Maintaining a Sustainable Work–Life Balance

Edited by Peter Kruyen, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Stéfanie André, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, Beatrice van der Heijden, Professor of Strategic HRM, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands; Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Hubei University, Wuhan, China; and Kingston University, London, UK

Contents:

Foreword xxiii
Han van Krieken
Preface xxv

PART I SETTING THE STAGE
1 Introduction to maintaining a sustainable work–life balance 2
Peter Kruyen, Stéfanie André, and Beatrice Van der Heijden
2 Questioning the balance of work and life: some
philosophical observations 9
Hans Schilderman
3 Work hard, play hard: on the reciprocity of work
conditions and leisure lifestyles 16
Koen Van Eijck
4 Volunteering and work–life balance 23
Jessica Sowa
5 The impact of life and career stages on workers’ career
sustainability 30
Beatrice Van der Heijden, Ans De Vos, and Jos Akkermans
6 The value of work–life balance: cross-country and
cross-worker comparisons 38
Mara Yerkes and Karen van Hedel

PART II WORKPLACE SUPPORT
7 Combining work and informal caregiving: workplace
support to reduce work–care conflict 53
Ellen Verbakel and Cécile Boot
8 Leadership support and work–life balance 61
Laura den Dulk, Samantha Metselaar, Joëlle van der
Meer, and Brenda Vermeeren
9 Leadership, social support, and work–life balance of employees 69
Marloes Van Engen and Leire Gartzia
10 Work–life balance in essential and non-essential
occupations in the Netherlands 79
Stéfanie André and Chantal Remery
11 The use of work–life arrangements in academia: a critical
analysis of the potential to transform organizational norms 87
Inge Bleijenbergh

PART III DIGITALIZATION AND HOMEWORKING
12 Digital regulation in the service of sustainable work–life balance 96
Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Tammy Allen, Ellen Ernst
Kossek, Chang-Qin Lu, Gabriele Morandin, Sabrina
Pellerin, Ashkan Rostami, and Marcello Russo
13 Signaling support for work–family balance in order to
retain (tele)workers in hybrid work contexts: lessons from
the COVID-19 pandemic 104
Pascale Peters and Melanie De Ruiter
14 Balancing work and life at home: a longitudinal analysis
of working from home and work–life balance before and
during the pandemic 112
Laura den Dulk, Joëlle van der Meer, Samantha
Metselaar, and Brenda Vermeeren
15 Workplace flexibility and homeworking after COVID-19
in public-sector and private-sector organizations 120
Pablo Sanabria-Pulido and Palina Prysmakova
16 When you just can’t “let it go”: a study of work-to-life
conflict and job performance among Dutch public servants 129
Shelena Keulemans and Peter Kruyen

PART IV WORKING PARENTS
17 Returning to work after childbirth: maternal experiences
and spillover-crossover effects on the infant 139
Roseriet Beijers
18 Engaged fathers: towards a fatherhood premium or penalty? 146
Marc Grau-Grau and Stéfanie André
19 “Dadpreneurship”: a new practice among
second-generation Chinese-Dutch entrepreneurs to
achieve work–life balance 156
Yidong Tao and Caroline Essers
20 Work–family balance and mental well-being across
Europe: does a supportive country context matter? 163
Mark Visser, Gerbert Kraaykamp, and Stéfanie André

PART V WORK–LIFE BALANCE AND RETIREMENT
21 Sustainable work–life balance after retirement 172
Klaske Veth
22 Balancing retirement age and termination of employment 179
Mark Heemskerk

PART VI INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES FOR FOSTERING
WORK–LIFE BALANCE
23 Taking care of your own wellbeing 186
Marjolein van de Pol
24 Impact of strategies and interventions for
improving work–life balance 196
Marjolein van de Pol and Ron Hameleers
25 The Vocational Meaning and Fulfillment Survey: a new
tool for fostering employees’ work–life balance and career
sustainability 205
Johanna Rantanen, Saija Mauno, Sanna Konsti, Sanna
Markkula, and Gary Peterson
26 Sustainable work through crafting 213
Anne Mäkikangas, Jessica de Bloom, Philipp Kerksieck,
and Miika Kujanpää
27 Resetting time and priorities: communicative sensemaking
and implications of homeworking 220
Michael Coker, Sarah Riforgiate, Emily Godager, and
Inyoung Shin