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Impact of Work-Life Balance on Firm Innovativeness: The Different Strategies Used by Male and Female Bosses

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    Identifier: imarina:9281101
    Authors:
    Shouman, LinaVidal-Sune, AntoniAlarcon, Amado Alarcon
    Abstract:
    The idea of work–family balance has generated considerable interest for researchers who tried to focus mainly on the increased female engagement in the labor market, the rise in dual-income households, as well as the changing nature of organizations, work and the workplace. While some individuals prefer work-life balance (WLB) strategies that set fair and realistic limits between their professional and personal lives, others prefer initiatives that provide harmony between the different aspects of their lives. By surveying both Lebanese male and female employees, this research explored work-life strategies that can be implemented by men and women leaders to balance their work and non-work activities and promote their roles as leaders. In addition, it aims to explore if those work-life strategies enhance organizational performance by means of increased innovativeness, and research and development. The results reveal that there is no significant relationship between employee WLB and organizational performance, indicating that satisfied employees do not necessarily deliver increased or weakened performance. Our results also reveal that supervisor support is positively related to employee WLB. In addition, the study examines the effects of individual coping WLB strategies and organizational provision of WLB policies on employee affective well-being. The results indicate that Lebanese individuals who have positive attitudes and life coping strategies are more capable of achieving overall well-being.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Shouman, Lina; Vidal-Sune, Antoni; Alarcon, Amado Alarcon
    Department: Gestió d'Empreses
    URV's Author/s: Alarcón Alarcón, Amado / Vidal Suñé, Antoni
    Keywords: Work-life balance (wlb) Wlb policies Supervisor support Research-and-development Organizational performance Men and women leaders work/life balance wlb policies supervisor support pls-sem organizational performance men and women leaders mediating role job human-resource gender family conflict
    Abstract: The idea of work–family balance has generated considerable interest for researchers who tried to focus mainly on the increased female engagement in the labor market, the rise in dual-income households, as well as the changing nature of organizations, work and the workplace. While some individuals prefer work-life balance (WLB) strategies that set fair and realistic limits between their professional and personal lives, others prefer initiatives that provide harmony between the different aspects of their lives. By surveying both Lebanese male and female employees, this research explored work-life strategies that can be implemented by men and women leaders to balance their work and non-work activities and promote their roles as leaders. In addition, it aims to explore if those work-life strategies enhance organizational performance by means of increased innovativeness, and research and development. The results reveal that there is no significant relationship between employee WLB and organizational performance, indicating that satisfied employees do not necessarily deliver increased or weakened performance. Our results also reveal that supervisor support is positively related to employee WLB. In addition, the study examines the effects of individual coping WLB strategies and organizational provision of WLB policies on employee affective well-being. The results indicate that Lebanese individuals who have positive attitudes and life coping strategies are more capable of achieving overall well-being.
    Thematic Areas: Management Ciencias sociales Business, management and accounting (miscellaneous) Business, management and accounting (all)
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: antoni.vidal@urv.cat antoni.vidal@urv.cat amado.alarcon@urv.cat
    Author identifier: 0000-0003-0170-060X 0000-0003-0170-060X 0000-0003-4640-2681
    Record's date: 2024-09-07
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: Administrative Sciences. 12(3) (115): 1-25
    APA: Shouman, Lina; Vidal-Sune, Antoni; Alarcon, Amado Alarcon (2022). Impact of Work-Life Balance on Firm Innovativeness: The Different Strategies Used by Male and Female Bosses. Administrative Sciences, 12(3)(115), 1-25. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12030115
    Article's DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12030115
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2022
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Business, Management and Accounting (Miscellaneous),Management
    Work-life balance (wlb)
    Wlb policies
    Supervisor support
    Research-and-development
    Organizational performance
    Men and women leaders
    work/life balance
    wlb policies
    supervisor support
    pls-sem
    organizational performance
    men and women leaders
    mediating role
    job
    human-resource
    gender
    family conflict
    Management
    Ciencias sociales
    Business, management and accounting (miscellaneous)
    Business, management and accounting (all)
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