International perspectives on work and family: an introduction to the special section.

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• Personal Author:
  Allen TD ; Casper WJ ; Poelmans SAY
• Description:
  As hours worked and women's workforce participation increase globally, employees around the world are faced with the challenge of combining work and family roles. The growth in dual professional couples working for multinational firms has also led to work-home conflict in many parts of the world (Hill, Yang, Hawkins, & Ferris, 2004). Despite the global importance of work-family issues and repeated calls to study this topic in unique cultural contexts (Allen, 2013; Poelmans, 2003, 2005; Powell, Francesco, & Ling, 2009), work-family research has predominantly been conducted in Anglo societies. In fact, a review found that 75 per cent of work-family studies were based on data entirely from US workers (Casper, Eby, Bordeaux, Lockwood, & Lambert, 2007). The lack of studies on the work-family interface from countries outside the US is problematic given that the legal context in which individuals and organisations manage work-family concerns varies substantially. Cultural differences may also have an important influence on work-family issues as they impact both family and work values, interactions among family members, expectations associated with gender roles, and which relatives are defined as in-group family members. In this special section, we bring together four papers with the overarching goal of disseminating knowledge about how the work-family interface is both different and the same across distinct national contexts. Each of the papers contained in this issue examines work-family issues in at least five distinct national contexts. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Family Men Occupational Health Safety Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Families; Work-life balance; Humans; Men; Women; Employees; Workers; Work environment; Sociological factors
• ISSN:
  0269-994X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• Volume:
  63
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065242
• Citation:
  Appl Psychol 2014 Jan; 63(1):1-4
• Contact Point Address:
  Wendy J. Casper, College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington, 701 S. West Street, Suite 233, Box 19467, Arlington, TX 76019-0467
• Email:
  wjcasper@uta.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Sunshine Education and Research Center, University of South Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Applied Psychology
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/249379/cdc_249379_DS1.pdf
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