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Illegitimate tasks and work role performance among engineering consulting professionals: integrating work–family boundary and cognitive–affective personality system theories
Originally published 2026-08-18 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1924102 ↗
Working-family evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
Relevant to decisions about a workload review that questions unnecessary assignments; the original evidence concerns 615 engineering consulting professionals.
Directly examines work and family life, parenting, caregiving or employment policies for families.
Editorial reading guide · Respect
Do tasks outside a legitimate role erode room for family life?
This reading brings illegitimate tasks, authoritarian leadership and work-life balance appraisals into the respect pathway. The three-wave engineering-professional survey offers a specific workplace lens on how employment and family life meet.
Study context
615 engineering consulting professionals
Age / stage: Working adults; children not directly assessed
Read with three questions
- How did the researchers define and assess unnecessary or unreasonable tasks and balance appraisals?
- What does the study design allow us to conclude about authoritarian leadership and the timing of survey measurements?
- What would need to be checked before adopting a workload review that questions unnecessary assignments?
Keep the limits in view
Balance and engagement were measured in the same wave; theoretically ordered indirect associations are not a definitive temporal or causal sequence.
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Tao Yang (2026). Illegitimate tasks and work role performance among engineering consulting professionals: integrating work–family boundary and cognitive–affective personality system theories Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1924102
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