ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the changing composition of the workforce, increasingly demanding jobs that are flexible in the timing and location of work, and feelings of job insecurity in an uncertain work environment require employees to make frequent career decisions that can affect their family life. It illustrates the value of adopting a work-home perspective by examining how such a perspective might inform four active research areas within the career literature – career self-management, career success, global careers, and sustainable careers – and suggested an agenda for future research in each of these areas. A work-home perspective on mentoring would seek to understand the factors that encourage a mentor to adopt a work-family lens and the process by which the adoption of this lens affects protégés’ success at work and at home. Although the work-home interface has been firmly entrenched in the organizational behavior literature, it has not been systematically applied to the study of critical career phenomena.
