Open AccessInnovative Ideas on How Work–Family Research Can Have More Impact
Author(s) -
KOSSEK ELLEN ERNST,
BALTES BORIS B.,
MATTHEWS RUSSELL A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
industrial and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1754-9434
pISSN - 1754-9426
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-9434.2011.01367.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , psychology , engineering ethics , sociology , engineering , mechanical engineering
The commentaries on our focal article agreed with its main premise that work–family research should follow new strategies to improve its practical impact, and made suggestions clustering into three main themes. The first theme built on our suggestion to improve the research focus, terminology, and framing of work‐family research. These essays offered additional ideas such as decoupling work‐family from work‐life research, and examining contextual factors more deeply. The second theme focused on how to better apply the findings from work family research. These commentaries provided social change approaches for making work‐family issues more central to key stakeholders and to organizations. The third theme focused on broadening our scope to the societal level. These editorials advocated tactics supporting the development of basic rights of work–life balance within and across nations.