Categories of Resources

Abstract

This chapter will provide an account of the categories of resources noted in participants’ critical incidents of work-family enrichment. Consistent with Greenhaus and Powell’s (2006) conceptual framework, there are five key categories of resources derived from occupying work and family roles (i.e., resources accrued in Role A, work or family): Skills and perspectives; Psychological resources; Material resources; Social Capital, and Flexibility. The subcategories related to the population examined in this study will be presented in table format below, each described in turn thereafter. To avoid redundancy, this chapter will simply present the categories of resources that emerged from the critical incidents mentioned by participants. The reader will note that the impact of the transfer of these categories of resources will be discussed in Chapter Seven, when performance improvements are presented; Chapter Seven will provide the grounding references for these resources in the form of quotations.