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This thesis deals with the balance between entrepreneurship and personal life. Its goal is to identify factors impacting this balance. Theoretical part tackles the concepts of entrepreneurship, entrepreneur and balance between entrepreneurship and personal life. Methodological part describes research methods, selection of factors, definition of hypotheses, particular components of questionnaire, factors' measurement and data evaluation. Practical part consists of measuring the balance and analyzing the connection between the factors and the balance. Based on a sample of 37 entrepreneurs in service sector, the research results lead to the conclusion that the balance is influenced by self-efficacy, time management and personal relationship.

yes / Individualisation theory misrepresents and romanticises the nature of agency as a primarily discursive and reflexive process where people freely create their personal lives in an open social world divorced from tradition. But empirically we find that people usually make decisions about their personal lives pragmatically, bounded by circumstances and in connection with other people, not only relationally but also institutionally. This pragmatism is often non-reflexive, habitual and routinised, even unconscious. Agents draw on existing traditions - styles of thinking, sanctioned social relationships, institutions, the presumptions of particular social groups and places, lived law and social norms - to ‘patch’ or ‘piece together' responses to changing situations. Often it is institutions that ‘do the thinking’. People try to both conserve social energy and seek social legitimation in this adaption process, a process which can lead to a ‘re-serving' of tradition even as institutional leakage transfers meanings from past to present, and vice versa. But this process of bricolage will always be socially contested and socially uneven. In this way bricolage describes how people actually link structure and agency through their actions, and can provide a framework for empirical research on doing family. / ESRC

Yes / This article explores how people who live apart from their partners in Britain describe and understand ‘family’. It investigates whether, and how far, non-cohabiting partners, friends, ‘blood’ and legal ties are seen as ‘family’, and how practices of care and support, and feelings of closeness are related to these constructions. It suggests that people in LAT relationships creatively draw and re-draw the boundaries of family belonging in ways that involve emotionally subjective understandings of family life, and that also refer to normative constructions of what ‘family’ ought to be, as well as to practical recognitions of lived family ‘realities’. This often involves handling uncertainties about what constitutes ‘family’.

Effectiveness, productivity and motivation of police members are important factors that contribute to a country's stability, economic growth and development. As such, understanding experiences that police members might have with regard to the relationship between their work and personal life is the main focus area in this study. The objectives of this study were to determine how Afrikaans speaking police members experience work-personal life interaction, and secondly, to determine the main dimensions in the lives of Afrikaans speaking police members that is in interaction with each other, and thirdly, to determine the major antecedents and consequences of work-personal life for Afrikaans speaking police members, and fourthly, to determine which strategies Afrikaans speaking police members use to deal with work-personal life issues. Unstructured interviews were conducted with ten males and females in the police stations based in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp areas. Qualitative interviews based on the phenomenological paradigm, were used to determine police officers perception regarding work and personal life interaction. A Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data. Police members reported experiencing their work as stressful, in that it interfered negatively with their lives and also had certain health implications. They further experienced some aspects in their personal lives (e.g., household duties, family responsibilities) interfering with their work. Furthermore, they reported using certain strategies (e.g., communication, support from a spouse) as a way of bettering the interaction between their work and personal lives. Recommendations for future research were made, / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Effectiveness, productivity and motivation of police members are important factors that contribute to a country's stability, economic growth and development. As such, understanding experiences that police members might have with regard to the relationship between their work and personal life is the main focus area in this study. The objectives of this study were to determine how Afrikaans speaking police members experience work-personal life interaction, and secondly, to determine the main dimensions in the lives of Afrikaans speaking police members that is in interaction with each other, and thirdly, to determine the major antecedents and consequences of work-personal life for Afrikaans speaking police members, and fourthly, to determine which strategies Afrikaans speaking police members use to deal with work-personal life issues. Unstructured interviews were conducted with ten males and females in the police stations based in the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp areas. Qualitative interviews based on the phenomenological paradigm, were used to determine police officers perception regarding work and personal life interaction. A Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify and interpret the research data. Police members reported experiencing their work as stressful, in that it interfered negatively with their lives and also had certain health implications. They further experienced some aspects in their personal lives (e.g., household duties, family responsibilities) interfering with their work. Furthermore, they reported using certain strategies (e.g., communication, support from a spouse) as a way of bettering the interaction between their work and personal lives. Recommendations for future research were made, / Thesis (M.A. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

