Anytime Email and Work-Life Balance - An Exploration into the Views of Adventist Schools Australia Employees
"This study examines
the effects of email intrusion on work-life
balance from the perspective of a Christian
faith-based organisation, which has the
additional dimension of espousing a ‘healthy’
balance between work and life. A survey
of 500 employees of such an organisation,
attracting 208 respondents, found that nearly all
employees owned mobile devices that enable
them to access work email outside work time,
and that they frequently use these devices
when not at work to access work emails. The
employees perceived that anytime work emails
have provided them with increased flexibility,
but at the same time generated greater and
frequently unrealistic expectations of them, by
parents, students and to a minor degree school
administrators. These employees also often felt
that these anytime emails led them to working
longer hours, generated a sense of being overloaded, contrary to the espoused values
of a work and life balance and the importance
of family. For these employees the solution to
the anytime work email intrusion and resulting
stress is not some external control. To most
of these employees external control would be
much too restrictive and teaching was perceived
to be and has always been more than just an
8.30am to 3.30pm responsibility."
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Availability:
Free
Publication Date:
2014
Authors:
Peter Williams; Warrick Long; Peter Morey
Publisher:
Avondale Academic Press PO Box 19 Cooranbong, NSW 2265 | Phone: 61 2 4980 2233 FAX: 61 2 4980 2118 Email: robert.mciver@avondale.edu.au URL: http://www.avondale.edu.au/research/avondale-academic-press/ |
Order Information:
Teach Journal of Christian Education, Volume 8, Issue 2, Page 40
Topics:
Language:
English
Resource Type:
Internet Resources; Published Articles & Papers
Resource Objective:
Research
Level:
Kindergarten-Tertiary
Audience:
Administrator / Leader, Researcher
Religious Origin:
Seventh-day Adventist