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We invite submissions that examine the work-family interface in the South Asian context. Our main goal is extending our understanding of how individuals in these societies deal with two important facets of their lives: work and family. We use work-family interface in a very broad manner; it encompasses all constructs focusing on the relationship between work and non-work life including but not limited to work-family conflict, work-life balance, work to family conflict, work-family spillover, work-family enrichment, work-life enrichment, etc.

Proposed papers may deal with but not limited to the following topics:

• How is changing nature of work shaping work-family culture in South Asian countries?

• How do technological innovations such as internet-accessible smartphones affect work norms and behaviors? How do these new norms and behaviors affect the work-family interface?

• What kind of work flexibility exists? Does such flexibility help individuals deal with competing demands of work and non-work life?

• What does work-life enrichment mean in the South Asian context?

• What role does culture play in terms of shared beliefs (e.g., group dynamics, gender ideologies, time orientation, individualism-collectivism) and how do such beliefs influence the work-family interface?

• What social practices are relevant for understanding the work-family interface. How do these practices affect <g class="gr_ gr_55 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep" id="55" data-gr-id="55">work-family</g> interface?

• How does family structure (e.g., nuclear family vs. extended households) affect the work-family interface?

• How does social stratification in the South Asian context shape the work-family interface?

• How do organization level policies (like extended maternity leaves or on-site childcare) help employees to deal with the demands of work and family? How effective are these organizational policies?

• Given the collectivistic context of South Asian societies, how effective are social resources, like emotional and social support, for dealing with work-family conflict?

• How do South Asian supervisors help or hinder their workers? work-family demands?

• What meaning do individuals attribute to work and family? and how the centrality of these facets affect the experience of work-family conflict?

• How do public policies (like family leave, parental leave) shape the work-family interface?

• Do public policies related to family affect organizational policies designed to help employees deal with family demands?

  This call is open to papers using qualitative or quantitative methodologies examining the work-family interface in South Asia. Theoretical papers that further our understanding of work-family issues in the South Asian context <g class="gr_ gr_64 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace" id="64" data-gr-id="64">are</g> also welcome. Please see the attached flyer for more details.