ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what the decision-making process entails when an employee such as Lisa makes a work-family decision on her own. There are times when it is the employee rather than the family unit who should make a particular work-family decision. The chapter considers the cognitive processes that employees follow in making work-family decisions in the work domain. It examines rational processes by which an employee makes a work-family decision in the work domain. Work-family decisions in the work domain are triggered by the need to make a decision regarding entry into a work role, participation in a work role, or exit from a work role. Change blindness is also relevant to the use of scripts in work-family decision-making. Employees who follow the logic of consequences tend to be either maximizers or satisficers.
