Work Families And Organisations In Transition

Author : Lewis, Suzan,Brannen, Julia,Ann Nilsen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847422209

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Work, Families and Organisations in Transition by Lewis, Suzan,Brannen, Julia,Ann Nilsen Pdf

Across Europe the importance of reconciling paid work and family life is increasingly recognised by a range of diverse government regulations and organisational initiatives. At the same time, employing organisations and the nature of work are undergoing massive and rapid changes, in the context of global competition, efficiency drives, as well as social and economic transformations in emerging economies. Work, families and organisations in transition illustrates how workplace practices and policies impact on employees' experiences of work-life balance in contemporary shifting contexts. Based upon cross-national case studies of public and private sector workplaces carried out in Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, this innovative book demonstrates the challenges that parents face as they seek to negotiate work and family boundaries. The case studies demonstrate that employed parents' needs and experiences depend on many layers of context - global, European, national, workplace and family. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of organisational psychology, sociology, management and business studies, human resource management, social policy, as well as employers, managers, trade unions and policy makers.

Author : Lewis, Suzan,Brannen, Julia,Ann Nilsen
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847422200

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Work, Families and Organisations in Transition by Lewis, Suzan,Brannen, Julia,Ann Nilsen Pdf

Across Europe the importance of reconciling paid work and family life is increasingly recognised by a range of diverse government regulations and organisational initiatives. At the same time, employing organisations and the nature of work are undergoing massive and rapid changes, in the context of global competition, efficiency drives, as well as social and economic transformations in emerging economies. Work, families and organisations in transition illustrates how workplace practices and policies impact on employees' experiences of work-life balance in contemporary shifting contexts. Based upon cross-national case studies of public and private sector workplaces carried out in Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, this innovative book demonstrates the challenges that parents face as they seek to negotiate work and family boundaries. The case studies demonstrate that employed parents' needs and experiences depend on many layers of context - global, European, national, workplace and family. This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of organisational psychology, sociology, management and business studies, human resource management, social policy, as well as employers, managers, trade unions and policy makers.

Author : Ann Nilsen,Julia Brannen,Suzan Lewis
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847428639

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Transitions to parenthood in Europe by Ann Nilsen,Julia Brannen,Suzan Lewis Pdf

This collaborative study provides a subtle and multi-layered understanding of the transition to parenthood within a cross-national comparative framework.

Author : Brigitte Liebig,Mechtild Oechsle
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783847408499

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Fathers in Work Organizations by Brigitte Liebig,Mechtild Oechsle Pdf

This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they assert a claim for active fatherhood, and with what kind of barriers are they confronted? Secondly, capabilities of fathers are addressed: Which is their possible scope of action, who are relevant actors, what is the effect of policies and programs on change and organizational learning with respect to fatherhood?

Author : Barbara Hobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199681136

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Worklife Balance by Barbara Hobson Pdf

This volume seeks to address the rising expectations of working parents in advanced Western welfare states for work-life balance and quality of life, and the tensions that ensue from these expectations within individual lives, households, work organizations, and policy frameworks.

Author : J. Brannen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137379672

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Fathers and Sons by J. Brannen Pdf

This book explores how masculinities and fatherhood are transmitted across family generations of white British, Irish and Polish fathers. Providing unique insights into men's lives, migration, employment, father-son relationships and intergenerational transmission, it offers a rich methodological story of how intergenerational research is done.

Author : S. Poelmans,J. Greenhaus,M. Las Heras Maestro,Mireia Las Heras Maestro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137006004

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Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research by S. Poelmans,J. Greenhaus,M. Las Heras Maestro,Mireia Las Heras Maestro Pdf

With contributions from thirty authors from fifteen countries, this is a 'white book' for international work-family research and practice. The authors offer a bold look at the future and provide guidelines for future research, focusing on applied, international work-family research.

