Working time in the employment relationship: Working time, perceived control and work-life balance

Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 188-211

  Golden, Lonnie ^a   Wiens Tuers, Barbara ^a   Lambert, Susan J ^b   Henly, Julia R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861966078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

References (76)

1. Allan, C., R. Loudoun and D. Peetz (2007), 'Influences on work/non-work conflict', Journal of Sociology, 43(3), 219-39.
2. Barnett, Rosalind C. (2004), 'Work hours as a predictor of stress outcomes', Brandeis University, Community, Families & Work Program, Women's Studies Research Center, available at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/workschedules/abstracts/barnett.html.
3. Barnett, R., K. Gareis and R. Brennan (1999), 'Fit as a mediator of the relationship between work hours and burnout', Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 4, 307-17.
4. Beckers, Debby G.J., Dimitri van der Linden, Peter G.W. Smulders, Michiel A.J. Kompier et al. (2004), 'Working overtime hours: relations with fatigue, work motivation, and the quality of work', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 46(12), 1282-9.
5. Beckers, Debby G.J., Dimitri van der Linden, Peter G.W. Smulders, Michiel A.J. Kompier, Toon W. Taris and Sabine A.E. Geurts (2008), 'Voluntary or involuntary? Control over overtime and rewards for overtime in relation to fatigue and work satisfaction', Work & Stress, 22(1), 33-50.
6. Berg, P. (2008), 'Working time flexibility in the German employment relations system: implications for Germany and lessons for the United States', Industrielle Beziehungen, 15(2), 133-50.
7. Berg, Peter, Arne Kalleberg and Eileen Appelbaum (2003), 'Balancing work and family: the role of high-commitment environments', Industrial Relations, 42(2) (April), 168-88.
8. Berg, Peter, Eileen Appelbaum, Tom Bailey and Arne Kalleberg (2004), 'Contesting time: international comparisons of employee control of working time', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 5, 3 April, 331-49.
9. Bernstein, Jared and Karen Kornbluh (2005), 'Running faster to stay in place: the growth of family work hours and incomes', New America Foundation, Work and Family Program, June.
10. Blair-Loy, M. (2009), 'Work without end? Scheduling flexibility and work-to-family conflict among stockbrokers', Work and Occupations, 36, 279-317.
11. Bliese, P. and R. Halverson (1996), 'Individual and nomothetic models of job stress: an examination of work hours, cohesion and well-being', Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 26(13), 1171-89.
12. Bretherton, Tanya (2008), 'Work and family policy: spoilt for choice or spoilt by choice?, Journal of Management & Organization, 14, 259-66.
13. Brown, Kerry A., Sharine Ling, Lisa M. Bradley, Helen Lingard and Keith J. Townsend (2009), 'What about me? Avoiding fatigue and gaining personal time in the work to leisure transition in work-life balance initiatives', paper presented at 23rd Annual Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM 2009), 1-4 December, Southbank, Melbourne.
14. Budd, J. and K. Mumford (2006), 'Family-friendly work practices in Britain: availability and perceived accessibility', Human Resource Management, 24, 23-42.
15. Butler, Adam, Joseph G. Grzywacz, Brenda L. Bass and Kirsten D. Linney (2005), 'Extending the demands-control model: a daily diary study of job characteristics, work-family conflict and work-family facilitation', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 78, 155-69.
16. Byron, Kristin (2005), 'A meta-analytic review of work-family conflict and its antecedents', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 67, 169-98.
17. Cameron, Allan, Rebecca Loudoun and David Peetz (2007), 'Influences on work/non-work conflict', Journal of Sociology, 43(3), 219-39.
18. Carlson, Dawn S., Joseph G. Grzywacz and K. Michele Kacmar (2010), 'The relationship of schedule flexibility and outcomes via the work-family interface', Journal of Managerial Psychology, 25(4), 330-55.
19. Caruso, C.C. (2006), 'Possible broad impacts of long work hours', Industrial Health, 44(4), 531-6.
20. Clarkberg, Marin and Phyllis Moen (2001), 'Understanding the time-squeeze: married couples' preferred and actual work-hour strategies', American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7), 1115-36.
21. Cornell University Institute for Workplace Studies (1999), 'Overtime and the American worker', New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
22. Costa, Giovanni, Samantha Sartori and Torbjorn Angstkerstedt (2006), 'Influence of flexibility and variability of working hours on health and well-being', Chronobiology International, 23(6), October, 1125-37.
23. Dembe, A.E., R. Delbos and J.B. Erickson (2008), 'The effect of occupation and industry on the injury risks from demanding work schedules', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 50(10), 1185-94.
