Working to live or living to work? Work/life balance early in the career

By J. Sturges, D. Guest. 2004

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Work-Life Balance: an Integrative Review (2017, background): “Furthermore, research on work and family roles has shown that work-family role conflict is associated with life dissatisfaction (e.g., Edwards and Rothbard 2000; Fu and Shaffer 2001; Holahan and Gilbert 1979; Sturges and Guest 2004), as well as low martial and family satisfaction and symptoms of low”
The Next Generation of Career Success: Implications for HRD (2008, positive): “Perhaps the most pervasive research finding regarding young workers is their desire for balance in life (Lewis, Smithson, & Kugelberg, 2002; Loughlin & Barling, 2001; Smola & Sutton, 2002; Sturges & Guest, 2004).”
Self-Leadership: A Process for Entrepreneurial Success (2007, background): “A work-life imbalance often emerges and develops in younger workers who view putting in long hours on the job as essential for establishing themselves and building toward their long-term career success (Sturges & Guest, 2004).”
Work-life balance – a neglected issue among Austrian female expatriates (2010, background): “Finally, work attitudes and values are changing with younger generations putting less priority on their career and more priority to achieving a balance between work life and home life (Guest 2001 ; Sturges and Guest 2004 ).”
The Psychological Contract: A Critical Review (2006, background): “…reactions to contract violation, in terms of organizational commitment (Lemire and Rouillard, 2005), work satisfaction (Sutton and Griffin, 2003), work-life balance (Sturges and Guest, 2004), job security (Kramer et al. 2005), motivation (Lester et al. 2001) and stress (Gakovic and Tetrick, 2003).”
Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, background): “Organization behavior scholars, for instance, are keen to explore topics such as work-life balance (Beauregard & Henry, 2009; Sturges & Guest, 2004) or job and work design (Parker, 2014), which can be essential to one’s well-being (Haar, Russo, Suñe, & Ollier-Malaterre, 2014; Kinman & Jones, 2008).”
The Pleasant Life, the Engaged Life, and the Meaningful Life: What about the Balanced Life? (2009, background): “Research on imbalance between work and family roles has shown that work-family role conflict is associated with life dissatisfaction (e.g., Bedeian et al. 1988; Collins and Killough 1989; Edwards and Rothbard 2000; French and Caplan 1973; Fu and Shaffer 2001; Holahan and Gilbert 1979; Lewis and Coop”
Using multi-item psychometric scales for research and practice in human resource management (2018, background): “For example, Sturges and Guest (2004) examined work–life balance in recent graduates, tracking them from before they started work and into their first appointment, by administering questionnaires at three time points six months apart.”
Millennials’ Career Perspective and Psychological Contract Expectations: Does the Recession Lead to Lowered Expectations? (2010, background): “This suggests that Millennials are willing to put in extra effort and hours and lessen their social time at work (e.g., coffee breaks) to help the organization succeed in difficult times (Sturges and Guest 2004).”