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Handbook of Families and Work - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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Informationen zum Autor D. Russell Crane is Director of the Comprehensive Clinic and Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, School of Family Life, Brigham Young University. He recently received the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Cumulative Contributions to Marriage and Family Therapy Research Award. He is the author of Fundamentals of Marital Therapy, co-edited Handbook of Families and Health: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Handbook of Families and Poverty, and more than fifty scholarly articles and book chapters. E. Jeffrey Hill is Associate Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University. His research examines finding harmony between paid work and family life. He has authored more than forty scholarly articles and book chapters on this topic. Previously, he was a work and family subject matter expert at IBM, where he pioneered many flexible work options including: paternity leave, part-time employment, and telecommuting. Klappentext This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of work-family research. Zusammenfassung This handbook is designed to illuminate issues involved in the intersection of family life and paid employment from a broad range of disciplines. These contributions by leading national and international work-family scholars represent state-of-the-art summaries of work-family research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' Introduction by E. Jeffrey Hill and M. Russell Crane Part 1: Exploring the Work-Family InterfaceJob Demands, Spousal Support, and Work-Family Balance: A Daily Analysis of the Work-Family InterfaceWorking Families Under Stress: Socially Toxic Time Cages and ConvoysThe Effects of Job Stress on the Family: One Size Does Not Fit AllHow Family-Supportive Work Environments and Work-Supportive Home Environments Can Reduce Work-Family Conflict and Enhance FacilitationReducing Conceptual Confusion: Clarifying the Positive Side of Work and FamilyThe Intersection of Work and Family Demands and Resources: Linking Mechanisms and Boundary-Spanning StrategiesWork and Family Health in a Global ContextWhen Employees Must Choose Between Work and Family: Application of Conservation of Resources TheoryPart 2: Focus on Flexible Work Arrangements Workplace Flexibility: Implications for Worker Health and FamiliesFlexibility and Control: Does One Necessarily Bring the Other?Flexible Work Arrangements: Help or Hype?Part 3: Working Fathers, Working Mothers, Working Spouses, Working Grandparents Work and Family Conditions that Give Rise to Fathers' Knowledge of Children's Daily ActivitiesWhat Gives When Mothers Are Employed? Parental Time Allocation in Dual-Earner and Single-Earner Two-Parent FamiliesMaternal Employment and Child DevelopmentMothers' Shiftwork: Effects on Mothers, Fathers, and ChildrenTo Work and To Love: Bi-directional Relationships between Job Conditions and MarriageThe Interaction between Marital Relationships and RetirementParental Employment and Child Development: Variation by Child, Family, and Job CharacteristicsGeneration and Gender in the Workplace: A New Generation at WorkLiving through Work; Working through LifeWork-Family Facilitation: What Does It Look Like...

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Authors D. Russell Crane, D. Russell (EDT)/ Hill Crane
Assisted by D. Russell Crane (Editor), E. Jeffrey Hill (Editor), Jeffrey E. Hill (Editor)
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.06.2009
 
EAN 9780761844358
ISBN 978-0-7618-4435-8
No. of pages 518
Dimensions 152 mm x 222 mm x 38 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology
Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

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