Boundary autonomy and organizational support for Work-Life Balance

工作生活平衡的工人有更大的自由度来自行设计工作和生活领域之间的界面。笔者将这种自由命名为：边界自治。非制度性的支持，如上级和同事的理解和帮助，以及促进工作与生活平衡的组织文化，对工人实现工作与生活平衡也很重要。其中最重要的是上级的管理风格。为了设计工作与生活平衡的组织，除了建立机构外，安排非机构支持是绝对必要的。

Workers spending well-balanced working life have a greater degree of freedom to design the interface between work and life spheres by themselves. The author names this freedom as:boundary autonomy". Non-institutional supports such as the understanding and help from their superiors and colleagues and an organizational culture promoting well-harmonized work-life balance are also important for workers to attain work-life balance. Among the most important is the superior's management style. It is absolutely necessary to arrange non-institutional supports in addition to establish institutions in order to design work-life balanced organization.