ABSTRACT
Integration of work and nonwork demands is one of the most critical challenges organizations, families, and individuals face today. Research on the integration of work and family-and work and personal life more generally-is burgeoning and crossing many disciplines. The extant psychological and management literatures, however, largely adopt an individual, psychological perspective that emanates out of role theory (Katz & Kahn, 1978), focusing particularly on perceived conflicts between work and family roles. While perspectives on role conflict are valuable and some of the contributors to this volume draw on that rich tradition, we developed this book to address a number of persistent gaps in the work-family field, with its voice focused on work and organizations.
