... be exercised at home. Practical suggestions to help employees identify strategies to lower conflict and raise facilitation, thus promoting balance, are discussed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Family Conflict management Facilitation Sociology of work Behaviour Work‐family balance...

...‐level perspectives to scope out and explain the links between work and family life. Noreen Heraty can be contacted at: noreen.hearty@ul.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Conflict management Family Sociology of work Cultural studies Interest in the work‐family interface...

...). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Expatriates Family Cross‐cultural studies Sociology of work Expatriates have to adjust to each of the domains separately. Of course the domains are not isolated or independent from each other. Therefore, spillover takes place from one...

... be compounded in employees who: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Sociology of work Role conflict Stress Personal health Employees Several models of occupational stress have been formulated in an attempt to explain relationships between features of the working environment...

... Sociology of work Family Individual psychology The growing interest in work‐life balance may originate from changes in many global and local domains. For example, the traditional family consisting of the husband going out to work and the wife staying at home to look after the children is now less...

... of Labor Statistics, 2003). Accordingly, research has increasingly examined how workers experience and manage conflict between their work and family roles (Eby et al., 2005). Sociology of work Family Role conflict Attitudes © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 H2...

.... Noreen Heraty can be contacted at: noreen.heraty.ul.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Family Sociology of work This special issue brings together six papers that further our understanding of the challenges and complexities underscoring the work‐family interface, an interface...

... group, which is important for many businesses, is generated and possible generalizations are discussed. Wolfgang Mayrhofer can be contacted at: wolfgang.mayrhofer@wu‐wien.ac.at © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Sociology of work Family Careers Gender Work‐family...

..., perceived level of demand should also increase. Family Sociology of work Role conflict Work and family are the key domains of life to many people (Whitely and England, 1977), and, not surprisingly, work‐family conflict (WFC) research has become a major area in organizational research...