Women with Families and Experiences of Business Travel
Kähkönen, Saara (2015)
Kähkönen, Saara
Haaga-Helia ammattikorkeakoulu
2015
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060312161
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060312161
Tiivistelmä
The thesis studies how female business travellers with children experience business travel. The objective is to find out new ways and tools to make business trips easier for these travel-lers, make them have a better work-life balance and have a less stressful experience not only during their trips, but also after.
The method used was semi structured interviews. The interview consisted of questions relat-ed to combining business travelling and family. The interviews took place in Spring 2015 and four respondents, aged 34-52, participated in the interviews. The respondents had 2-3 chil-dren. Three of the respondents had been travelling for business for around 10 years, one around 20 years.
The theoretical framework focuses on issues relevant to the topic. Firstly, the role of Finnish women is presented. Secondly. Business travel, its challenges and women‟s aspect on work-ing and business travelling is discussed. Well-being factors, as well as stress and work-life balance are also presented.
The methodology chapter presents the method used, semi-structured interview, as well as discusses the validity and reliability of the interviews and presents the research implementa-tion process.
The interview results indicate that women with families find combining business travelling and family rather challenging. A trustworthy support network is very essential, and it would be desirable to get support from the workplace as well, e.g. free days after the business trip, or child care services provided by the employee.
The method used was semi structured interviews. The interview consisted of questions relat-ed to combining business travelling and family. The interviews took place in Spring 2015 and four respondents, aged 34-52, participated in the interviews. The respondents had 2-3 chil-dren. Three of the respondents had been travelling for business for around 10 years, one around 20 years.
The theoretical framework focuses on issues relevant to the topic. Firstly, the role of Finnish women is presented. Secondly. Business travel, its challenges and women‟s aspect on work-ing and business travelling is discussed. Well-being factors, as well as stress and work-life balance are also presented.
The methodology chapter presents the method used, semi-structured interview, as well as discusses the validity and reliability of the interviews and presents the research implementa-tion process.
The interview results indicate that women with families find combining business travelling and family rather challenging. A trustworthy support network is very essential, and it would be desirable to get support from the workplace as well, e.g. free days after the business trip, or child care services provided by the employee.