Linking Unlearning with Work-Life Balance: An Initial Empirical Investigation into SMEs
研究了中小企业如何通过建立忘却环境来强化工作生活平衡文化，从而提升创新成果，基于229家西班牙金属企业的实证数据。
The use of work–life balance (WLB) supporting cultures to provide and support the welfare of \nboth the individuals and their families is expected to improve organizational outcomes by \nenabling company members to improve levels of job satisfaction and commitment to work. \nHowever, creating or introducing another culture in the company frequently generates internal \nproblems when it conflicts with the current culture in terms of the beliefs, habits, and things \nmanagers take for granted. In this paper, we develop a framework for modeling how the unsuitable \nknowledge may be mitigated in order to strengthen a WLB culture. It is based on the idea that the \npresence of an unlearning context that fosters the updating of knowledge is likely to be essential \nfor small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that are trying to implement a WLB culture. The \nresearch model and hypothesized relationships are empirically tested using the structural equation \nmodeling approach, validated by factor analysis of 229 SMEs in the Spanish metal industry. Our \nfindings show that in order to strengthen a WLB culture and thus positively influence innovationrelated \noutcomes, SMEs meet the challenge of developing an unlearning context to counteract the \nnegative effects of the outdated knowledge in relevant areas and to facilitate the replacement of \nout-of-date or obsolete knowledge.