Work-Life Balance for All?
How individuals and organizations could manage and support a positive work and non-work interface—commonly known as work-life balance—is receiving mounting interest.
This project is looking for students who are passionate about workplace issues and dynamics, and especially about how work and life outside work (e.g., leisure, recreation, childcare, family life) intersect, are experienced, and managed at individual and organizational levels.
This project has an initial potential focus on family-MSMEs (micro-small-medium enterprises), which, given their presence in our surrounding community, offer the scope of primary data collection. This focus will be discussed and refined with the team members of this project. However, there is scope for changes, and other options.
Greater and granular understanding of current state-of-the-art of the literature on the topic, emerging trends (also linked to socio-economic trends), and potential gaps and caveats (terminological, conceptual, empirical, and theoretical).
- Understanding of research methodology and its uses to specific projects
- Refinement of research questions, and formulation of new research questions.
- Potential formulation of a larger research project.
- Potential impact-related outcomes: production of a report, to be shared internally, especially on differences across demographic groups. Show-case research from VIPs. Potential reports for businesses.