Bridging between academia and the workplace: lessons learned about translational research on work-family balance

Houlfort, Nathalie; Lefrançois, Mélanie; Bernstein, Stéphanie; Messing, Karen; Gravel, Anne-Renée; Blanchette-Luong, Vanessa

doi:10.1080/13668803.2019.1629877

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“…The work-life balance concept seems to be elusive for many people in academia, especially when you start on a new tenure-track position. Trying to balance work, family, and friends is challenging in a competitive work environment that requires many diverse tasks, with no long-term solution available to cope with this challenge (Houlfort et al, 2019). Flexibility, communication, and mutual trust with institutions and colleagues are required for work-life balance (Houlfort et al, 2019).…”

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“…Trying to balance work, family, and friends is challenging in a competitive work environment that requires many diverse tasks, with no long-term solution available to cope with this challenge (Houlfort et al, 2019). Flexibility, communication, and mutual trust with institutions and colleagues are required for work–life balance (Houlfort et al, 2019). Ip et al (2020) demonstrated that female faculty members were more stressed, less fulfilled with their faculty positions, and less content with work–life balance than their male counterparts.…”

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Navigating the Demands of Tenure-Track Positions

Love

Morris

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2022

Health Promotion Practice

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Navigating a tenure-track position can sometimes feel like walking the high wire, teetering from side to side wondering when that next overload course, research paper, or service project will topple you from your scholarly perch. Many of these positions lack significant formalized mentorship and guidance to help navigate and balance the workload of academia. Even with experience, the tenure and promotion process can be ambiguous. Workload balance is imperative to achieve tenure and promotion. Once you are in a tenure-track position, it is important to balance and understand the tenure and promotion process and its value. We provide a roadmap for early career academic professionals on how to balance their teaching, research, and service to obtain tenure and promotion. We inform the next generation of academicians about how researchers address public health problems through teaching, scholarship, and service. Finally, we explore five critical areas relevant to successful tenure and promotion: (a) classification and organizational culture, (b) the “Big Three” (teaching, research, and service), (c) professional development and network, (d) mentorship, and (e) work–life balance.

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Section: Faculty Work–life Balancementioning

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Navigating the Demands of Tenure-Track Positions

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Morris

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2022

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“…The answer to this question brings conceptual clarity that has eluded researchers for decades, thereby enhancing construct validity and promulgation of systematic research (Casper et al, 2018). Specific insight into the everyday meaning of work-family balance is essential for generating practical solutions (Houlfort et al, 2019) to support the Qatari National Vision 2030, and to address the dearth of work and family research in Arabic regions of the world (Shockley et al, 2017).…”

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A Conceptual Model of Work-Family Balance Among Qatari Adults

Hong

Abdelmoneium²,

Badahdah

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Work-family balance is shrouded in conceptual ambiguity and WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) understanding, which impedes scientific advancement and subsequent practical solutions. This qualitative study constructs a conceptual model of work-family balance among Qatari adults. Based on grounded theory methods, in-depth interview data from 20 Qatari adults (10 women and 10 men) indicated that work-family balance means meeting both work and family expectations. “Work” is driven primarily by family financial needs and therefore it must be undertaken for the sake of the family. However, work-family balance is an idealized goal; the demands of work, rising needs of the family, and insufficient supports make work-family balance impossible. Nevertheless, working adults actively pursue work-family balance through negotiation of expectations with role-related partners and adaptation to varying circumstances in work and family domains. Overall, the findings suggest that work-family balance is viewed by Qataris as a socially and relationally constructed concept.

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