Jean-charles Languilaire

Experiencing Work / Non-work: Theorising Individuals? Process of Integrating and Segmenting Work, Family, Social and Private Jean-charles Languilaire

The relationships between work and personal life have been on the public, business, and research agenda for about 35 years. Perspectives on these relationships have shifted from a work-family to work-life or work-personal life focus, from a conflict to a balance or enrichment view and, finally, from a segmentation to an integration perspective. This book adopts a HUMANISTIC perspective having individuals in focus. The book explores and provides an understanding of individuals' work/non-work experiences from a boundary perspective. It analyses and interprets the life stories of six middle-managers. The book theorises individuals' work/non-work experiences into a model of individuals' work/non-work experiences. This model shall help individuals to understand processes behind their work/non-work experiences in their private, organizational and societal contexts. This book also concludes that segmenting AND integrating are essential for the harmony between one's life domains namely one's work, one's family, one's social and one's private.