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标题：Work–Life Balance and the Needs of Female Employees in the Telecommunications Industry in a Developing Country
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作者：Mahmoud Abubaker ; Christopher Bagley
期刊名称：Comprehensive Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2165-2228
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：5
DOI：10.1177/2165222816648075
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：Finding a balance between the demands of the role requirements of work, family, and social life is a challenging problem for modern society and is particularly relevant for the growth of women’s participation in the workforce. These role conflicts may result in significant psychological stress for individuals. For corporations, stressed employees are also a problem. Work–life balance (WLB) programs to address these issues have emerged in Western countries in the past three decades and have been evaluated in various ways in multidisciplinary studies which have employed sociological and psychological methodologies. WLB programs in developed countries often reflect the ethos of particular cultures, and Western models may not be wholly relevant for cross-cultural comparison. The present study explores these issues using the methodology of critical realism in companies in the telecommunications sector of Palestine. This qualitative study develops a complex model of a newly identified set of factors, which may be relevant for other Arabic cultural settings. Further exploration of this model using psychometric techniques is proposed.
关键词：work-life-balance; human relations management; Palestine; telecommunications; women’s employment; critical realism