The benefits of bad economies: Business cycles and time-based work-life conflict

• Main Authors: BARNES, Christopher M., LEFTER, Alexandru, Devasheesh P. BHAVE, WAGNER, David Turley
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: business cycles; recovery activities; sleep; work-family conflict; work-life conflict; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4988; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/5987/viewcontent/The_benefits_of_bad_economies_4.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent management research has indicated the importance of family, sleep, and recreation as nonwork activities of employees. Drawing from entrainment theory, we develop an expanded model of work-life conflict to contend that macrolevel business cycles influence the amount of time employees spend on...