Failures of flexibility: How perceived control motivates the individualization of work-life conflict

• Main Authors: WYNN, Alison T., RAO, Aliya Hamid
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: work-family policies; working time; overwork; qualitative methods; ideal worker; Family, Life Course, and Society; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2828; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4085/viewcontent/Wynn_Rao_FailuresofFlexibility.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Firms have increasingly used flexibility policies to facilitate work-life balance, yet existing research shows that employees are stigmatized for using these seemingly beneficial policies. In this article, the authors identify perceived control, that is, the sense of control employees feel they have...