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Managers dealing with work‐family‐conflict: an explorative analysis
Kasper, Helmut; Meyer, Michael; Schmidt, Angelika - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 20 (2005) 5, pp. 440-461
Purpose – Most managers are heavily affected by the relationship between their professional and their private life … contradiction of private and professional requirements. Managers use a range of individual strategies to deal with this conflict … how managers perceive work‐life‐balance. Real types of handling work‐life‐conflicts are revealed. Based on these findings …
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Effects of role conflicts and role satisfactions on stress of three professions in Hong Kong: a path analysis approach
Chiu, Randy K.; Man, Janet S.W.; Thayer, Jerome - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 13 (1998) 5/6, pp. 318-333
included nurses, social workers, and managers in Hong Kong. Path analysis was conducted and its result showed a good fit of the …
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The Islamic work ethic as a mediator of the relationship between locus of control, role conflict and role ambiguity – A study in an Islamic country setting
Yousef, Darwish A. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 15 (2000) 4, pp. 283-298
The article examines the potential mediating role of the Islamic work ethic between locus of control, role conflict and role ambiguity. The study uses a sample of 397 employees in a variety of manufacturing and service organizations in an Islamic country, the United Arab Emirates. The results of...
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Putting the stress back into role stress: improving the measurement of role conflict and role ambiguity
Siegall, Marc - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 15 (2000) 5, pp. 427-435
Traditional measures of role conflict and role ambiguity assess the frequency with which a person experiences issues with role expectations. The cognitive model of stress developed by Lazarus and Folkman in 1984 emphasizes that a potentially stressful episode does not actually create distress...
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Job satisfaction as a mediator of the relationship between role stressors and organizational commitment
Yousef, Darwish A. - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 17 (2002) 4, pp. 250-266
This paper investigates the potential mediating role of job satisfaction between role stressors, namely role conflict and role ambiguity as sources of stress, on the one hand, and various facets of organizational commitment, namely affective, continuance and normative, on the other. A sample of...
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Work‐family conflict in a southern European country
Pilar de Luis Carnicer, María; Martínez Sánchez, Angel; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 19 (2004) 5, pp. 466-489
Shows the results of a survey about the antecedents of work‐family conflict in a sample of Spanish employees. Analyses and discusses the influence of job‐related and non‐related factors. The results indicate that both groups of factors are antecedents of work‐family conflict. Even though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014887877
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Organisational support and group efficacy
Osca, Amparo; Urien, Begoña; González‐Camino, Genoveva - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 20 (2005) 3/4, pp. 292-311
Purpose – To analyse the influence of three different types of organisational support (supervisor's and colleagues' support, training, and acknowledgement and rewards) on the implementation of teamwork systems. Design/methodology/approach – Main and buffer effects of social support were...
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Reconceptualising organisational role theory for contemporary organisational contexts
Wickham, Mark; Parker, Melissa - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 22 (2007) 5, pp. 440-464
implications for HR managers wishing to employ effective role‐taking/WLB policies in their workplace. Current WLB issues are well …
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The impact of work/family demand on work‐family conflict
Boyar, Scott L.; Maertz, Carl P.; Mosley, Donald C.; … - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 23 (2008) 3, pp. 215-235
Purpose – The current study seeks to argue that the constructs of work demand and family demand have been neglected in the work‐family conflict (WFC) literature. The authors aim to help clarify the definition and utilize direct measures of perceived work and family demand to test main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888039
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Effort‐reward imbalance, over‐commitment and work‐life conflict: testing an expanded model
Kinman, Gail; Jones, Fiona - In: Journal of Managerial Psychology 23 (2008) 3, pp. 236-251
Purpose – Although the effort‐reward imbalance (ERI) model of job stress has gained support in predicting employee health, it has rarely been examined in the context of the work‐home interface. This study aims to test an expanded ERI model in predicting work‐life conflict (WLC) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014888040