Reimagining Work-Life Balance from Africa: Insights for Renewed Human Resource Management

Ameeta Jaga () and Bongekile P. Mabaso ()
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Ameeta Jaga: University of Cape Town
Bongekile P. Mabaso: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal

Chapter Chapter 2 in Work-Life Balance in Africa, 2023, pp 23-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Northern universalisms on work-life balance have circulated individualistic choice discourses and norms of formal work and nuclear family forms. Southern theories offer a lens that acknowledges the heterogeneity in the social world, requiring greater attention to place and space to inform plural knowledge that can be of relevance to work-life balance literature globally. Work-life balance knowledge from the African continent remains peripheral, yet its distinctive sociopolitical and economic setting, familiarity with uncertainty and inequality, and colonised histories can offer innovative and creative ways to grapple with contemporary work-life balance concerns in diverse contexts. We show how focusing on local particularities in African contexts can expand plural ways of understanding work-life balance for a more representative body of knowledge that can inform relevant human resource management policies and practices.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38008-2_2

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