過去20年間，女性勞動力的快速增加使得職業女性如何去尋求工作生活平衡成為政府及企業都感興趣的議題，且世代經歷的經濟及產業環境變遷可能造成對於工作生活平衡價值觀的不同，本文以質性研究的方式探究生活在台北都會地區的女性，在工作生活平衡的價值觀上的跨世代異同比較，提供具有本土意義的跨世代女性工作生活平衡價值觀比較，對照不同世代女性對於工作生活平衡價值觀的異同以及影響因子。本文以三次焦點團體訪談（嬰兒潮世代、X世代、Y世代）蒐集資料，運用紮根理論分析之後顯示，不同的世代間由於生命階段以及成長背景、社會情境而形塑出屬於各世代不同的世代特性，對於工作生活平衡價值觀有所影響。因而在不同世代間確實有不同的工作生活平衡價值觀，且影響工作生活平衡的因子也有所不同。女性工作價值觀上，嬰兒潮世代女性看重工作職責、界線清楚；X世代女性的工作價值觀則希望擁有成就感、責任感、獨立、自由；Y世代的工作價值觀則有：自己的時間的重要性、工作為生活，三個世代女性的影響因子主要差異是由於生命階段的不同，婚姻及子女所帶來的影響因素最為強烈。政府及企業再制訂工作生活平衡政策時，可依據不同世代的需求及生命階段，訂定更能促進女性工作平衡之工作生活平衡政策。

Due to the female labor force in Taiwan rapidly increasing in pass 20 years, the issue work-life balance of working female in metropolitans is important for both enterprises and governments in Asian modern economics. Moreover, whereas the dramatical change in economic and working environment the females born and raised in different generations have various backgrounds and experience. This study aims at providing the comparison of which working female in metropolitan balance their work-life value in Taipei. I organised three focus group interviews (baby-boomer, X-generation, and Y-generation) in order to collect the data regarding different life-stages. I analyzed the data by the analyzing techniques in grounded theory. The study figures out, the value of work-life balance in baby-boomers is about job duty and the clear of the boundary between family and workplace, the sense of achievement and responsibility, independence and degree of freedom in life are highlighted in X-generation, and , ‘time of myself’ and ‘working for life’ are important for Y-generation. Besides, ‘marriage’ and ‘children’ are critical interventions for the female in different generations. The enterprise and government can learn from the results that women in different generations and life-stages have different needs of work-life balance policies.

目錄
學位論文審定書 ................................................................................................................................................... I
誌謝..................................................................................................................................................................... II
摘要 .................................................................................................................................................................... III
ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................................................... IV
目錄 ..................................................................................................................................................................... V
表次................................................................................................................................................................... VII
圖次.................................................................................................................................................................. VIII
第一章 緒論..................................................................................................................................................... 1
第一節 研究背景與動機 .................................................................................................................................... 1
第二節 研究範圍與對象.................................................................................................................................... 5
第二章 文獻探討 ............................................................................................................................................. 6
第一節 工作生活平衡........................................................................................................................................ 6
第二節 全職工作女性與工作生活平衡 .......................................................................................................... 10
第三節 世代間的工作生活平衡...................................................................................................................... 12
第四節 世代的劃分.......................................................................................................................................... 13
第五節 世代特性.............................................................................................................................................. 15
第三章 研究方法 ............................................................................................................................................17
第一節 抽樣及資料蒐集方式 .......................................................................................................................... 18
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第二節 分析方式.............................................................................................................................................. 21
第四章 研究結果分析.....................................................................................................................................24
第一節 嬰兒潮世代（ 1945~1964） ................................................................................................................ 25
第二節 X 世代（ 1965~1974） .................................................................................................................... 64
第三節 Y 世代（ 1976~1989） ................................................................................................................... 94
第四節 研究結果彙整.................................................................................................................................... 122
第五章 結論與建議 ......................................................................................................................................132
第一節 研究結論與管理實務........................................................................................................................ 132
第二節 研究限制與未來研究建議................................................................................................................ 137
參考文獻 ..........................................................................................................................................................140
附錄一 焦點團體訪談大綱 ..............................................................................................................................144
附錄二 焦點團體訪談邀請函 ..........................................................................................................................145

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