Research On Work Life Balance Among High Status Employees In Chinese Organizations

This dissertation investigates work-life conflicts encountered by high status Chineseworkers. The term status is far and wide examined in the organizational literature, and arecent interest in the topic confirms to its possibility as a field of study. This paper provides areview of existing studies on status in organizations, focusing mainly on high statusemployees.Holding a high status brings a lot of benefits, however, expectations which are put on thembring their balance between work and personal life into a conflict. The field of work-lifebalance, although new, spans a wide range of academic fields. The study shows that Chineseorganizational high status holders tend to accept work–life conflicts...