Undersökningen syftar till att skapa kunskap om arbetsschemats betydelse hos Räddningstjänsten. Detta genom att undersöka vilka attityder som finns kring arbetstider samt på vilket sätt arbetsschemat upplevs påverka dels arbetets innehåll, dels balansen mellan arbete och privatliv. Vi vill utifrån syftet undersöka hur stor andel som är nöjda respektive missnöjda med arbetsschemat, samt se vad som gör att det uppfattas som bra respektive mindre bra ur olika aspekter. Slutligen vill vi undersöka om det upplevs finnas bättre lösningar till arbetsschemat, ur en arbetsmässig synvinkel samt för privatlivet.  Vi genomförde en metodkombination av kvantitativ och kvalitativ metod. Tyngden i undersökningen ligger på den kvantitativa delen eftersom det lyfter fram samtliga brandmäns åsikter, medan de kvalitativa delarna har bidragit till en fördjupad bild av upplevelserna kring arbetsschemat. Resultatet visar att många brandmän är missnöjda med dagens arbetsschema och det har framkommit olika förslag på hur det kan bli bättre, till exempel genom att dela upp dagtidspassen under samtliga veckor. En majoritet upplever att arbetsschemat stör privatlivet, men att de positiva aspekterna väger upp de negativa. Till det positiva hör bland annat att brandmännen är lediga mycket på dagtid och därmed hinner utföra många sysslor. Resultatet har analyserats genom SPSS och teorier om gränser, rollkonflikter och resursbevarande modellen. / The study aims to create awareness of the work schedules importance of Emergency Services. This by examine the attitudes that exist around working hours and in which way the work schedule is perceived to affect both the content of work and the balance between work and personal life. Based on the purpose we want to examine the proportion who are satisfied or dissatisfied with the work schedule and see what makes it perceived as good or not good from different aspects. Finally, we want to examine whether it is perceived to be better solutions to the work schedule, from a labor point of view as well as for the personal life. We conducted a method combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The emphasis of the survey is on the quantitative part because it brings out all the firemen's opinions, while the qualitative elements have contributed to a deeper picture of the experiences around the work schedule. The result show that many firefighters are dissatisfied with the current work schedule and have come to different suggestions on how it can be better, for example by splitting the daytime shifts during all weeks. A majority feel that the work schedule interferes with the personal life, but that the positive aspects offsetting the negative. On the positive side, among other things, the firemen are vacant a lot in the daytime and thus have time to do many chores. The results were analyzed by SPSS and theories about boundaries, role conflicts and conservation of resources model.

In an ever-changing world, work and personal life are the main areas in which most employed adults spend their time. Today the essence of the relationship between work- and personal life is that these two domains overlap and interact. Consequently, an increasing number of employed adults are confronted with bigger demands in both their work and personal lives, and many of their daily hassles stem from job responsibilities that are incompatible with responsibilities in their personal lives. Educators' work has also become more intricate and demanding and may be one of the professions in which individuals find it difficult to combine their work and personal lives. The objective of this study was to determine how Setswana-speaking educators experienced their work-personal life interaction (WPLI), and more specifically to determine the significant domains, antecedents, consequences and strategies associated with WPLI for the participants. A non-probability purposive voluntary sample (N = 10) was taken of Setswana-speaking secondary school educators from the Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp areas in the North West Province. Data collection was done through a phenomenological method of semi-structured in-depth interviews. Data was analysed by the use of content analysis The results indicated that educators experienced factors in both their work and personal lives to be demanding. In addition, work demands led to various time constraints and strain. However, factors were identified that made the demands less overwhelming and it was also found that educators valued certain things (family, friends, leisure time, church and personal time) in their personal lives. Educators nevertheless employed certain strategies to cope with this interaction, which in turn led to numerous positive outcomes. Lastly, an interesting finding relating to this study was that educators felt a responsibility towards the children. Recommendations were made for the organisation and for future practice. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

In South Africa, the staff of higher education institutions experiences several stressors in their work and home domains. Therefore, it is important to understand how these two life domains are in interaction with each other. The general objective of this study was to investigate how higher education staff experienced work-personal life interaction (WPLI). A sample of 24 higher education staff that was willing to participate in the study was taken from different faculties and departments from a higher education institution in the Free State Province. For the purpose of this research, a qualitative design from a phenomenological approach was used. The specific objectives of this study were to determine the experiences, main dimensions, antecedents, consequences, and strategies in the lives of higher education staff. The results obtained indicated that Afrikaans and African women and men experienced time and strain-based conflict. Their work environment was characterised by a heavy workload, long working hours, resulting in work being taken home, and their home environment was characterised by a demanding family (spouses and children) and household duties. Men and women also thought about things in the family domain (e.g., when their children were sick) while they were at work. This caused a constant spill over, leaving employees tired and stressed. Strategies (e.g., prioritising, planning and time management) and support (e.g., spouses, division of family and household duties, friends and colleagues, as well as the flexible working hours) helped them to cope with this interaction. Recommendations were made for future research and the organisation. / Thesis (M.Com. (Industrial Psychology))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.