2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Boundary autonomy and organizational support for Work-Life Balance

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20530374
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Business administration
Research Institution	Kansai University
Principal Investigator	MORITA Masaya Kansai University, 社会学部, 教授 (40247896)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	TAKASE Takenori 関西大学, 社会学部, 教授 (90187956)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	ワーク・ライフ・バランス / 自律性 / 境界決定の自律性 / 制度的支援 / 非制度的支援 / 男性の育児休業
Research Abstract	Workers spending well-balanced working life have a greater degree of freedom to design the interface between work and life spheres by themselves. The author names this freedom as:boundary autonomy". Non-institutional supports such as the understanding and help from their superiors and colleagues and an organizational culture promoting well-harmonized work-life balance are also important for workers to attain work-life balance. Among the most important is the superior's management style. It is absolutely necessary to arrange non-institutional supports in addition to establish institutions in order to design work-life balanced organization.

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