Work-life balance of university teachers after two years of telework during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2023-12-16 DOI:10.3233/hsm-230089

Margarita Bakracheva, Ekaterina Sofronieva, Martin Tsenov

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Apart from being a topic of key interest during the last decades for its individual and organizational effectiveness, work-life balance also has specific implications during the period of imposed remote work. OBJECTIVE: The article outlines some of the antecedents of university teachers’ work-life balance. They were the only professionals teleworking during the whole period of imposed restriction and furthermore, university teachers are a group of professionals without any prior home office or remote work experience. METHODS: The cross-sectional study comprises randomized convenient sample of 708 university teachers who were administered an online instrument, measuring the constructs of work-life balance, perceived stress, burnout, job satisfaction, general health, general fears and anxiety, and satisfaction with personal relations. RESULTS: The results reveal that perceived stress, burnout, job satisfaction, physical and mental health, psychosomatic problems and quality of relations are antecedents of participants’ work-life balance. CONCLUSIONS: University teachers have adapted to the new working mode and succeeded in maintaining moderate levels of work-life balance and burnout. However, our findings outline the need of a robust comprehensive framework, accounting for the multiple and multi-level predictors of work-life balance. Future research and HR perspectives have been outlined.

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高校教师在 COVID-19 大流行期间远程工作两年后的工作与生活平衡问题

背景：在过去的几十年中，工作与生活的平衡不仅因其对个人和组织的有效性而备受关注，而且在强制推行远程工作期间也具有特殊的意义。目的：文章概述了大学教师工作与生活平衡的一些前因。他们是整个限制期内唯一从事远程工作的专业人员，而且大学教师是一个没有任何家庭办公或远程工作经验的专业人员群体。方法：这项横断面研究随机方便地抽取了 708 名大学教师，对他们进行了在线问卷调查，测量了工作与生活的平衡、感知压力、职业倦怠、工作满意度、一般健康状况、一般恐惧和焦虑以及对人际关系的满意度。结果：研究结果表明，感知压力、职业倦怠、工作满意度、身心健康、心身问题和人际关系质量是参与者工作与生活平衡的前因。结论：大学教师已经适应了工作和生活的平衡：大学教师已经适应了新的工作模式，并成功地保持了适度的工作-生活平衡和职业倦怠。然而，我们的研究结果表明，需要建立一个强有力的综合框架，以考虑工作与生活平衡的多方面、多层次预测因素。我们还概述了未来的研究和人力资源观点。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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3.50

自引率

30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.