Work-Nonwork Management

Work-Nonwork Management: Research and Practice in a Changing Work Context advances the understanding of how individuals, couples, teams, and organizations can effectively navigate work-nonwork integration in ways that promote well-being and productivity.

The book considers how individuals form and shape boundaries between their work and nonwork roles, sheds light on the role of supervisors in enabling individuals’ work-nonwork management while effectively leading teams with diverging work-nonwork needs and interests, and clarifies how organizations can develop and implement effective work-nonwork policies. Highlighting the importance of embracing work-nonwork diversity within organizational culture, the expert contributors offer hands-on recommendations to facilitate the handling of and benefit from having multiple roles in this new work context. Going beyond the traditional, the book considers the experiences of blue-collar and non-standard workers, individuals employed in family businesses and small-to-medium-sized businesses, and LGBTQIA+ individuals, as well as adopting a global perspective by looking at cross-cultural differences in how individuals reconcile and negotiate their work and nonwork roles.

Essential reading for students and academics in psychology and management studying the work-nonwork interface, this volume also serves as an invaluable resource for supervisors, HR professionals, and organizational decision-makers seeking to support employee well-being while enhancing organizational attractiveness in an increasingly competitive talent marketplace.

Nina M. Junker is a Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Oslo. Prior to her current appointment, she worked as an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she also obtained her PhD. She is a work-nonwork scholar with a particular aim of contributing to a better understanding of how individuals can successfully manage multiple roles and deal with gaining and losing social roles and group memberships. Her work has been published in leading outlets, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Leadership Quarterly. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Organizational Psychology Review, and her prior work received funding from German and Norwegian funders.

Maria Karanika-Murray is a Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on well-being and performance and a range of questions around their nature and management, individually and in tandem, including attendence behavior, the work-nonwork interface, workplace health interventions, and sustainable work. Her work on presenteeism was honored with the Human Relations Paper of the Year Award 2020. She has delivered research for national research councils, European funders, charities, government, and industry, and has written widely for academic, policy, and practitioner audiences. Through her work she brings disparate stakeholders together to build knowledge and fortify practice.

Sir Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is a founding President of the British Academy of Management, Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), former President of RELATE, and President of the Institute of Welfare. He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, former Editor of the scholarly journal Stress and Health, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, now in its third edition. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation, International Labour Organization, and the European Union in the field of occupational health and well-being, was Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Chronic Disease of the World Economic Forum (2009-2010) (then served for 5 years on the Global Agenda Council for mental health of the WEF), and was Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2009-2015. He was Chair of the Sunningdale Institute in the Cabinet Office and National School of Government, 2005-2010. Professor Cooper is currently the Chair of the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing at Work (comprised of 40 global companies, e.g., BP, Microsoft, NHS Executive, UK government [well-being lead], Rolls Royce, and John Lewis Partnership). He is the author/editor of over 250 books in the field of occupational health psychology, workplace well-being, women at work, and occupational stress. He was awarded the CBE by the Queen for his contributions to occupational health, and in 2014 he was awarded a Knighthood for his contribution to the social sciences.