Understanding the Role of Theory in Research

By Wednesday: Select one of the sources that you have found in your preparation for the assignment due in Unit 5. The article should propose a theory that could be used as the framework for a study on work-life balance and online learning.

Briefly summarize the article and describe why you believe the theory is useful for developing a theoretical framework that could be used for research on work-life balance and online learning. Link to the article you used for this discussion.

Response Guidelines

By Friday: Reply to at least two fellow learners with a question about their posts that would clarify their selection.

By Sunday: Reply to each learner whose contribution you plan to use in your Unit 5 assignment. Indicate what you learned from them and state that you intend to acknowledge it in the credit section of your assignment.

( USE: UNIT 3 ( 2 , Unit 3 1 , unit 3 , 3 , unit 3 – 4 ) 

Student 1 

One of the articles chosen to write about the Unit 5 essay is called Meaningful Work on career satisfaction: a moderated mediation model of job embeddedness and work-based social support. This article by Gardener, J., Stuart, M., et al. Gardener, J., Stuart, M., et al. explained that the work of meaningfulness includes purpose, reasons, and processes influencing satisfaction to have careers. Purpose, motives, and operations develop careers of job embeddedness to create a satisfactory career opportunity from mechanism mediation. 

The Design methodology approach examined by the accountants in Thailand created the perception of a direct relationship between meaningful work and career satisfaction as comparatively arbitrated by job awareness (p.889 – 904). This design methodology approach states that communication and connections with each employee establish the significant or professional job experience and satisfying performance to develop fractional placement workers are aware of. The employees use what they can to work to implement a good relationship with each other to improve their professional experience and performance at work (Gardener, J., Stuart, M., et al., 2021, p. 889 – 904). As Gardener, J., Stuart, M., et al. (2021) stated, the viewpoints of supervisor and co-worker support had medium improvements affecting important work and job placement. Gardener, J., Stuart, M., et al. (2021) recognize profound implications for researchers and practitioners by highlighting an integrative model of organizational factors in managing human resources. When researching, there are continuing attempts to extend relevant knowledge in meaningful work and job embeddedness to identify mechanisms that amplify the structural relationship (p. 889 – 904).

I believe that the theory is helpful when developing a theoretical framework used for research on work-life balance because of the relationship between commitment to important job role tasks and improving career satisfaction through performance on the job. This commitment involves obeying new rules and regulations, performing acceptable tasks and activities at work, and communicating and cooperating with supervisors and co-workers for the best improvement in professional services and better pay.

Student 2 

Theresa Alfanza evaluated the impact of telecommuting on job performance and work life balance during COVID-19 by surveying 396 BPO company employees in the Philippines via stratified random sampling, Pearson correlation T-test and confirmatory factor analysis. The aim of this study was to determine whether a relationship between telecommuting intensity and employees job performance and work life balance exists, determine whether there was a negligible difference in employee productivity while in office versus working remotely while also testing the validity of previous frameworks related to job performance and work life balance.

The framework that this article evaluated were heuristic conceptual framework of individual work performance developed by Linda Koopmans in 2015 which focuses more on an individual’s behaviors and actions opposed to the results of those behaviors and actions and along with the quantity and quality of work completed as well as their skills and knowledge of the job when it comes to task performance. This framework is useful as it provides a clear definition of key terms relevant to the study of work life balance as well as it changes the perspective on how work performance and work life balance should be viewed.

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Seminal Works: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations

By Wednesday: Select one of the foundational or seminal sources that you have found in your preparation for the assignment due in Unit 5 on your literature search on work-life balance and online learning. Briefly summarize the article and describe why you believe the source is foundational or seminal for the literature about work-life balance and online learning. Link to the article you used for this discussion.

Response Guidelines

By Friday: Reply to at least two fellow learners with a question about their posts that would clarify their selection.