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The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Wellbeing is a comprehensive and cutting-edge work providing the latest insights into a range of perspectives on organizational wellbeing, as well as highlighting global wellbeing issues and exploring new contexts. Topics covered include: digital working and social media, LGBTQIA+ identifications and work, suicide at work, refugee workers, and mental health. A multi- and inter-disciplinary work, this handbook embraces ideas and empirical work from a range of fields including psychology, business and management, economics, and science. This handbook draws together current knowledge whilst also outlining emerging issues and directions, making this an invaluable resource for students and researchers spanning a wide array of disciplines. Part 1: Theoretical Perspectives; Part 2: International Issues and Contexts; Part 3: Developing Organizational Wellbeing; and Part 4: Emerging Issues and Directions.
Wellbeing and Work–Life Boundaries/Interfaces
Wellbeing and Work–Life Boundaries/Interfaces
Introduction
Something there is that doesn't love a wall ….
Good fences make good neighbors.
The point of this chapter is to understand how boundaries and interfaces work to complement each other as organizing devices to regulate work–life systems in order to enhance the wellbeing in organizational life. Robert Frost's (1914) poem ‘Mending Wall', from which the opening lines are taken, speaks to the intractability of boundaries and interfaces. There is a paradox here. On the one hand is the instinct to be safe and secure, surrounded by good fences and strong walls. On the other hand is the instinct to be free, go forth into the world, ...
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