Abstract
The present study replicates St-Vincent and al. in 2011 experience sampling study of the work activity regulation model and addresses health crisis issue, which replicates the original study’s findings. Results suggest that social times is regulated within each Tunisian manager. Individuals’ or collective optimal social regulation state changed from public and organizational policies, but results did not support the original study’s claim regarding social satiation. Similarly, the study showed a significant number of events involved a risk to their occupational health and safety. However, the thematic analysis reveals disparities in the distribution of risk events for the manager as well as the type of risks to which he is exposed during the COVID-19 period. So, there are a significant number of managers who were confronted with a risk to their health more than times when unforeseen events occur. These events experienced by Tunisian managers during the COVID-19 period can be stressful. In fact, in order to withstand the stress inherent in each of the life spheres, some people want to maintain a permeable border between work and non-work to avoid overflows from one to the other.
Highlights
The social times articulation, by its complexity, has different facets and contradictions
Analysis of all of our interviews indicates that regulation between spheres of life during the COVID-19 period can be accomplished through a combination of several factors
Our interviews reveal that the enrichment felt by one of the spheres could play the role of regulator to protect individuals from the negative consequences of work-outside work interference during the period of COVID-19: it is a source of regulation between spheres of life
Summary
The social times articulation, by its complexity, has different facets and contradictions This articulation gives rise to regulatory behaviors in the actors that make it possible to reduce these overlaps and overcome these interferences. These modes of regulation or adaptation may relate to public and organizational policies aimed at reducing the frictions resulting from interference between spheres of life. Analysis of all of our interviews indicates that regulation between spheres of life during the COVID-19 period can be accomplished through a combination of several factors Such as the enrichment felt and a positive relationship to the profession, family and / or organizational support. We have shown that the theory of role conflicts (Greenhaus & Beutell, 1985), the theory of enrichment (Greenhaus & Powell, 2006), the theory of borders (Campbell-Clark, 2000) and those of systems (Curie & Hajjar, 1987) are not contradictory but can coexist and complement each other to better express the experiences and perceptions of managers of the different interactions between work and non-work
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