Beyond Work-Life “Integration”

Beyond Work-Life "Integration".

Research on the work-family interface began in the 1960s and has grown exponentially ever since. This vast amount of research, however, has had relatively little impact on workplace practice, and work-family conflict is at an all-time high. We review the work-family research to date and propose that a shift of attention is required, away from the individual experience of work and family and tow...

Beyond Work-Life "Balance".

T he desire for better work-life balance is a common concern among physicians and a key reason for choosing employed practice. But the term work-life balance has always struck me as problematic. In my experience, achieving a true balance between work and non-work activities is incredibly challenging and, when achieved, is fleeting. My moment of balance is quickly upended by a sick child, a pa...

Physician health: beyond work-life balance.

Beyond Integration

In contrast, the second, theoretical integration, as the name implies, refers to efforts aimed at synthesizing the underlying theories of different approaches (Saltzman & Norcross, 1990). Here, the focus is more theoretical than pragmatic. The best aspects of different approaches are combined into a superordinate theory that hopefully, ‘leads to new directions for practice and research ’ (p. 12...

Tool Integration beyond Wasserman

Abstr act. The typical development environment today consists of many specialized development tools, which are partially integrated, forming a complex tool landscape with partial integration. Traditional approaches for reasoning about tool integration are insufficient to measure the degree of integration and integration optimality in today's complex tool landscape. This paper presents a referen...