Work–life balance in Asia: A systematic review

Le, Huong; Newman, Alexander; Menzies, Jane; Zheng, Connie; Fermelis, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.hrmr.2020.100766

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“…It is therefore important to differentiate between the forms of flexible work arrangements (Chandola, Booker, Kumari, & Benzeval, 2019). Across collectivistic societies families tend to be larger, it's common to host and accept unannounced visits from extended family members and friends compared to individualistic cultures (Le, Newman, Menzies, Zheng, & Fermelis, 2020). As children and grandparents share the same household it becomes a busy place and may not be the best physical environment for working (Golden, Sweet, & Chung, 2018).…”

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“…For example, we have witnessed the transformation of China into a capitalist market economy and the liberalization of the Indian economy. Such developments have resulted in a much higher demand for jobs in Asia (Chandra, 2012), a blurring of boundaries between work and home, and a greater emphasis on work-life problems than in the past as its studied that Asians work more hours, being socially acceptable by them than their counterparts in the west (Le, Newman, Menzies, Zheng, & Fermelis, 2020). Individuals from more polychronic societies tend to do many tasks at once and do not use conventional planning.…”

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How Flexible Work Arrangements Affects Affective Organizational Commitment, and Work-Life Enrichment in Pakistan’s Service Industry: The Role of Time Planning, Work-Life Conflict, and Engagement

Gill

Siddiqui

2020

HRR

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Work-life balance is now being encouraged in organizations across different cultures. Moreover, amidst the current ‘pandemic’ status of widespread disease COVID-19, its essential for businesses to operate remotely as FWAs response to these challenges. The purpose is to focus on explaining how FWAs induce affective commitment as well as help in achieving work-life enrichment. For this, we proposed a theoretical framework hypothesizing that FWAs reduce work-life conflicts as well as make employees more engaged. The effect of FWAs on these two is also complemented by better time planning. Reduction of conflicts and enhanced engagement would, in turn, increase affective organizational commitment and work-life enrichment. Empirical significance was calculated by performing a survey using a questionnaire to collect data from 300 service sector employees in Pakistan. We determined our results by using structural equation modeling. The results suggested that FWAs are significantly and positively related to affective organizational commitment, engagement, and work-life enrichment, whereas negatively and significantly affect work-life conflict. Moreover, engagement also positively affects enrichment and affective commitment. Surprisingly, work-life conflict seems to positively affect work-life enrichment. Time planning seems to negatively complement the effect of FWAs on work-life conflict whereas, positively affect engagement. This study concludes that positive outcomes are generated by simply providing FWAs and more friendly policies whereby increasing effectiveness and ensuring business success continuity.

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How Flexible Work Arrangements Affects Affective Organizational Commitment, and Work-Life Enrichment in Pakistan’s Service Industry: The Role of Time Planning, Work-Life Conflict, and Engagement

Gill

Siddiqui

2020

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“…Whilst academics are widely acknowledged as an important asset to HEIs, and despite high job autonomy being a substance of the academic profession (Badri, 2019), health and wellbeing issues keep emerging (Clarke et al, 2015). A recent review by Le et al (2020) focusing on work-life balance challenge in Asia region has emphasised that the spike in demands and high workload in academia-industry have resulted in academics to struggle juggling their work and life commitments. According to Le et al (2020), economic transformation and commercialisation of HEIs have led to a massive reformation in the higher education system changing the landscape to be even more stressful than before.…”

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“…A recent review by Le et al (2020) focusing on work-life balance challenge in Asia region has emphasised that the spike in demands and high workload in academia-industry have resulted in academics to struggle juggling their work and life commitments. According to Le et al (2020), economic transformation and commercialisation of HEIs have led to a massive reformation in the higher education system changing the landscape to be even more stressful than before. Issues such as a greater requirement for research output and student's enrolment on top of high teaching and administrative workload has developed barriers for academics to maintain their work-life balance.…”

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“…Despite academics' privilege to practice self-governing to enhance their engagement and retention at work (Richman et al, 2008), higher intention to quit still being discovered (Clarke et al, 2015;Panatik et al, 2012). More importantly, the changing landscape and evolving HEI environment warrant for newer investigation on academics' work-life balance (i.e., Le et al, 2020) and how the practice of work autonomy may affect their work and life conditions.…”

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The Roles of Job Autonomy and Self-Efficacy to Improve Academics’ Work-life Balance

Badri

Panatik

2020

AAMJ

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Discussion on workers’ work-life balance has been ongoing since the 1980s. However, less is known about work-life balance amongst university academics especially on the role of job autonomy and self-efficacy in influencing it. The current paper investigates the influence of job autonomy towards academics’ work-life balance. Also, it examines the role of self-efficacy as a moderator in between this relationship. This study employed a quantitative method using the cross-sectional design using data on 307 responses to test these propositions. Using AMOS 23 and SPSS23, we established evidences on the positive influence of job autonomy towards academics’ work-life balance. That is, high job autonomy linked to higher work-to-family enrichment and lesser work-to-family conflict occurrences. Besides, work-to-family enrichment was found higher when self-efficacy level was high, confirming the moderating role of self-efficacy. This study contributes to a greater understanding on the influence of both job autonomy and self-efficacy towards academics’ work-life balance in terms of enrichment and conflict occurrences. It also affirms the constructive effects of self-efficacy to enhance the relationship between job autonomy and work-to-family enrichment. Findings from this study may be used to assist various human resource practitioners, researchers, and higher education institutions to build relevant policies to further support sustainable work-life balance practices within educational institutions.

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The multifaceted challenges of teaching from home: A study of schoolteachers' well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Bhattacharya

Tandon

2023

Psychology in the Schools

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This study examined perceived needs, well‐being, work/nonwork conflict and demands, and coping mechanisms among government and private schoolteachers in India while working from home during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We employed a mixed method design, collecting 161 quantitative responses using questionnaires and 121 qualitative responses using open‐ended questions. These were analyzed using inferential statistics and thematic analysis, respectively. Results highlight the negative impact of work/nonwork conflict on well‐being. The missing work‐home boundaries resulted in extended work hours, unorganized routines, and simultaneous work/nonwork demands. We describe the multifaceted nature of operational, pedagogical, and technological challenges faced by schoolteachers. We suggest psychological and operational resources and support mechanisms that can be developed at the family, school administration, and policy levels. Further, customized bundles of solutions are needed to address the variability in the challenges faced.

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Work–life balance in Asia: A systematic review

Cited by 89 publications

References 127 publications

How Flexible Work Arrangements Affects Affective Organizational Commitment, and Work-Life Enrichment in Pakistan’s Service Industry: The Role of Time Planning, Work-Life Conflict, and Engagement

How Flexible Work Arrangements Affects Affective Organizational Commitment, and Work-Life Enrichment in Pakistan’s Service Industry: The Role of Time Planning, Work-Life Conflict, and Engagement

The Roles of Job Autonomy and Self-Efficacy to Improve Academics’ Work-life Balance

The multifaceted challenges of teaching from home: A study of schoolteachers' well‐being during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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