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Title Balancing dual roles in self-employed women: An exploratory study.
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2714
Date 2009
Author(s) Uys, J.S.; Mclellan, K.L.
Abstract This study is aimed at exploring how self-employed women cope in balancing their dual roles as mothers and executives. Through the elicitation of constructs by making use of Kelly's repertory grid technique, the personal construct system of five self-employed white women in Gauteng across varying industries was established. While being successful dual earners, they still bore the primary responsibility for nurturing their families and assuring their well-being. The successful balancing of their dual roles was attributed to the following central themes, which emerged from all the participants: quality time spent with children and family, structure and planning, coping with guilt, support structures and self-reliance, and balance between work and life.
Subject(s) Self-employed women; Kelly's repertory grid technique
Language en
Publisher SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
Type of publication Article
Rights Complies with the rights as specified by the publisher: http://www.sajip.co.za/ & Copyright University of Johannesburg
Identifier 35(1), 1-10.
Repository Johannesburg - University of Johannesburg
Added to C-A: 2014-05-16;14:21:27