May
28
By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon I’m going to preface this entire post by saying that I probably fall into the category of ‘digital junkie’ - I never go anywhere without my iPhone or iPad and seem to be constantly connected to email or some social network. I actually found myself...
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May
27
By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon Prof. Cary Cooper recently wrote an article for CNN which suggested that Americans could learn from Europe when it comes to work-life balance. While it’s an interesting piece, the online comments are most illuminating. Two things strike me about this article. Firstly, American readers don’t like being compared...
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May
24
By Dr. Richard A. MacKinnon Wendy Casper and colleagues wrote an interesting article in 2007 that I recently re-read. They highlight the need for a single-friendly culture in organisations - that is, whereby the culture doesn’t make single employees feel unwelcome or somehow excluded from the work-life balance debate. The...
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May
21
Next week, I’ll be flying to the Netherlands to present at the European Association of Work and Organisational Psychology (EAWOP) Conference 2011. I’ve attended and presented at the last four of these bi-annual conferences and based on my previous experience, I’m very much looking forward to the few days ahead in...
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Jan
29
I spotted an item in the news the other day about Research in Motion’s new Blackberry technology to help its customers improve their work-life balance. Called “Balance”, the new software will allow Blackberry users to keep their work-related content and personal content separate from each other. While adding to existing corporate security...
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Jan
06
Earlier this week I attended the 2011 Division of Occupational Psychology conference, held in Stratford-upon-Avon. Aside from presenting a poster on my own doctoral research and attending the usual round of presentations and workshops, I was invited to be the discussant at a symposium on Work-Life Balance and Health Behaviours. Organised...
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Dec
12
I’m sure I’m not the only professional psychologist who has to regularly describe what I actually *do* for a living. Despite the best efforts of the British Psychological Society, my experience tells me that a lot of the British public are still unclear as to what psychologists do and how they...
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Oct
16
The recession across Europe has shifted the focus of many commentators from well-being in organisations to the fundamental survival of those organisations. Unemployment in the private sector has risen sharply and the public sector in the UK is undergoing radical reorganisation and down-sizing. On the one hand, organisations are looking...
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Jul
28
Like many other research areas in psychology, the terminology used to address Work-Life Balance has developed with time, in the most part reflecting an evolution of research focus. However, there still remains a plethora of terms used, seemingly interchangeably, to describe an examination of the interface between the workplace and...
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Apr
02
The BBC today reported that a Japanese Mayor is taking paternity leave. Surely it’s a reflection on the status of work-life balance in Japan that this made the news at all! A district mayor in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, is going on paternity leave on Saturday, the first local government leader ever...
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