 The Role of Culture in the Work-Life Border Management: An Insight from Ghanaian Married Female Workers in the Formal SectorKwame Adom ()
Chapter Chapter 3 in Work-Life Interface, 2021, pp 57-96 from Springer Abstract: Abstract This chapter explores the role of culture in the work-life balance management of married female Ghanaian employees in the formal sector, through the lens of the institutional theory. The qualitative research approach was adopted with interpretivist and phenomenology being the approaches used. A thematic textual analysis was done based on in-depth interviews with fifteen (15) respondents. The study reveals that married female employees in Ghana experienced role conflicts that were culturally embedded. This creates the need for work-life balance, which is challenging to achieve considering the availability of limited flexible working schedules, coupled with the non-adherence to Ghanaian labour laws. Married females in the study context, however, rely on family/spousal support, hiring the services of house-helps, and effective planning as ways of work-life balance management. To the best of the knowledge of the researcher, this is the first known study that explores culture and work-life balance of females in Ghana. Date: 2021 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-66648-4_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-66648-4_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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