Mrs Fatima Malik F.Malik7@salford.ac.uk
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UK Employed Women’s Experiences of Role-control Nuances (Decision Choice; Emotive Willingness) and Emotional-Experience Around Conflicting Work & Life
Malik, Fatima
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Abstract
Using role adjustment/boundary management theory, this paper uncovers the nuances of role-control as underexamined phenomena and the emotional consequences, around working women’s conflicts between work and life. Thirty-four semi-structured interviews around 210 captured photographs, enabled active, participant-led, and collaborative data collection leading to in-depth, detailed, and rich insights of women’s experiences. Findings revealed that woman applied various types of role-control negotiations (role-integration; segregation), through different individualised/organisational means. Individualised role-control enabled protection of work through temporal (creating space at different daily-times) and contingent (resource-access) solutions, with negative emotional consequences. Alternatively, role-control accessed through HR organizational policies, underpinned decision-choice and psychological factors (e.g., [un]willingness) based on women’s flexibility in separating from work, for family and personal-time, with also positive emotional consequences. The paper serves an awareness-raising purpose for HR/workplaces, of the not-so-obvious work-life conflict pressures facing women and the need for greater organisational-wide transparency/management awareness of women’s nonwork role-conflict consequences and requirements.
Citation
Malik, F. (2024). UK Employed Women’s Experiences of Role-control Nuances (Decision Choice; Emotive Willingness) and Emotional-Experience Around Conflicting Work & Life. SAGE Open, 14(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241275045
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jul 31, 2024 |
Online Publication Date | Aug 30, 2024 |
Publication Date | Aug 30, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Sep 3, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 17, 2024 |
Journal | SAGE Open |
Print ISSN | 2158-2440 |
Electronic ISSN | 2158-2440 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 1-17 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241275045 |
Keywords | role-control, emotions, role-boundary negotiations, role-conflict |
Publisher URL | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21582440241275045 |
Additional Information | Malik, F. (2024). UK Employed Women’s Experiences of Role-control Nuances (Decision Choice; Emotive Willingness) and Emotional-Experience Around Conflicting Work & Life. Sage Open, 14(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241275045 |
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