Shared Identity Worklife Roles and Career Priority A study of Dual Career Couples

Abstract

Globalization and liberalization are the two main catalysts for the increasing number of dual-career couples in the global workforce. Maintaining work-life balance is a serious challenge for this type of families, which makes it interesting to understand how they cope with it. It is useful to study chemistry between couples to know the pattern of their decision making, their perception for work-life roles, and the effects it has on their respective organizations as both husbands and wives are crucial members of the workforce. newlineA review of the literature shows that various comparative studies were conducted for dual-career couples, dual-earner couples, and single-earner couples. Various concepts, such as role, career, work-life conflict, work-life balance, social support, crossover effect, spillover effects have been studied across the literature. Based on the literature review, a concept matrix was developed for this study. Research gap identified based on this concept matrix was, no study was conducted (in Indian or global context) for the presence of the Shared Identity construct among couples. Based on this gap, three objectives were developed for this study. newline