Sample Research Questions
- To what extent has the individual understanding and management of Life Balance changed in recent years?
- What role do information and communication technologies play in the successful, individual management of Life Balance and availability?
- How do individual situations and the emotions they trigger contribute to a basic feeling of (in)balance in Life Balance and how do they affect well-being and stress levels?
- How do extreme forms of boredom (referred to as boreout) of service employees affect the treatment with customers?
- How does mobile work in the COVID-19 affect the emergence and the outcomes of knowledge workers’ boreout?
- How do digital readiness and digital resilience affect employee boreout?
Sample Publications
- Schneider, Katharina/Reinke, Kathrin/Gerlach, Gisela/Anderson, Christoph/Wojtek, Sebastian/Neitzel, Svenja/Dwarakanath, Rahul/Boehnstedt, Doreen/Stock, Ruth (2017), Aligning ICT-enabled Availability and Individual Availability Preferences: Design and Evaluation of Availability Management Applications, International Conference on Information Systems 2017, Seoul, South Korea.
- Stock, Ruth Maria/Strecker, Marina Melanie/Bieling, Gisela (2016), Organizational Work–Family Support as Universal Remedy? A Cross-CulturalComparison of China, India and the United States, International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM), 27, 11, 1192-1216.
- Reinke, Kathrin/Gerlach, Gisela/Tarafdar, Monideepa/Stock, Ruth M. (2016), ICT-Based Communication Events as Triggers of Stress: A Mixed Methods Study, International Conference on Information Systems 2016, Dublin, Ireland.
- Stock/Ruth (2016), Understanding the Relationship between Frontline Employee Boreout and Customer Orientation, Journal of Business Research (JBR), 69, 10, 4259-4268.
- Stock, Ruth (2015), Is Boreout a Threat to Frontline Employees’ Innovative Work Behavior?, Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM), 32, 4, 574-592.
- Stock, Ruth/Bauer, Eva-Maria/Bieling, Gisela (2014), How Do Top Executives Handle Their Work and Family Life? A Taxonomy of Top Executives’ Work–Family Balance, International Journal of Human Resource Management (IJHRM), 25, 13, 1815-1840.
- Stock, Ruth/Bauer, Eva-Maria (2011), Typology and Performance Outcomes of Executives' Relationship with Work: Evidence from Executive and Life Partner Data, Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), 63, 3, 252-286.
- Stock-Homburg, Ruth (2010), Work-Life Balance Coaching im Topmanagement, in: Stock-Homburg, Ruth/Wolff, Birgitta (Hrsg.), Handbuch Strategisches Personalmanagement, 1. Auflage, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, 539-564.
- Homburg, Christian/Stock, Ruth (2001), Burnout von Mitarbeitern im Dienstleistungsbereich: Ansatzpunkte zur Vermeidung durch persönliches Ressourcen-Management, in: Bruhn, Manfred/Stauss, Bernd (Hrsg.), Jahrbuch Dienstleistungsmanagement 2001, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, 479-500.
This research area is financially supported by a number of projects:
- Manager Stress (2009-2013; DFG Research Grants)
- SANDRA (2017-2020; BMBF project, together with Fraunhofer IAO, University of Kassel, Goethe University Frankfurt, among others)
- Work-Life-Balance of female managers (Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, 2009)
- Always Online? A new communication paradigm for the communication society (LOEWE, 2014 – 2017)
- Life balance, stress and boreout (leap in time Stiftung)