24. Drago, Robert and Lonnie Golden (2005), 'The role of economics in work-family research', in E. Kossek and M. Pitt-Catsouphes (eds), The Handbook of Work and Family Research, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, December.
25. Drago, Robert, David Black and Mark Wooden (2004), 'Gender and work hours transitions in Australia: drop ceilings and trap-door floors', IZA Discussion Paper No. 1210, July.
26. Fenwick, R. and M. Tausig (2001), 'Scheduling stress: family and health outcomes of shift work and schedule control', American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7), March, 1179-98.
27. Friedman, Will and Jill Casner-Lotto (2003), 'Time is of the essence: new scheduling options for unionized employees', New York: Work in America Institute and Labor Project for Working Families.
28. Galinsky, E. and J.T. Bond (2001), Feeling Overworked, New York: Families and Work Institute.
29. Galinsky, E., J.T. Bond, S. Kim, L. Backon, E. Brownfield and K. Sakai (2005), 'Overwork in America: when the way we work becomes too much', New York: Families and Work Institute.
30. Ganster, D. and C. Bates (2003), 'Do long work hours decrease general wellbeing and increase work-family conflict?', paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle.
31. Gerstel, Naomi and Dan Clawson (2001), 'Unions' responses to family concerns', Social Problems, 48(2), 277-98.
32. Golden, Lonnie (2009), 'Not formally introduced? Formal vs. informal flexible daily work schedules among US workers', Industrial Relations, 48(1), January, 27-54.
33. Golden, Lonnie and Barbara Wiens-Tuers (2005), 'Mandatory overtime work in the United States: who, where, and what?', Labor Studies Journal, 30(1), Spring, 1-26.
34. Golden, Lonnie and Barbara Wiens-Tuers (2008), 'Overtime work and worker well-being at home', Review of Social Economy, 66(1), March, 24-49.
35. Grandey, Alicia A., Bryanne L. Cordeiro and Judd H. Michael (2007), 'Work-family supportiveness organizational perceptions: important for the well-being of male blue-collar hourly workers?', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71, 460-78.
36. Gray, Matthew, Lixia Qu, David Stanton and Ruth Weston (2004), 'Long work hours and the wellbeing of fathers and their families', Australian Journal of Labor Economics, 7(2), 255-73.
37. Green, Francis (2004), 'Work intensification, discretion and the decline in well-being at work', Eastern Economic Journal, 30(4), 615-25.
38. Gregory, Abigail and Susan Milner (2009), 'Trade unions and work-life balance: changing times in France and the UK?', British Journal of Industrial Relations, 47(1), March, 122-46.
39. Grosch, James, Claire Caruso, Roger Rosa and Steven Sauter (2006), 'Long hours of work in the United States: associations with demographic and organizational characteristics, psychosocial working conditions and health', American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 49, 921-29.
40. Hamermesh, Daniel (1999), 'The timing of work over time', The Economic Journal, 109(452), January, 37-66.
41. Hamermesh, Daniel and Jungmin Lee (2007), 'Stressed out on four continents: time crunch or yuppie kvetch?, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.
42. Havlovic, Stephen, Dora Lau and Lawrence Pinfield (2002), 'Repercussions of work schedule congruence among full-time, part-time, and contingent nurses', Health Care Management Review, 27(4), 30-41.
43. Hayman, Jeremy R. (2009), 'Flexible work arrangements: exploring the linkages between perceived usability of flexible work schedules and work/life balance', Community, Work & Family, 12(3), August, 327-38.
44. Helliwell, J. and H. Huang (2010) 'How's the job? Well-being and social capital in the workplace', Industrial & Labor Relations Review, 63(2), January, 205-27.
45. Henly, J.R., H.L. Shaefer and R.E. Waxman (2006), 'Non-standard work schedules: employer-and employee-driven flexibility in retail jobs', Social Service Review, 80, 609-34.
46. Hill, E.J., A. Hawkins, M. Ferris and M. Weitzman (2001), 'Finding an extra day a week: positive influence of perceived job flexibility on work and family balance', Family Relations, 50(1), 49-58.
47. Hughes, Emily Katharine and R. Parkes (2007), 'Work hours and well-being: the roles of work-time control and work-family interference', Work & Stress, 21(3), July, 264-78.
48. Jansen, Nicole, Ijmert Kant, Tage Kristensen and Frans Nijhuis (2003), 'Antecedents and consequences of work-family conflict: a prospective cohort study', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 45(5), 479-91.
49. Karasek, Robert A. Jr (1979), 'Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: implications for job redesign', Administrative Science Quarterly, 24(2), 285-308.
50. Keene, Jennifer R. and Jill Quadagno (2004), 'Predictors of perceived work-family balance: gender difference or gender similarity?', Sociological Perspectives, 47(1 series), Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press.
