The personal-time bankruptcy: A case study of how working-at-home employees justifies work-life imbalance by time-lending
(2016) BUSN49 20161Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- Title:
The personal-time bankruptcy: A case study of how working-at-home employees justifies work-life imbalance by time-lending
Course:
BUSN49, Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and
Change – Master level, Business Administration.
Author:
Jonas Sennerstig
Advisor:
Jens Rennstam
Key words: Work-life-balance, at-home workers, technology, boundary less work, boundary management, border theory, work-life spillover
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to expand on and to nuance the understanding of the work-life balance literature and how at-home workers perceives work-life-balance.
Methodology:
The study has used a qualitative research method with an interpretative knowledge view in order to gain... (More) - Title:
The personal-time bankruptcy: A case study of how working-at-home employees justifies work-life imbalance by time-lending
Course:
BUSN49, Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and
Change – Master level, Business Administration.
Author:
Jonas Sennerstig
Advisor:
Jens Rennstam
Key words: Work-life-balance, at-home workers, technology, boundary less work, boundary management, border theory, work-life spillover
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to expand on and to nuance the understanding of the work-life balance literature and how at-home workers perceives work-life-balance.
Methodology:
The study has used a qualitative research method with an interpretative knowledge view in order to gain in-depth understanding of the perception of work-life-balance by the individual. This has been done through in-depth semi structured interviews at a student Nation in Lund.
Theoretical perspectives:
The study takes its starting point in the existing work-life-balance literature but questions border and boundary theory, that is based on the assumption of work and non-work being physically separated, in order to further investigate how the lack of spatial separation between the two domains affects work-life-balance.
Conclusions:
The results of the study implicate that a lack of spatial distance between work and home has a significant impact on how work-life balance is perceived due to the difficulties to disengage from work and to establish boundaries between the two domains. Further, time-loans are found to be a technique used to obtain work-life-balance. The author argues that these loans also can take more extreme forms and introduces the concepts of “time-pawning” and “time-bankruptcy”. (Less)
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- 2016
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- Work-life-balance, at-home workers, technology, boundary less work, boundary management, border theory, work-life spillover
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The personal-time bankruptcy: A case study of how working-at-home employees justifies work-life imbalance by time-lending
Course:
BUSN49, Degree Project in Managing People, Knowledge and
Change – Master level, Business Administration.
Author:
Jonas Sennerstig
Advisor:
Jens Rennstam
Key words: Work-life-balance, at-home workers, technology, boundary less work, boundary management, border theory, work-life spillover
Purpose:
The purpose of this study is to expand on and to nuance the understanding of the work-life balance literature and how at-home workers perceives work-life-balance.
Methodology:
The study has used a qualitative research method with an interpretative knowledge view in order to gain in-depth understanding of the perception of work-life-balance by the individual. This has been done through in-depth semi structured interviews at a student Nation in Lund.
Theoretical perspectives:
The study takes its starting point in the existing work-life-balance literature but questions border and boundary theory, that is based on the assumption of work and non-work being physically separated, in order to further investigate how the lack of spatial separation between the two domains affects work-life-balance.
Conclusions:
The results of the study implicate that a lack of spatial distance between work and home has a significant impact on how work-life balance is perceived due to the difficulties to disengage from work and to establish boundaries between the two domains. Further, time-loans are found to be a technique used to obtain work-life-balance. The author argues that these loans also can take more extreme forms and introduces the concepts of “time-pawning” and “time-bankruptcy”.}},
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