Impact of Medical Mistakes: Navigating Work–Family Boundaries for Physicians and Their Families

2006 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Petronio
Keyword(s):  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Medical Mistakes

scholarly journals Toward Understanding Remote Workers’ Management of Work–Family Boundaries: The Complexity of Workplace Embeddedness

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 346-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly A. Eddleston ◽  
Jay Mulki
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Work Role ◽  
Family Role ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Work Conflict ◽  
Remote Workers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Family Integration ◽  
Work Family

This study employs a multi-method research design to examine how remote workers, or employees who work solely from home, manage the work–family interface. Our qualitative study revealed that working from home creates unique challenges for remote workers because the work role becomes embedded in the family domain such that their home comes to be associated with the work role, work physically and psychologically intrudes upon their family, and habits and norms form that induce remote workers to be preoccupied with work when home. Based on the qualitative findings, a model was proposed and tested via a questionnaire. Findings from this study of remote workers demonstrated that work–family integration increases family-to-work conflict and work-to-family conflict, and that an inability to disengage from work increases work-to-family conflict. Furthermore, strong work–family integration was found to be particularly harmful to male remote workers’ work-to-family conflict whereas a strong inability to disengage from work was found to be particularly harmful to female remote workers’ work-to-family conflict. Our findings therefore revealed that working solely from home encourages remote workers to overwork and to allow their work to infringe on their family role.

scholarly journals New Technologies Smart, or Harm Work-Family Boundaries Management? Gender Differences in Conflict and Enrichment Using the JD-R Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Ghislieri ◽  
Federica Emanuel ◽  
Monica Molino ◽  
Claudio G. Cortese ◽  
Lara Colombo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Work Family

Violating Work-Family Boundaries: Reactions to Interruptions at Work and Home

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 1284-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily M. Hunter ◽  
Malissa A. Clark ◽  
Dawn S. Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Cognitive Appraisals ◽  
Affective Reactions ◽  
Affective Events Theory ◽  
Boundary Violations ◽  
Work Family Conflict ◽  
Daily Diary Study ◽  
Affective Events ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Work Family

Our study builds on recent trends to understand the work-family interface through daily experiences of boundary management. In particular, we investigated boundary violations, or events in which family life breaches the boundary of work and vice versa. Our purpose was to enlighten the process between violations and relevant outcomes, building on the foundations of affective events theory and boundary theory. Specifically, we aim to (1) tease apart boundary violations at work and at home from the established construct of work-family conflict, (2) explore the affective events theory process through which cognitive and affective reactions to boundary violation events contribute to work-family conflict and satisfaction, and (3) examine positive and negative reactions to boundary violations. Findings from a 2-week daily diary study of 121 employed participants partially supported our predictions. Boundary violations contributed to general perceptions of work-family conflict both directly and indirectly through cognitive appraisals of thwarted goals and, in the work domain, negative affective reactions. Violations were also related to satisfaction through goal appraisal. Finally, benefits in the form of positive affect were found from boundary violations due to facilitated goals in the interrupting domain.

scholarly journals How Work–Family Research Can Finally Have an Impact in Organizations

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Ernst Kossek ◽  
Boris B. Baltes ◽  
Russell A. Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Policy Research ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Family Research ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Implementation Gaps ◽  
The Impact

Although work–family research has mushroomed over the past several decades, an implementation gap persists in putting work–family research into practice. Because of this, work–family researchers have not made a significant impact in improving the lives of employees relative to the amount of research that has been conducted. The goal of this article is to clarify areas where implementation gaps between work–family research and practice are prevalent, discuss the importance of reducing these gaps, and make the case that both better and different research should be conducted. We recommend several alternative but complementary actions for the work–family researcher: (a) work with organizations to study their policy and practice implementation efforts, (b) focus on the impact of rapid technological advances that are blurring work–family boundaries, (c) conduct research to empower the individual to self-manage the work–family interface, and (d) engage in advocacy and collaborative policy research to change institutional contexts and break down silos. Increased partnerships between industrial–organizational (I–O) psychology practitioners and researchers from many industries and disciplines could break down silos that we see as limiting development of the field.

scholarly journals The Pressure-Status Nexus and Blurred Work–Family Boundaries

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Schieman ◽  
Paul Glavin
Keyword(s):  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Work Family

scholarly journals Meaning and Structure in the Work and Family Interface

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Ba
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
Competing Demands ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Economic Constraints

This article explores the work and family life of dual-earner parents, how they manage these commitments and how they respond to competing demands on their daily life. The analysis of qualitative data suggests that parents manage the work-family boundaries according to the specific meaning that they attach to these spheres of daily life, but it also points to employment structures informing parents’ ‘focus’ on work and family and equally shaping these boundaries. Hence, this article assesses the relevance of these boundaries and how families mediate work and home. This mediating position is analysed through an approach whereby social and economic constraints become parameters informing parents’ sense of self and the meanings used in the work and home articulation. Then, the symbolic side of the work-family interface becomes crucial to understand issues concerning the meaningful order of daily life and the emotional attachments of families to these domains. On this point, I argue that mechanistic approaches to the work-family articulation that take in consideration solely chronometric parameters cannot explore these issues as deeply. This article then advocates a qualitative approach to the work-family interface in order to understand better its cultural co-ordinates and contexts.

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