The key to work-life balance is (enriched) job design? : three-way interaction effects with formalization and adaptive personality characteristics

Lamovšek, Amadeja (author), Černe, Matej (author), Radević, Ivan (author), Božič, Katerina (author)

The COVID-19 outbreak has blurred the boundaries between work and personal life, making the concept of work-life balance (WLB) even more important. Based on a three-source (employees, family members, and supervisors) sample (n = 436) of working professionals, we investigated the importance of enriched job design for employee WLB. In addition, on the basis of the job demand-control (JD-C) model, we examined whether organizationally imposed formalization and employees’ individual adaptive personality traits (proactive personality and resilience) act as boundary conditions that strengthen this positive relationship. First, we conducted a supplementary analysis to investigate further which of the enriched job design characteristics play the most important role in our three-way interaction models predict- ing WLB. Then we discuss implications for theory and practice.

• Language: English
• Keywords: personell, telework, family, pandemic, work–life balance (WLB), enriched job design (enriched JD), formalization, COVID-19, personality traits
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: In print
• Publication version: Author Accepted Manuscript
• Year: 2022
• Numbering: [in press] 2022
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-140837
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 1871-2584
• DOI: 10.1007/s11482-022-10100-9
• COBISS.SI-ID: 119912451
• Publication date in RUL: 19.09.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Applied research in quality of life
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 1871-2584
• COBISS.SI-ID: 114425859

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: kadri, delo na daljavo, družina, pandemija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-2555
• Name: Oblikovanje organizacije v digitalni dobi

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0410
• Name: Digitalizacija kot gonilo trajnostnega razvoja posameznika, organizacij in družbe