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Work and Family Encyclopedia

Current Editors:  Stephen Sweet & Judi Casey
Founding Editors:  Ellen Kossek & Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes

The Work and Family Encyclopedia is an online, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia. Encyclopedia entries have been authored by scholars with expertise in the work and family area of study.  The Encyclopedia is intended to serve as a resource to academics as well as leaders at the workplace and state policy makers.

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Interested in making a contribution? Please contact Stephen Sweet at ssweet@ithaca.edu

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A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W




A
  • Adulthood: Changing Concepts and Definitions (2003)
  • After-school Care and Work-Life Issues (2008)
  • Aging and Work (2007)
  • Alternative Work Arrangements (2004)
  • Asian Women and Work-Family Issues (2007)

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    B
  • Boundary/Border Theory and Work-Family Integration (2003)

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    C
  • Career Development of Women (2002)
  • Career Stages (2003)
  • Career-Prioritizing in Dual Earner Couples (2008)
  • Child Labor: A Historical Perspective (2007)
  • Co-worker Backlash and Support: Responses to Work-Family Policies and Practices (2009)
  • Collaborative Interactive Action Research (2007)
  • Community as a Context for the Work-Family Interface (2002)
  • Commuter Couples and Distance Relationships: Living Apart Together (2009)
  • Compressed Workweek Schedules (2009)
  • Conservation of Resources Theory (2001)
  • Conservation of Resources Theory (2006)
  • Corporate Decision-Making Process: How Organizations Decide to Adopt Work/Life Initiatives (2004)
  • Critical Analysis of the Glass Ceiling Phenomenon (2005)
  • Cross-Generational Issues in Organizations (2006)
  • Crossover of Stress and Strain between Spouses (2005)

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    D
  • Developing a Work/Life Strategy in a Multinational Enterprise (MNE) (2006)
  • Disabilities and Work-Family Challenges: Parents Having Children with Special Health Care Needs (2008)
  • Discrimination Against Employees Who Are Also Family Caregivers (2003)
  • Domestic Violence and Work: Legal and Business Perspectives (2009)
  • Dual Labor Market and Its Work-Family Implications (2008)
  • Dual-Earner Couples (2003)

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    E
  • Educational Careers, Returning to School and Work-Family Concerns (2008)
  • Ethnographic Methods and Work-Family Research (2009)
  • Experience Sampling Method: Measuring Work and Family Time Commitments (2009)
  • Extending Work-Family Concepts to the Lives of Latinas (2007)

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    F
  • Fair Labor Standards Act (2002)
  • Family and Medical Leave Act (2003)
  • Family Diversity (2005)
  • Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America (2004)
  • Family Leave: A Policy Concept Made in America, A Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia Entry (short version) (2004)
  • Family Well-Being (2004)
  • Family-Friendly Community, The (2008)
  • Family-Friendly Policies and Organizational Justice (2002)
  • Family-Friendly Workplace (2002)
  • FAQ: Extended Maternity Leave
  • Fatherhood: Comparative Western Perspectives (2005)
  • Fathers (2004)
  • Flexible Work Arrangements (2003)
  • Flextime (2003)
  • Flextime, A Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia Entry (short version) (2003)

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    G
  • Gender Crossing, Work-Family Configurations, and Career Outcomes (2009)
  • Gender: Work-Family Ideologies and Roles (2001)

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    H
  • Helping Behaviors: Volunteerism and Taking Care of Kin (2005)
  • Heterosexism in the Workplace (2007)
  • Historical Perspective on Social Change (2005)

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    I
  • Identity Theory (2002)
  • Immigration and Work-Family Concerns (2009)
  • International Perspectives on Organizational Performance (2004)

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    J
  • Job Insecurity (2006)
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment (2004)

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    L
  • Legal Professions and Job Demands: Implications for Work/Life Balance (2007)
  • Life Satisfaction (2006)
  • Low-Level Jobs and Work-Family Studies (2007)

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    M
  • Marital Satisfaction and the Work-Family Interface: An Overview (2007)
  • Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes (2001)
  • Measurement of Organizational Outcomes (2003)

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    N
  • Nonstandard Work Schedules and Work-Family Issues (2007)

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    O
  • Organizational Barriers (2003)

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    P
  • Parenting in the Workplace (2008)
  • Pay Equity (2006)
  • Perceived Usability of Work/Family Policies (2004)
  • Personality Traits of Workers and the Work-Family Interface (2007)
  • Phased Retirement and Reduced Hours in Late Careers (2008)
  • Pregnancy Discrimination Act (2005)
  • Protean Career (2004)
  • Psychological Contract (2003)

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    R
  • Recruitment (2004)
  • Reduced Hours Work/Part-Time Work (2003)
  • Rituals of the Family (2002)
  • Rituals of the Workplace (2003)
  • Role Stress/Strain and Work-Family (2002)
  • Rural Families and Work-Family Issues (2008)

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    S
  • Sandwiched Generation (2002)
  • Social Capital (2006)
  • Societal Cultural Models of Work and Family: An International Perspective (2005)
  • Spousal Supports Provided by Employers (2008)
  • Spousal Wage Gaps: Income Disparities in Couples (2009)
  • Stereotypes: The Impact of Prescriptions on Workers’ Experiences (2007)

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    T
  • Telecommuting (2003)
  • Telecommuting (short version) (2003)
  • Traditional Gender Roles (2006)
  • Transnational Families (2007)

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    U
  • Unions and Work and Family Integration (2003)

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    W
  • Welfare Reform and Work-Family Studies (2003)
  • Work and Family: A Cross-Cultural Psychological Perspective (2004)
  • Work and Family: Cross-National Comparisons (2006)
  • Work Time and Gender Inequities (2003)
  • Work-Family Culture (2004)
  • Work-Family Experiences and Physical Health: A Summary and Critical Review* (2008)
  • Work-Family Guilt (2005)
  • Work-Family Linkages (2003)
  • Work-Family Policies and Gender Inequality at Work (2005)
  • Work-Family Role Conflict (2003)
  • Workaholism (2005)
  • Workaholism (short version) (2005)

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