Work-life balance – a neglected issue among Austrian female expatriates

Fischlmayr, Iris C.; Kollinger, Iris

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“…It has become clear that the family setting has a tremendous impact on the subjective well-being and therefore on WLB (as also raised by Welch & Worm, 2006;Fischlmayr & Kollinger, 2010). If international business travelers are single or live in a single-career partnership they seem to quite easily keep their WLB since there are not too many additional obligations such as childcare or household duties.…”

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“…Together they employed 24.500 international assignees in the year 2000. Beutell, 1985), this does not apply to the international level in the same way (Fischlmayr & Kollinger, 2010). Both, practitioners and researchers consider work-life and work-family balance issues mostly as a domestic matter, which seem to be developed and implemented from a domestic point of view (Harzing & Ruysseveldt, 2004). 3.…”

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Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Kollinger-Santer¹,

Fischlmayr²

2013

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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Work life balance up in the air-Does gender make a difference between female and male international business travelers? ** Managing work-life balance (WLB) has become an issue for both employees and HR departments since WLB tensions may reduce performance, overall job satisfaction and finally, increase the fluctuation rate. Having a balance between job and non-work is a particular challenge for international business travelers, but research on this topic is still in its very infancy. The aim of this article and its underlying qualitative study was to discover factors that influence WLB of those employees, and to explore potential differences among male and female. The results clearly show a big difference in the perception of factors influencing WLB depending on the family situation. This highlights the need of HR departments to offer individually tailored support for the different groups of international business travelers. Work Life Balance als Vielflieger-Gibt es Geschlechtsunterschiede zwischen weiblichen und männlichen internationalen Geschäftsreisenden? Das Managen der Work-Life Balance (WLB) ist für immer mehr Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer als auch Personalabteilungen ein Thema geworden, da ein Ungleichgewicht zwischen Arbeit und "Nicht-Arbeit" nicht nur Leistung sowie die allgemeine Jobzufriedenheit reduzieren, sondern letztendlich auch zu höheren Fluktuationsraten führen kann. Diese Balance zu halten, ist besonders für internationale Geschäftsreisende eine Herausforderung. Dennoch befindet sich die Forschung zu diesem Thema noch stark in den Kinderschuhen. Ziel dieses Artikels und der zugrundeliegenden qualitativen Studie ist es, die WLB dieser Gruppe von Arbeitnehmern sowie potenzielle Unterschiede zwischen weiblichen und männlichen Vielfliegern zu erörtern. Die Resultate zeigen, dass die Einflussfaktoren auf die WLB in Abhängigkeit von der Familiensituation unterschiedlich wahrgenommen werden. Diese Ergebnisse betonen den Bedarf nach Unterstützungsmaßnahmen seitens der Personalabteilungen, welche für die einzelnen Gruppen von internationalen Geschäftsreisenden maßgeschneidert sind.

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Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Kollinger-Santer¹,

Fischlmayr²

2013

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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“…A recent relocation trends survey Other studies (Fischlmayr & Kollinger, 2010; Makela et al, 2011) suggest that while on assignment women may experience different or additional challenges to their male colleagues in respect to caring responsibilities and lack of extended family support, and dual career conflict issues. An ongoing debate concerning male and female differences in overseas assignments is of relevance to our research.…”

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Female Military Expats: Sixty Years of Work in International War Zones

Fisher

Hutchings

Pinto

2014

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This exploratory study focuses on the acculturation strategies of female career military 'propatriates' who worked and lived in combat settings. Based on an analysis of the oral histories of women who served in the Second World War, Korean War, Vietnam War, Afghanistan and Iraq, the research revealed that a strong commitment to their profession and camaraderie facilitated their adaptation to living conditions characterized by extreme danger, nominal domestic comforts, a hyper-masculine culture, and unrelenting work requirements in culturally distant contexts. The research highlighted the multiple physical and psychological stressors of living and working in a war zone and variety of coping strategies employed, particularly the prominent role of communication with family and friends, friendships with other military expatriates, and religion. As extant expatriate research has overwhelmingly focused on male executives in multinational corporations, this research is significant in extending the literature to an analysis of women in the military who lived and worked in extreme intercultural contexts at times throughout the twentieth century when not only were propatriates a relatively rare phenomenon but few women worked internationally. INTRODUCTIONDespite a long tradition of sending public sector personnel overseas for a variety of purposes, such as diplomatic and military service (Stening 1994), the literature on expatriate management has been dominated by discussions of people working in private industry (Bhaskar-Shrinivas, Fenner & Selmer, 2008) with research on public sector expatriates and Submission #12954 2 their conditions of work being very limited (Anderson 2001;Fenner & Selmer, 2008). This paper analyses the oral histories of United States (US) female military expatriates deployed to war zones encompassing a sixty-year span of the twentieth and early parts of the twenty-first century across World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and the Gulf Wars of Afghanistan and Iraq. The analysis extends expatriation focused on multinational enterprises and traditional expatriates (see, for instance, Altman & Shortland, 2008;Furuya et al., 2009;Lazarova & Tarique, 2005) by examining female military propatriate acculturation in an extreme context (i.e., a war zone). In analyzing their acculturation and identifying the coping strategies that were employed under these challenging, adverse conditions, this research contributes to expatriation research generally and female expatriation more specifically but also provides insights for organizations operating in extreme contexts and international businesses which are increasingly affected by international terrorism (Bader & Berg, 2013).Achieving acculturation in a culturally distant and extreme context is important for civilian leaders, government and military -and it is an increasingly important area of research for fields such as aerospace, the military, medicine, and transportation, among others, where hazardous work settings are encountered. An extreme context ...

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“…Satisficing can be effective in certain professions (for example, medicine) but is less so in industry at managerial levels where there is less opportunity to vary working hours and/or patterns to play an active part in raising children Harris, 1998b, 1999). Hence, it might be expected that expatriate roles with their long hours and requirements for international travel (Fischlmayr and Kollinger, 2010;Pascoe, 2005) -and international assignments in oil and gas exploration and production in particular given their remote locations and patterns of work -present few opportunities for satisficing.…”

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The ‘expat factor’: the influence of working time on women's decisions to undertake international assignments in the oil and gas industry

Shortland

2014

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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Acknowledgments:The author wishes to thank the three anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful input and assistance in refining this paper, and Laura Baker for her help in preparing the model. 2The 'expat factor': The influence of working time on women's decisions to undertake international assignments in the oil and gas industry AbstractThis article examines the effect of working time on women's willingness to go on expatriate assignments in the oil and gas exploration and production sector. The research draws upon an analysis of two case study firms' international assignment and working time policies, semi-

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Work-life balance – a neglected issue among Austrian female expatriates

Cited by 96 publications

References 75 publications

Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Work Life Balance up in the Air – Does Gender Make a Difference between Female and Male International Business Travelers?

Female Military Expats: Sixty Years of Work in International War Zones

The ‘expat factor’: the influence of working time on women's decisions to undertake international assignments in the oil and gas industry

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