Abstract
This chapter explains public discourse about the challenges and the importance of integrating work and family life and how these have expanded and attained a degree of visibility that is hard to ignore. The work–family or work–life interface itself reflects the variety of experiences, constraints, supports, and opportunities that individuals and groups experience in the unique cultures that make up their workplace and their specific role in it. Understanding and supporting a healthy integration of work and life within the wide range of public, private, and non-profit organizations now require a complex understanding of individual, group, and organizational forces. It describes the work–family interface; it is necessary to understand why problems with integrating the work and family domains of life arise and what consequences result from a lack of work–family integration. It looks at the outcomes associated with the work–family interface in the work domain, the family domain, and the health and well-being domain. Then they differentiate between the various constructs that are used in the work–family literature to characterize the positive side of the work–family interface. It begins by examining outcomes pertaining to work–family conflict and reviews the research that has been done on job attitudes, career outcomes, performance-related outcomes, and withdrawal intentions and behaviors.
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