The constraints of a ‘work–life balance’ approach: an international perspective
By S. Lewis, R. Gambles, Rhona Rapoport. 2007
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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science
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- Work‐life integration: experiences of mid‐career professional working mothers (2008, background): “Lewis et al. (2007) argue that there is a need to develop a terminology within the work-life balance field that broadens the focus and better captures the more fundamental challenges that are currently obscured by the WLB discourse.”
- Overview of work-life balance discourse and its relevance in current economic scenario (2010, unknown): “Focus on ‘work-family’ and ‘family-friendly policies’ broadened to a larger ‘worklife balance’ discourse (Lewis et al. 2007).”
- Flexible Working and Performance: A Systematic Review of the Evidence for a Business Case (2011, unknown): “Furthermore, the real degree of choice open to the employee has been neglected and needs to be assessed in context (Bielenski et al. 2002; Lewis 2003; Lewis et al. 2007).”
- Work–life balance: eastern and western perspectives (2012, background): “Lewis, Gambles and Rapoport ( 2007 ) provide an international perspective on the constraints of a WLB approach and argue that in many contexts, the sustainability of current forms of paid work is in question, for a number of reasons: ”
- Employee work–life balance outcomes in Ireland: a multilevel investigation of supervisory support and perceived organizational support (2013, background): “Thus, we are interested in exploring how supervisor and organizational support and HR manager attitudes impact on role conflict, job satisfaction, family satisfaction and turnover intentions, which are important WLB outcomes as identified in the literature (Thomas and Ganster 1995 ; Allen 2001 ; L”
- Organizational interventions for balancing work and home demands: An overview (2010, background): “The implications for research, including the necessity for a broader international perspective and recognition of the common constraints to work-life balance policy adoption, are also discussed elsewhere by these researchers (eg, Lewis, Gambles, & Rapoport, 2007 ; Lewis, Rapoport, & Gambles, 2003 ”
- Editorial: work-life balance: a matter of choice? (2009, background): “It encourages quick-fix solutions that do not address fundamental inequalities, and that therefore shift responsibility for balancing work and home life onto individuals (Burke, 2004; Lewis et al., 2007).”
- Work-life balance of UK construction workers: relationship with mental health (2020, background): “Further, poor WLB can cause lower birth rates, lowering population sustainability, which results in increased stress and decreased quality of life among workforces (Lewis et al. 2007).”
- Fathers at Work: A Ghost in the Organizational Machine (2012, methodology): “…(perhaps inadvertently) developed and written to be utilised in conjunction Volume ** Number ** ** 2012 © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd with motherhood, rather than fatherhood (Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2009, p. 10; Lewis et al., 2007; North West Women and Work Task Force, 2010, p. 1).”
- Are Flexible Work Arrangements Associated with Lower Levels of Chronic Stress-Related Biomarkers? A Study of 6025 Employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2019, background): “The suggestion that flexible working arrangements may not have any real effect on women’s well-being (Lewis et al., 2007) did not hold.”