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Achieving Work-Life Balance
Deadline for Papers: Closed
Special Issue Editors:
Dr Thomas Kallaith
School of Management, Marketing and International Business, Australian National University, Canberra ACT
thomas.kalliath@anu.edu.au
Dr Paula Brough
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt QLD
p.brough@griffith.edu.au
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Creating an organization where employees can achieve a good balance between work and family life is a growing concern for employees and organisations. Indeed, employer responsiveness in developing and implementing policies and programs that achieve work-family balance is becoming a key attribute distinguishing family-friendly organizations. Although much of the research attention to date has focused on demonstrating the negative effects of work-family conflict on individual well-being (e.g. increased job satisfaction, reduced stress) and organizational performance (e.g. reduced turnover), researchers have now begun to uncover the positive effects (facilitation) of work on family and vice versa. Some forward thinking organizations have identified the potential of work-family balance for creating competitive advantage and have put in place family-friendly policies with the intent of improving employee satisfaction, retention and organizational performance.
The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together organizational innovations and best practices for achieving work-family balance including proven strategic, human resource, and change management strategies for achieving work-family balance in organizations. This Special Issue will bring together contributions in the following areas:
- where we have been: retrospective/summary pieces that critically recap the history of different issues relating to achieving work-family balance;
- where we are now: papers, including case studies, that describe innovations in strategic, human resource and change management strategies for achieving work-family balance;
- where we should go next: papers that suggest new orientation for future research in work-family balance, including unresolved issues, leading edge ideas, etc.
- We encourage contributions to the Special Issue that feature important cross-cultural issues, including cross-national investigations that demonstrate achievement of higher levels of work-family balance, increased employee satisfaction, reduced stress, higher organizational performance, etc.
Interested scholars/practitioners are invited to send original manuscripts in the following categories:
- Feature articles that develop/integrate/translate theory and practice underlying work-family balance (5000 to 6000 words)
- Feature articles that outline original research relevant to where we have been, where we are and where we should go next (5000 to 6000 words)
- Practice articles/case studies that illustrate innovations to address difficult and unresolved issues in the implementation of work-family balance (2500 to 3500 words)
- Creative, thought-provoking essays (2500 to 3000 words)
In selection for the Special Issue, priority will be give to those papers that describe advances of knowledge in the area, effectively demonstrate a clear and concise message for creating work-family balance from both employee and employer perspectives, and are rigorous in logic and in support of ideas. Reviewers will be responding to the following criteria in their review of papers:
- Relevance of paper to the focus of the issue;
- Does the material represent a leading edge innovation in achieving work-family balance?
- Is the paper well connected with current theory and relevant literature?
- Is the methodology sound? Is the research design appropriate? (for empirical papers)
- Is the paper well written?
- Does the paper demonstrate a clear empirical link between organisational process variables (work-family conflict) and outcome variables (satisfaction, performance)?
- Does the paper make a significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the area of management and organization for achieving work-family balance?
Manuscript submissions should observe author guidelines for forwarding to: JMOEditorial@e-contentmanagement.com. Please indicate the special issue title in your covering email.
Papers will be double blind peer reviewed. Contributors may also be asked to review papers for this Special Issue and Referee Guidelines will be provided to assist this process.
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