James Cook University in Singapore - PCC #2

Peoples, Cultures and Careers #2 - The work-family story we’re not telling: insights from overlooked contexts

Moderator: Professor Eddy Ng, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, James Cook University

Speaker:

Professor Alexandra Beauregard, Professor of Organizational Psychology, Birkbeck University of London

Research on work and family remains dominated by samples of middle-class, cisgender, heterosexual mothers of young children drawn from Western nations. This dominance has shaped not only empirical knowledge about the prevalence and consequences of work-family conflict, but also the theoretical assumptions underpinning the field; there is an emphasis on individual negotiation, nuclear family arrangements and relatively gender-neutral conceptualizations of work and care. Relatively little attention is paid to the intersecting layers of context influencing people’s work-family experiences and outcomes: global, national, organisational, temporal, and demographic.

In this talk, we will explore what can be learned from research that takes context into greater account when studying work and family. We will review recent research that examines work-family experiences in understudied geographic areas and among understudied populations

Venue: James Cook University (Singapore Campus), C4-14

Time: 10am - 11am (SGT)

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