Studied Journey from Promised Land to Paradise Lost

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (42) ◽  
pp. 3633-3638
Author(s):  
Sudha Kiran Das ◽  
Vikram Patil ◽  
Anupama Chandrappa ◽  
Sachin Thammegowda ◽  
Sachin Prabhakar Shetty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Subspecialty Training ◽  
Income Risk ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Work Pressure ◽  
Burn Out ◽  
Medical Colleges

BACKGROUND Globally, radiodiagnosis is considered as one of the most sought after specialty in the field of medicine, based on the perceived notion that it is a high income, risk-averse, white-collared job. Radiologists are touted as being one of the highest paid specialists with defined work-hours; however, the ground reality appears to be in contradiction, particularly in the Indian context. The purpose of this study was to objectively assess the current day situation amongst the Indian radiologists. This gender-neutral survey not only dispels many of the prevailing assumptions but also brings to clear light the issues that assail the radiologist on a day to day basis. METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed with Google survey forms and collected data was obtained from 370 radiologists regarding various parameters, such as the workplace, years of experience, work hours per day, monthly income, peer, and work-related pressures, and their overall perceived happiness quotient. Issues concerning threats to radiology, the need for super or subspecialty training were also addressed. RESULTS Most of the young radiologists opted to work in either diagnostic centers or corporate hospitals as salary drawn was considerably higher than their counterparts in medical colleges. Nearly half the radiologists working at medical colleges augmented their income by working in diagnostic centers. Nearly 2/3rds of the young radiologists work for an average of 10 hours per day, six days a week with a take home salary of approximately 1 – 2 lakhs per month. Only 5 % of the radiologists stated that they were most happy with their work environment, nearly 57 % of them had some kind of occupational hazard and this was directly related to the years of work. Burn out predominated amongst the upcoming radiologists with less than 5 years of work experience and this was found to be compounded by work hours, work pressure and inadequate compensation. CONCLUSIONS Today, young radiologist is caught in a whirlpool of change that has not only threatened the “concept of a settled, satisfied, specialist”, furtherance to this, commoditization of radiology has led to increase in work hours, work pressure, leading to dissatisfaction and early burn out. KEY WORDS Radiologist, Psychosocial Aspects, Burn Out, Artificial Intelligence.

Bidirectional Relationships Between Work and Sleep

2019 ◽  
pp. 351-372
Author(s):  
Chandra L. Jackson ◽  
Soomi Lee ◽  
Tori L. Crain ◽  
Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Sleep Health ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Support At Work ◽  
Stress Work

This chapter focuses on how work and work experiences such as occupational demands, job autonomy, job stress, work hours, and work-related discrimination influence sleep across populations. A model of sleep and work is offered that accounts for the role of social factors. Empirical evidence demonstrates how these work factors such as occupational demands, autonomy, work schedules, long work hours, selection or placement into labor market sectors, work stress, social support at work, and work-related discrimination impact sleep health. Epidemiological evidence is further provided for sleep health disparities in the work–sleep relationship by race/ethnicity and immigration status.

scholarly journals Child labor in the US

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1029-1037 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wegmann
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
Safety Information ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Hours ◽  
Workplace Health ◽  
Work Related ◽  
School Year

This paper presents a report on child labor in the U.S. that reviewed the positive and negative aspects of work for youth. Working was found to provide young people with valuable lessons about responsibility, punctuality, interacting with people and learning about money management, increasing self-esteem and helping them become independent and skilled. Research findings suggested that working during high school may contribute to increased rates of employment and better wages up to a decade after high school completion. Research concerning the hazards associated with work indicated that, each year, tens of thousands of young people are seen in hospital emergency departments for work-related injuries, hundreds require hospitalization, and more than 70 die of work-related injuries. Long work hours during the school year were associated with problem behaviors. The report points out some important questions: updating regulations on allowable work hours, eliminating less stringent regulation of agricultural work, revising outdated rules against hazardous work, developing and implementing a comprehensive plan for monitoring the injuries, illnesses, and hazards, building workplace health and safety information into school-based programs, and developing criteria for designating "commendable workplaces for youth."

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