Author : Peter Gossage
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773518479

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Families in Transition by Peter Gossage Pdf

Using a family-reconstruction method, Gossage (history, U. de Sherbrooke) explores how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the Quebec town's French-speaking, Catholic families. He draws on local registers and manuscript census schedules to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in the context of the social and economic change. Among his findings are a growing divergence between bourgeois and proletarian families in regard to marriage and fertility patterns. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Annamaria Di Fabio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030867096

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Cross-cultural Perspectives on Well-Being and Sustainability in Organizations by Annamaria Di Fabio Pdf

This book explores a new area of psychology of sustainability and sustainable development with specific focus on organizations, and introduces a range of advanced perspectives for healthy business, harmonization and decent work. Split into two parts, the first half presents cross-cultural contributions that study in depth the benefits and drawbacks of sustainability, while the second half discusses theoretical approaches and empirical research that offer new prospects for innovation in prevention science. Gathering research from leading scholars and researchers from around the globe, this book offers an essential reference guide that will benefit researchers, professionals, students, and policy makers interested in promoting better business harmony and sustainability.

Author : Sheldon Zedeck
Publisher : Pfeiffer
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000099270

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Work, Families, and Organizations by Sheldon Zedeck Pdf

The fifth book in the Frontiers of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Series, sponsored by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association. Examine the role of industrial and organizational psychology in the study of work-family dynamics. Twelve chapters embrace individual, family, organizational and societal levels of analysis and theory.

Author : R. Crompton,S. Lewis,C. Lyonette
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230800830

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Women, Men, Work and Family in Europe by R. Crompton,S. Lewis,C. Lyonette Pdf

Social changes including an increase in dual-earner families, declining fertility, and growing problems of work-life 'balance' are underway as more women, particularly mothers, enter and remain in paid employment. The authors explore this in a number of European countries (Britain, France, The Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Portugal).

Author : Maria Karanika-Murray,Cary Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000038842

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Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents by Maria Karanika-Murray,Cary Cooper Pdf

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents’ return-to-work experience, the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this reality, give voice to new parents, and offer relief in the knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and, most importantly, how we can start to address them. The book brings together a number of internationally recognized experts from research, practice, and policy to explore the issues and offer evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to cover topics such as equality, stereotypes, work-family conflict, training and development, and workplace culture, among others, whilst integrating research and policy, and illustrating learnings with case studies from parents and examples from countries that lead the way. It will appeal to parents, researchers, and employers in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately, it will help develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully while maintaining their work-family well-being.

Author : Louis B. Barnes,Colleen Kaftan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:49015001335380

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Organizational Transitions for Individuals, Families, and Work Groups by Louis B. Barnes,Colleen Kaftan Pdf

Author : Ingrid Schoon,Rainer K. Silbereisen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521490689

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Transitions from School to Work by Ingrid Schoon,Rainer K. Silbereisen Pdf

This volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature on the transition from school to work. It provides a unique perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a comparative, cross-national understanding of school-to-work transitions in a changing social context. The articles assembled in this volume compare and assess variations in school-to-work transitions across Europe and North America, providing empirical evidence on how young people negotiate the different options and opportunities available and assessing the costs and returns associated with different transition strategies. Unlike many other volumes on this subject - which are pitched at either the macro or micro level - this volume attempts to integrate both perspectives, capturing the complexity of this critical life course transition. Furthermore, the authors address policies aimed at improving the capacity of individuals to make effective transitions and at enabling societies to better coordinate educational and occupational institutions.

Author : Josiane Fahed-Sreih
Publisher : Springer
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319628523

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Conflict in Family Businesses by Josiane Fahed-Sreih Pdf

This book presents methods for dealing with conflict in family firms. The first part of the book defines conflict in general and then in the context of family businesses. It then identifies several approaches to dealing with conflict. As the author makes clear, conflict can negatively impact the performance of a family firm while unresolved conflict often results in unsuccessful transition to the next generation. Therefore, she presents a model that looks at the causes of conflict and ways of resolving it. The second part of the book presents case studies of conflicts in family business, examining such companies as Gucci and L'Oreal and applying the theory. This book will serves as a foundational text in managing disputes in family enterprises.