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What is Boundary Integration

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Optimizing Data and New Methods for Efficient Knowledge Discovery and Information Resources Management: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Employees assimilate their work and personal time and have both flexibility and permeability. Boundary Theory originally defined boundaries as lying on an integration/segmentation continuum.
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Re-Defining Work-Life Boundaries: Individual, Organizational, and National Policy Implications
Donna Weaver McCloskey (Widener University, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2235-6.ch002
Abstract
Technology has radically changed the way we live and work. This chapter explores the boundaries that knowledge workers employ to delineate work and personal time and the resulting outcomes. Based on scholarly research, the author proposes redefining the work-life boundary into three dimensions: flexibility, work boundary permeability, and home boundary permeability. While no longer able to control the time and place factors that once defined our work and personal time, employees can use behavioral and communicative tactics to maintain balance. These individual policy decisions and potential work-life balance tools are discussed. Organizations can support new boundary controls through education, support, and training. Finally, technology has resulted in cultural and societal changes, which may continue to be supported through national policy.
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