51. Kelliher, Clare and Deirdre Anderson (2010), 'Doing more with less? Flexible working practices and the intensification of work', Human Relations, 63(1), January, 1-24.
52. Kelly, Erin L. and Alexandra Kalev (2006), 'Managing flexible work arrangements in US organizations: formalized discretion or "a right to ask"', Socio-Economic Review, 4(3), September, 379-416.
53. Kossek, E., B. Lautsch and S. Eaton (2005), 'Flexibility enactment theory: implications of flexibility type, boundary management and control for work-family effectiveness', in E. Kossek and S.J. Lambert (eds), Work and Life Integration: Organizational, Cultural and Individual Perspective, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
54. Krausz, M., A. Sagie and Y. Bidermann (2000), 'Actual and preferred work schedules and scheduling control as determinants of job-related attitudes', Journal of Vocational Behavior, 56, 1-11.
55. Lambert, Susan J. (2008), 'Passing the buck: labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers', Human Relations, 61(9), 1203-27.
56. Lautsch, Brenda and Maureen Scully (2007), 'Restructuring time: implications of workhours reductions for the working class', Human Relations, 60(5), 719-43.
57. MacDermid, S.M. and C. Tang (2009), 'Flexibility and control: does one necessarily bring the other?', in D.R. Crane and E.J. Hill (eds), Handbook of Families and Work, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
58. Major, V.S., K. Klein and M. Ehrhart (2002), 'Work time, work interference with family and psychological distress', Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 427-36.
59. Martens, M., F. Nijhuis, M. Van Boxtel and J. Knottnerus (1999), 'Flexible work schedules and mental and physical health: a study of a working population with non-traditional working hours', Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20(1), 35-46.
60. Maume, D.J. and M.L. Bellas (2001), 'The overworked American or the time bind: assessing competing explanations for time spent in paid labor', American Behavioral Scientist, 44(7), March, 1137-56.
61. Ortega, Jaime (2009), 'Why do employers give discretion? Family versus performance concerns', Industrial Relations, 48(1), January, 1-26.
62. Osterman, P. (2000), 'Work organization in an age of restructuring: trends in diffusion and effects on employee welfare', Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 53, 179-96.
63. Poissonnet, Claude Michèle and Monique Véron (2000), 'Health effects of work schedules in healthcare professions', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 9(1), 13-23.
64. Reynolds, J. (2003), 'You can't always get the hours you want: mismatches between actual and preferred work hours in the United States', Social Forces, 81(4), 1171-99.
65. Reynolds, J. (2005), 'In the face of conflict: work-family conflict and desired work hour adjustments', Journal of Marriage and Family, 67, 1313-31.
66. Rubery, Jill, Kevin Ward, Damian Grimshaw and Huw Beynon (2005), 'Working time, industrial relations and the employment relationship', Time & Society, 14, 89-111.
67. Schieman, Scott and Marisa Young (2010), 'When work interferes with life: work-nonwork interference and the influence of work-related demands and resources', Social Science Research, 39(2), March, 246-59.
68. Schieman, Scott, Paul Glavin and Melissa A. Milkie (2009), 'When work interferes with life: work-nonwork interference and the influence of work-related demands and resources', American Sociological Review, 74(6), 966-88.
69. Sparks, Kate, Brian Faragher and Cary L. Cooper (2001), 'Well-being and occupational health in the 21st century workplace', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 74, 489-509.
70. Spurgeon, Anne (2003), Working Time: its Impact on Safety and Health, Geneva: International Labour Organization.
71. Strazdins, Lyndall, Mark S. Clements, Rosemary J. Korda, Dorothy H. Broom and Rennie M. D'Souza (2006), 'Unsociable work? Nonstandard work schedules', Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, May, 394-410.
72. Tausig, Mark and Rudy Fenwick (2001), 'Unbinding time: alternate work schedules and work-life balance', Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 22(2), 101-19.
73. Thornthwaite, Louise (2004), 'Working time and work-family balance: a review of employees' preferences', Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 42(2), 166-84.
74. White, Michael, Stephen Hill, Patrick McGovern, Colin Mills and Deborah Smeaton (2003), '"High-performance" management practices, working hours and work-life balance', British Journal of Industrial Relations, 41(2), June, 175-95.
75. Wilson, Mark G, David M. DeJoy, Robert J. Vandenberg and Hettie A. Richardson (2004), 'Work characteristics and employee health and well-being', Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 77, December, 565-88.
76. Zeytinoglu, Isik U., Gordon B. Cooke and Sara L. Mann (2009), 'Flexibility: whose choice is it anyway?', Relations Industrielles, 64(4), Fall, 555-75.