Work-life balance and employee engagement have become two considerable concepts that capture the attention of both academics and practitioners. The prime concern of this paper is to examine the relationship between work-life balance and employee engagement among flight attendants in Egypt. The study focuses on the positive side of work life balance (work life polices and supervisor support) and how they sustain employee engagement. Primary data was conducted using a questionnaire survey of flight attendants in Egyptian airlines. The findings indicated that both work life balance policies and supervisor support were positively correlated with the job engagement of the Egyptian flight attendants. The study proved also that the supervisor support effect on the employee engagement was higher than the effect of work life policies. Based on these results, this study can be concluded that work life balance had a positive significant impact on the engagement of the Egyptian flight attendants. Finally, this study concludes by discussing managerial implications and providing suggestions for future research.

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Women in tourism are still concentrated in the lower-status and lowerpaid jobs. Yet the integration of women in the labor market is still in process, as gender inequality at the workplace is still found. Therefore, the current paper aims to investigate the predictors and outcomes of women empowerment in Egyptian travel agencies. Furthermore, it examines the mediating effect of perceived fairness in the relationship between women empowerment and employee outcomes. PLS-SEM was employed to analyze the perceptions of 746 females working in some Egyptian travel agencies at different position levels, either as employees, managers, or owners. The findings revealed that organizational culture and organizational support are considered predictors of women empowerment, while performance and organizational citizenship behaviors are identified as outcomes of women empowerment. Moreover, the results showed that perceived fairness plays a partial mediating role in the link between women empowerment, performance and organizational citizenship behaviors. The results hold significant implications for enhancing women's empowerment. Limitations and future research are also discussed.

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This study investigates corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspective of small medium tourism enterprises (SMTEs) in Egypt. The basic aspects of the investigation were CSR definitions, dimensions, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) importance and characteristics, motivations and benefits from engaging in CSR, the influence of managerial SMEs' characteristics on adopting CSR and the challenges faced. This research used a quantitative method approach to collect data from the owners and managers of (350) SMTEs in Cairo and Giza Category (A) using questionnaire forms. The results of the empirical study showed that although the vast majority of SMTEs were not familiar with the term CSR, most of them were practicing some of its activities. The results also revealed that only the size and age of SMTEs influenced their CSR implementation. While, in relation to SMTEs' managers, only their age and the experience influenced their attitude toward CSR.Finally, this study provided some recommendations that could be considered as guidelines for SMTEs.