Selected Papers for the 6th International Community, Work, and Family Conference

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2015) | Viewed by 178

Special Issue Editor

Institute of Culture and Society, Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, SE-205 06 Malmö, Sweden
Interests: work/non-work experiences; boundary management; work/non-work preferences; integration & segmentation, work-life equilibrium; urban context; alternative lifestyles and work-life choices.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue is based on interesting contributions from the 6th Community, Work, and Family conference, which was organized by the Department of Urban Studies and the Centre for Work-Life and Evaluation Studies at Malmö University in May 2015.

Consistent with the overall aim of the International Community, Work, and Family conference, this 6th conference aims to increase knowledge on community, work, and family relations from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The 6th International Community, Work, and Family conference focuses on how community, work, and family relate to each other in a meaningful way in time and space.

This Special Issue will fulfil this aim by focusing on relations between the community, work, and family in time and space, and by focusing on the four major themes of the conference.

  • Lifespan Decision-Making:

This theme encourages discussions about the social and individual constraints affecting the development of relations between work, family, and community throughout one’s lifetime and how decisions are made to reach meaningful relations between community, work, and family in time and space. We encourage contributions addressing the relations between community, work, and family in the context of aging and dependent care, shifts from student to working life (paid and non-paid), retirement, unemployment, and work transition. We invite papers on decision-making about lifestyle migration and career management decisions, including work-arrangements (paid and voluntary) and family choices.

  • Diversity:

This theme addresses the potential impact of diversity, as understood in a broad sense, on the relations between community, work, and family. We welcome papers presenting diversity in terms of individual background and family constellations. We encourage contributions on meaningful relations for special populations, including military families, immigrant families, single-parent families, racially and ethnically diverse families, and LGBT families. We invite papers on diversity in organizational, cultural, societal, and communal settings. We want inter-cultural research showing that different “places” are essential to meaningful relations between work, family, and community. We invite papers discussing how places, in terms of high-income versus low-income countries, and Global-North versus Global-South settings, affect meaningful relations between community, work, and family.

  • Urbanization And Mobility:

This theme aims to stimulate discussions on the positive and negative consequences of urbanization with regard to meaningful relations between work, family, and community in time and space, including the issue of mobility between the three domains. We invite contributions focusing on urban community, urban security, and work-life, urban regeneration for meaningful life, transport strategy for work-life integration, municipal strategies for work-life, urban design, and planning for work-life balance. We encourage papers discussing how meaningful relations contribute to urban development as well as their consequences for rural development.

  • Leading And Organizing:

This theme is to stimulate a debate on how the processes of organizing and leading support the development of meaningful relations between work, family, and community. We seek submissions concerning the roles of leaders at different levels and in different contexts in shaping possibilities for meaningful relations. We encourage papers on work engagement, the discourse of leisure/pleasure, motivation, and collaborative and innovative practices, the use of projects and teams, and social networks for meaningful relations between work, family, and community. We invite papers on trends and innovations in leading and organizing communities, including papers on the roles of social entrepreneurship for meaningful relations between work, family, and community in time and space.

Dr. Jean-Charles E. Languilaire
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Meaningful work-life relationships
  • Organizational role in a meaningful relationship
  • Meaningful work-life relation overtime

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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