Chapter 4 Organizational Influences on Work–Home Boundary Permeability: A Multidimensional Perspective

When forgetting what happened at work matters: The role of affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, and self-control in work–family conflict and enrichment.

“…We show that it is not only whether individuals draw thick or thin lines between work and family but also how they draw the lines between work and family. Doing so, our results lend initial empirical support for claims by Allen et al (2014) and by Capitano et al (2019) and help to disentangle inconsistent findings regarding managing the boundaries between work and family (Li et al, 2013;Kossek et al, 2012;Powell & Greenhaus, 2010). As expected, we found that affective rumination and problem-solving pondering were differentially associated with WFE, yet unexpectedly, we also found differences in their association with WFC in both studies.…”

“…To understand further the dual impact of integration behavior on desired and undesired consequences for the family role, we build on Allen et al (2014) as well as Capitano et al (2019), who differentiated between the various forms of integration. In the present study, we focus on work-related rumination, a cognitive preoccupation about adverse events in the work role while in another role, such as the home role (Cropley, Michalianou, Pravettoni, & Millward, 2012).…”

“…Decades of research have demonstrated that work experiences affect family life and that family experiences influence life at work (Allen & Martin, 2017), and these mutual influences have probably never been more visible than during the COVID-19 pandemic (Rudolph et al, 2020). The recognition that work and family roles are inevitably intertwined has focused researchers’ attention on boundary management, the process by which employees establish, preserve, and alter the boundaries around work and family roles so as to maintain effective performance in these roles (Capitano, McAlpine, & Greenhaus, 2019). Indeed, as Allen and colleagues have observed, “The basic questions of interest are how individuals draw the line between and transition across work and family roles in an effort to achieve work–family balance” (Allen, Cho, & Meier, 2014, p. 100).…”

Staying in touch, yet expected to be? A diary study on the relationship between personal smartphone use at work and work–nonwork interaction

“…In this way, the identification of explaining mechanisms between smartphone use and WNI theoretically contributes to border theory in that it reveals that the social experiences that smartphones allow for, that is, social benefits and social costs of communication, transmit the consequences of border permeations on WNI. While border permeability represents a core concept of border theory, the consequences of nonwork permeations of the work border in the social context of smartphone use have remained somewhat unclear (Capitano et al, 2019). Thus, by integrating tenets of communication research, this study acknowledges the social nature of smartphone use for personal communication in fostering nonwork permeations of the work border that allow for social benefits and social costs of communication.…”

“…Besides dissolving physical and temporal markers, in the context of personal smartphone use at work, the psychological dimension of nonwork permeations is argued to play a crucial role. The psychological dimension refers to positive and negative emotions and attitudes about or from the nonwork domain entering the work domain (Capitano, McAlpine, & Greenhaus, 2019).…”