Creating Balance? International Perspectives on the Work-Life Integration of Professionals /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kaiser, Stephan (Editor), Ringlstetter, Max Josef (Editor), Eikhof, Doris Ruth (Editor), Pina e Cunha, Miguel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Business.; Personnel management.; Behavioral sciences.; Sociology.; Business and Management.; Human Resource Management.; Sociology, general.; Behavioral Sciences.

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 work...

Table of Contents:

• I Work-life integration of professionals
• II Antecedents and consequences related to work-life integration.- III Mothers, fathers and couples: challenging conventional wisdom
• IV Corporate strategies facilitating work-life integration
• V Boundary perspectives on professionals’ work-life integration.