Boundary Management Tactics: An Examination of the Alignment with Preferences in the Work and Family Domains

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title

Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management

Volume

16

Issue

2

Publisher

Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management

First Page

51

Last Page

70

Publication Date

12-1-2016

Abstract

Building on boundary management, we develop and test a measure of four boundary management tactics (temporal, physical, behavioral, communicative) for both the work and family domains. We extend the understanding of how people use tactics to manage boundaries using a sample of 639 working individuals and examining tactics as mediators as well as both antecedents (family and work segmentation preferences) and consequences (job satisfaction, job engagement, family satisfaction, family engagement) of these tactics. We discuss the study’s implications for theory, and practice while suggesting new research directions.

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