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Top Executives' Work Relationship and Work-Family Balance

Taxonomy Development and Performance Implications

AutorEva-Maria Bauer
VerlagGabler Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2010
Seitenanzahl202 Seiten
ISBN9783834985484
FormatPDF
KopierschutzDRM
GerätePC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Preis46,99 EUR
Eva-Maria Bauer presents two theoretically grounded taxonomies which describe the different ways how top executives manage their work relationship and work-family balance.



Dr. Eva-Maria Bauer completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ruth Stock-Homburg at the department Department of Marketing & Human Resource Management at the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

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3 Basics of the Empirical Studies (S. 71-72)

As outlined before, the empirical part of the taxonomy development procedure consists of a qualitative and a quantitative study. The basics of these studies, concerning both taxonomies, namely the data collection procedures, the samples and the analysis techniques will be outlined in the following. First, in chapter 3.1 the basics of the qualitative study will be outlined, followed by the basics of the quantitative studying in chapter 3.2.

3.1 Qualitative Study

The purpose of the qualitative study within the empirical portion of our taxonomy development process focuses on enriching and elaborating the theory-based frameworks of our taxonomies. The content-related issues concerning top executives’ work relationship and workfamily balance will be outlined in later sections of this thesis (see chapter 3.2.4 and 5). In the following the basics of the qualitative study will be presented, that is to say the data collection and sample (see section 3.1.1) and the content analysis technique used to evaluate and interpret the qualitative data (see section 3.1.2).

3.1.1 Data Collection and Sample

For participant acquisition, we contacted 44 top executives by an initial letter and then telephone solicitations and asked them to give us a personal interview on their work-life balance situation. These top executives were members of the top management, “including CEOs and their immediate subordinates” (Eisenhardt/Bourgeois 1988, p. 739). Thus, in addition to CEOs, our sample includes “the heads of major functions such as sales, engineering, and finance” (Eisenhardt/Bourgeois 1988, p. 739). As an incentive, we offered a detailed personalized report of their personal resources compared with those of other top executives, as well as recommendations for ways they could handle job-related demands and ameliorate their worklife balance situation.

As a result, 42 top executives accepted to participate, whereas only two did not participate because of time constraints. The top executives in the sample were 88 percent men, 95 percent married or close-partnered and 90 percent had children. They had an average age of 50.8 years and an average of 17 years of work experience as top executive. The companies were located in a wide array of industrial sectors (e.g., automotive industry, building and construction industry, chemical and pharmaceutical industry, consulting, and publicshing industry). With this heterogeneous sample regarding age, tenure, and industries, we intended to generate a wide array of top executives’ perceived work relationship and work-family balance situation. In order to approve the theoretically derived facets and constructs of top executives’ work relationship and work-family balance, we collected data through semistructured interviews with individual respondents.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Series Foreword6
Foreword8
Acknowledgements10
Table of Contents11
List of Figures14
List of Tables15
List of Abbreviations17
1 Introduction18
1.1 Relevance of the Thesis18
1.1.1 Managerial Relevance18
1.1.2 Scientific Relevance20
1.2 Major Goals and Structure of the Thesis23
2 Conceptual Background26
2.1 Procedure of Taxonomy Development26
2.2 Literature Review29
2.2.1 Research on Top Executives30
2.2.2 Research on Work Relationship40
2.2.3 Research on Work-Family Balance49
2.2.4 Specification of Investigated Phenomena63
2.3 Theoretical Background of Top Executives’ Work Relationship Taxonomy67
2.3.1 The Job Demands-Resources Model67
2.3.2 Upper Echelons Theory72
2.3.3 Theoretical Conclusion for the Understanding of Top Executives’ Work Relationship76
2.4 Theoretical Background of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance Taxonomy78
2.4.1 Role Theory78
2.4.2 Mechanisms of Work-Family Linkage82
2.4.3 Theoretical Conclusion for the Understanding of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance84
3 Basics of the Empirical Studies88
3.1 Qualitative Study88
3.1.1 Data Collection and Sample88
3.1.2 Process of Qualitative Content Analysis90
3.2 Quantitative Study91
3.2.1 Data Collection and Sample91
3.2.2 Process of Scale Validation95
3.2.3 Process of Cluster Analysis98
3.2.4 Process of Analysis of Variance101
4 Investigation of Top Executives’ Work Relationship104
4.1 Preliminary Conceptual Framework of Top Executives’ Work Relationship104
4.2 Qualitative Results Regarding Top Executives’ Work Relationship106
4.3 Final Empirically Grounded Framework of Top Executives’ Work Relationship114
4.3.1 Job-Related Demands115
4.3.2 Job-Related Resources115
4.3.3 Related Variables of Top Executives’ Work Relationship116
4.3.3.1 Well-Being and Satisfaction116
4.3.3.2 Top Executive Performance117
4.3.3.3 Organizational Performance117
4.4 Measurement of Top Executives’ Work Relationship118
4.4.1 Measures of Active Cluster Variables Constituting Top Executives’ Work Relationship119
4.4.1.1 Top Executives’ Job-Related Demands119
4.4.1.2 Top Executives’ Job-Related Resources120
4.4.2 Measures of Related Variables of Top Executives’ Work Relationship123
4.4.2.1 Executive-Related Variables123
4.4.2.1.1 Well-Being and Satisfaction123
4.4.2.1.2 Top Executive Performance125
4.4.2.2 Organizational Performance126
4.5 Interpretation of Cluster Solutions129
4.6 Related Variables of Top Executives’ Work Relationship Types136
5 Investigation of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance146
5.1 Preliminary Conceptual Framework of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance146
5.2 Qualitative Results Regarding Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance147
5.3 Final Empirically Grounded Framework of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance153
5.3.1 Top Executives’ Satisfaction154
5.3.2 Top Executives’ Functioning154
5.3.3 Top Executives’ Work-Family Conflict156
5.3.4 Related variables of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance156
5.3.4.1 Individual Variables156
5.3.4.2 Work-Related Variables157
5.3.4.3 Family-Related Variables157
5.4 Measurement of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance157
5.4.1 Measures of Active Cluster Variables Constituting Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance157
5.4.1.1 Top Executives’ Satisfaction158
5.4.1.2 Top Executives’ Functioning158
5.4.1.3 Top Executives’ Work-Family Conflict159
5.4.2 Measures of Related Variables of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance160
5.4.2.1 Individual Variables160
5.4.2.2 Work-Related Variables161
5.4.2.3 Family-Related Variables162
5.5 Interpretation of Cluster Solution163
5.6 Related Variables of Top Executives’ Work-Family Balance Types171
6 Discussion178
6.1 Contribution of the Thesis178
6.1.1 Content-Related Contribution178
6.1.2 Conceptual Contribution181
6.1.3 Methodological Contribution183
6.1.4 Implications for Business Practice184
6.2 Limitations and Future Research186
References190
Appendix214

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