Overview
- Focuses on work-life interface research broadly from the global south, the continents of Africa, Asia, and South America
- Identifies the current research gaps, divergent viewpoints, and controversies from a non-western perspective
- Offers critical perspectives and understanding of work-life interface/balance/conflict as a collection of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Theory
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Africa and the Arab World
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Asia
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South America
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Back Matter
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About this book
In today’s globalised world economy, it is becoming increasingly pressing to shine a light on the interface of work and private life. In order to fully understand the issue we must take an inclusive view and not limit our understanding to Western perspectives.
This contributed volume encompasses research and perspectives from the global south, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America. In doing so, this collection fills a gap in existing literature to give a broader view of the topic. Divided by geographic territory into three sections, the book combines original research, case studies and interviews as well as comparative studies. Chapters cover a wide range of emerging issues including gender and work-life balance; the role of culture; men and household work and work and family balance, to name a few. Crucially, the book offers critical perspectives and understanding of work-life interface/balance/conflict as a collection of conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies that draws on qualitative and mixed methodologies.
Bringing a unique contribution to the field, this book is a useful resource for students, academics, managers and policy makers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Toyin Ajibade Adisa is Senior Lecturer in HRM and Organisational Behaviour at the University of East London, UK. Currently, he is a course leader for HRM undergraduate course at UEL. His research interest covers areas of flexible working practices and gender equality. Toyin has published in high-impact academic journals.
Gbolahan Gbadamosi is Associate Professor Organisational Behaviour and HRM, Bournemouth University Business School, UK. He has over 100 academic publications, most in scholarly academic journals. Gbola at different times has been affiliated with 6 universities in 5 countries. He has completed several Ph.D. supervisions and about 20 doctoral examinations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Work-Life Interface
Book Subtitle: Non-Western Perspectives
Editors: Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Gbolahan Gbadamosi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66648-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66647-7Published: 10 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66650-7Published: 10 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66648-4Published: 09 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 423
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations