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Boundary management; Job embeddedness; Relationship tension; Work-family conflict; Work-family enrichment
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Do The Benefits Of Family-To-Work Transitions Come At Too Great A Cost?, Dawn Carlson, K. Michele Kacmar, Suzanne Zivnuska, Meredith Ferguson
Do The Benefits Of Family-To-Work Transitions Come At Too Great A Cost?, Dawn Carlson, K. Michele Kacmar, Suzanne Zivnuska, Meredith Ferguson
Management Faculty Publications
This research examines the impact of role boundary management on the work-family interface, as well as on organizational (job embeddedness) and family (relationship tension) outcomes. First, we integrate conservation of resources theory with crossover theory, to build a theoretical model of work-family boundary management. Second, we extend prior work by exploring positive and negative paths through which boundary management affects work and family outcomes. Third, we incorporate spouse perceptions to create a dynamic, systems-perspective explanation of the work-family interface. Using a matched sample of 639 job incumbents and their spouses, we found that family-to-work boundary transitions was related to the …