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Book Family supportive Employer Policies and Men

Download or read book Family supportive Employer Policies and Men written by Joseph H. Pleck and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family supportive Employer Policies

Download or read book Family supportive Employer Policies written by Joseph H. Pleck and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Work and Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1991-02-01
  • ISBN : 0309042771
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Work and Family written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number of dual-earner and single-adult families. This volume reviews accompanying changes in work and family structures and their effects on worker productivity and employer practices. It presents a wide range of approaches to easing the conflicts between work and family, exploring appropriate roles for business, labor, and government. Work and Family offers up-to-date information, looking at how the family and the workplace arrived at their current relationship and evaluating the quality and the cost of care for dependents in this nation. The volume describes the advantages and disadvantages of being part of a working family and takes a critical look at the range of benefits provided, including existing and proposed employer programs for families. It also presents a comparative review of family-related benefits in other countries.

Book Families That Work

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet C. Gornick
  • Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
  • Release : 2003-08-28
  • ISBN : 1610442512
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book Families That Work written by Janet C. Gornick and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents around the world grapple with the common challenge of balancing work and child care. Despite common problems, the industrialized nations have developed dramatically different social and labor market policies—policies that vary widely in the level of support they provide for parents and the extent to which they encourage an equal division of labor between parents as they balance work and care. In Families That Work, Janet Gornick and Marcia Meyers take a close look at the work-family policies in the United States and abroad and call for a new and expanded role for the U.S. government in order to bring this country up to the standards taken for granted in many other Western nations. In many countries in Europe and in Canada, family leave policies grant parents paid time off to care for their young children, and labor market regulations go a long way toward ensuring that work does not overwhelm family obligations. In addition, early childhood education and care programs guarantee access to high-quality care for their children. In most of these countries, policies encourage gender equality by strengthening mothers' ties to employment and encouraging fathers to spend more time caregiving at home. In sharp contrast, Gornick and Meyers show how in the United States—an economy with high labor force participation among both fathers and mothers—parents are left to craft private solutions to the society-wide dilemma of "who will care for the children?" Parents—overwhelmingly mothers—must loosen their ties to the workplace to care for their children; workers are forced to negotiate with their employers, often unsuccessfully, for family leave and reduced work schedules; and parents must purchase care of dubious quality, at high prices, from consumer markets. By leaving child care solutions up to hard-pressed working parents, these private solutions exact a high price in terms of gender inequality in the workplace and at home, family stress and economic insecurity, and—not least—child well-being. Gornick and Meyers show that it is possible–based on the experiences of other countries—to enhance child well-being and to increase gender equality by promoting more extensive and egalitarian family leave, work-time, and child care policies. Families That Work demonstrates convincingly that the United States has much to learn from policies in Europe and in Canada, and that the often-repeated claim that the United States is simply "too different" to draw lessons from other countries is based largely on misperceptions about policies in other countries and about the possibility of policy expansion in the United States.

Book Effective Employer Policies for Family Leave

Download or read book Effective Employer Policies for Family Leave written by William M. Mercer, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1993* with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Workplace Culture and the Reconciliation of Family and Working Life

Download or read book Workplace Culture and the Reconciliation of Family and Working Life written by Lis Højgaard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Work  Family  Health  and Well Being

Download or read book Work Family Health and Well Being written by Suzanne M. Bianchi and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers how today's families cope with the competing demands of work and home life and how these demands directly and indirectly affect their health and well-being. Thirty-three contributions address such topics as employer policies to support work and families; the effects of marriage, divorce, and widowhood on women's health; and the child-care needs of low-income parents. The papers were originally presented at a 2003 conference held in Washington, D.C. under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health.

Book Whose Business is Child Care

Download or read book Whose Business is Child Care written by Amy Jo Svirsky and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Expanding the Boundaries of Work Family Research

Download or read book Expanding the Boundaries of Work Family Research written by S. Poelmans and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy written by Rense Nieuwenhuis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This engaging collection gathers theoretical and empirical insights from leading family policy experts. The authors - representing diverse countries, disciplines, and methods - bring to life the volume's innovative conceptual framework, which is organized around policy institutions, both public and private. The volume closes with a call for new lines of research that should inform family policy scholars for years to come."--Janet Gornick, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, and Director of the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA "Featuring exciting contributors from a range of often-siloed scholarly disciplines, countries and cultures, this Handbook offers nuanced insights into how interacting societal inequality factors influence family policy enactment to reinforce or improve inequality outcomes across gender, class, and nations. It is ambitious, broad-reaching, and succeeds in providing a strategic view within and across nations to inspire thoughtful evidence-based policy implications to improve societies in the future."--Ellen Ernst Kossek, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, Purdue University, USA This open access handbook provides a multilevel view on family policies, combining insights on family policy outcomes at different levels of policymaking: supra-national organizations, national states, sub-national or regional levels, and finally smaller organizations and employers. At each of these levels, a multidisciplinary group of expert scholars assess policies and their implementation, such as child income support, childcare services, parental leave, and leave to provide care to frail and elderly family members. The chapters evaluate their impact in improving children's development and equal opportunities, promoting gender equality, regulating fertility, productivity and economic inequality, and take an intersectional perspective related to gender, class, and family diversity. The editors conclude by presenting a new research agenda based on five major challenges pertaining to the levels of policy implementation (in particular globalization and decentralization), austerity and marketization, inequality, changing family relations, and welfare states adapting to women's empowered roles

Book The Parent s Guide to Family Friendly Work

Download or read book The Parent s Guide to Family Friendly Work written by Lori K. Long and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-01-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parent's Guide to Family-Friendly Work will assist you in finding a job that allows a balance between work and family. It will help you overcome the barriers you might face in your job search, understand flexible work options and benefits, and learn strategies to find and negotiate an arrangement that works for you and your family. Written by a human resource management professional, this book provides advice with a clear understanding of the limitations and legal concerns of most employers. You'll also find creative ideas on work you can do on your own.

Book Workplace Culture and the Reconciliation of Family and Working Life

Download or read book Workplace Culture and the Reconciliation of Family and Working Life written by Lis Højgaard and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Work and Family Work

Download or read book Making Work and Family Work written by Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to identifying the smart choices that all parties involved—society, employers, employees and families—should make to promote greater work–life balance. Leading scholars Jeffrey Greenhaus and Gary Powell begin by identifying the factors that work against an employee’s ability to be effective and satisfied in their work and family roles. From there, they examine a variety of factors that impact the decision-making process that employees and their families can use to enhance employees’ feelings of work-family balance and families’ well-being. Covering a comprehensive set of topics and perspectives, this fascinating book will appeal to upper-level students of human resource management, organizational behavior, industrial/organizational psychology, sociology, and economics, as well as to thoughtful and engaged professionals.