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  • 22 - Implications of the Changing Nature of Work for the Interface between Work and Nonwork Roles

  • from Part III - Implications for Talent Management and Impact on Employees
  • Edited by Brian J. Hoffman, University of Georgia, Mindy K. Shoss, University of Central Florida, Lauren A. Wegman, University of Georgia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Changing Nature of Work
    Published online:
    02 April 2020
    Print publication:
    23 April 2020, pp 467-488

  • Summary

    The changing nature of work has produced a variety of work demands or stressors (e.g., job insecurity, financial instability, unpredictability of work schedules) that can interfere with life outside of work, and has also provided significant resources to some employees in the form of flexibility in the scheduling and location of work, enhanced levels of autonomy or discretion on the job, and exposure to different cultures. Managing the demands and capitalizing on the resources require employees to make proactive work–nonwork decisions that take all important facets of their life into account. The effectiveness of work–nonwork decisions is often dependent on the support that individuals and their families receive from the organizations for which they work and the societies in which they live.

  • The Growing Discontents of Older British Employees: Extended Working Life at Risk from Quality of Working Life

  • Deborah Smeaton, Michael White
  • Journal:
    Social Policy and Society / Volume 15 / Issue 3 / July 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 July 2015, pp. 369-385
    Print publication:
    July 2016

  • A key component of sustainable welfare policy is the extension of working life (EWL). Currently this aim is chiefly pursued by financial policies, neglecting the potential role of quality of working life (QWL) in attracting people to remain employed. National survey data for Britain in the years 1992, 2006 and 2012 demonstrate deteriorating overall job attitude among older employees, following the changed competitive and technological conditions of the 1990s. The investigation goes on to diagnose aspects of the work situation implicated in adverse experience of work among older employees. Work demands and the nature of work emerge as key areas of discontent, with additional evidence of insecurity, and dissatisfaction with pensions, emerging over the recent recession. Policies potentially addressing QWL, with particular attention to the role of employers, are reviewed in the conclusion.