TY - JOUR
T1 - Boundary management preferences from a gender and cross-cultural perspective
AU - Allen, Tammy
AU - Beham, Barbara
AU - Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane
AU - Baierl, Andreas
AU - Alexandrova, Matilda
AU - Artiawati,
AU - Beauregard, Alexandra
AU - Carvalho, Vânia Sofia
AU - Chambel, Maria José
AU - Cho, Eunae
AU - Coden da Silva, Bruna
AU - Dawkins, Sarah
AU - Escribano, Pablo
AU - Gudeta, Konjit Hailu
AU - Huang, Ting pang
AU - Jaga, Ameeta
AU - Kost, Dominique
AU - Kurowska, Anna
AU - Leon, Emmanuelle
AU - Lewis, Suzan
AU - Lu, Chang qin
AU - Martin, Angela
AU - Morandin, Gabriele
AU - Noboa, Fabrizio
AU - Offer, Shira
AU - Ohu, Eugene
AU - Peters, Pascale
AU - Rajadhyaksha, Ujvala
AU - Russo, Marcello
AU - Sohn, Young Woo
AU - Straub, Caroline
AU - Tammelin, Mia
AU - Van Engen, Marloes
AU - Waismel-Manor, Ronit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2024/2
Y1 - 2024/2
N2 - Although work is increasingly globalized and mediated by technology, little research has accumulated on the role of culture in shaping individuals' preferences regarding the segmentation or integration of their work and family roles. This study examines the relationships between gender egalitarianism (the extent a culture has a fluid understanding of gender roles and promotes gender equality), gender, and boundary management preferences across 27 countries/territories. Based on a sample of 9362 employees, we found that the pattern of the relationship between gender egalitarianism and boundary management depends on the direction of segmentation preferences. Individuals from more gender egalitarian societies reported lower preferences to segment family-from-work (i.e., protect the work role from the family role); however, gender egalitarianism was not directly associated with preferences to segment work-from-family. Moreover, gender was associated with both boundary management directions such that women preferred to segment family-from-work and work-from-family more so than did men. As theorized, we found gender egalitarianism moderated the relationship between gender and segmentation preferences such that women's desire to protect family from work was stronger in lower (vs. higher) gender egalitarianism cultures. Contrary to expectations, women reported a greater preference to protect work from family than men regardless of gender egalitarianism. Implications for boundary management theory and the cross-national work-family literature are discussed.
AB - Although work is increasingly globalized and mediated by technology, little research has accumulated on the role of culture in shaping individuals' preferences regarding the segmentation or integration of their work and family roles. This study examines the relationships between gender egalitarianism (the extent a culture has a fluid understanding of gender roles and promotes gender equality), gender, and boundary management preferences across 27 countries/territories. Based on a sample of 9362 employees, we found that the pattern of the relationship between gender egalitarianism and boundary management depends on the direction of segmentation preferences. Individuals from more gender egalitarian societies reported lower preferences to segment family-from-work (i.e., protect the work role from the family role); however, gender egalitarianism was not directly associated with preferences to segment work-from-family. Moreover, gender was associated with both boundary management directions such that women preferred to segment family-from-work and work-from-family more so than did men. As theorized, we found gender egalitarianism moderated the relationship between gender and segmentation preferences such that women's desire to protect family from work was stronger in lower (vs. higher) gender egalitarianism cultures. Contrary to expectations, women reported a greater preference to protect work from family than men regardless of gender egalitarianism. Implications for boundary management theory and the cross-national work-family literature are discussed.
KW - Boundary management
KW - Cross-cultural
KW - Gender
KW - Gender egalitarianism
KW - Work-family
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103943
DO - 10.1016/j.jvb.2023.103943
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85180508072
SN - 0001-8791
VL - 148
JO - Journal of Vocational Behavior
JF - Journal of Vocational Behavior
M1 - 103943
ER -