Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life
From Policy to Practice
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- Editor: Steven A. Y. Poelmans, IESE Business School, Barcelona
- Author: Paula Caligiuri, Rutgers University, New Jersey
- Date Published: September 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521858694
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Organizations can no longer afford to assume that the ideal employee is male, full-time, and free from responsibilities outside work. As the percentage of women in the active work population rises, and the number of dual-income families grows, there is an ever greater demand for more flexible patterns of employment. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life examines the organizational challenges of introducing work-life policies and practices from both an individual and a managerial perspective. Drawing on a broad range of international case studies of companies where such policies have both succeeded and failed, it acts as a practical guide for policy design and implementation. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life will be essential reading for human resource practitioners, advanced students and academic researchers in the field of human resource management, organizational behavior, or career management.
Read more- Includes a range of international perspectives, with contributors from both industry and academia
- Uses real cases from companies who have implemented new policies and practices
- Offers practical guidance for managers in order to assess existing policies and to assist with change
Reviews & endorsements
'Changing times call for changing paradigms. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life serves as a bridge to the future. Rather than seeing work versus family and personal lives - a concept that has held sway for several decades - this book strives for a both/and approach of 'harmonizing' our lives. And rather than research for researchers versus human resource practice for practitioners, this book unites theory, research, policy, and practice across borders and continents. As such, it offers a wealth of research-tested practical ideas that can benefit employees and employers alike.' Ellen Galinsky, President, Families and Work Institute, New York
See more reviews'Poelmans, Caligiuri, and their contributors offer today's human resource professionals a highly useful guide to perhaps the greatest challenge facing employees in contemporary organizations: integrating professional and personal demands and aspirations. The authors cover a range of important and timely topics including the impact of globalization on employees, facilitating career-life integration, and understanding how to create effective, supportive workplace cultures. Grounded in research but with clear implications for practice, this volume provides excellent insights and guidance for developing effective workforce management strategies.' Professor Brad Harrington, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work and Family
'This inspiring book contains profound knowledge of work-family matters pertinent to business organizations, HR practitioners, researchers, and individual career aspirations. Current and grounded in the importance of understanding today's workforce diversity and economic globalization, it provides a wide range of policy options that can be tailored to fit firm-specific strategic goals. It is truly international, and includes in-depth analysis of multiple real world examples of employers offering culturally appropriate work-family and individual career assistance programs. This will be particularly valuable for multinational organizations as they strive to transfer competence across borders through people.' Professor Nini Yang, College of Business, San Francisco State University
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- Date Published: September 2008
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521858694
- length: 328 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 158 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 7 b/w illus. 27 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Introduction Steven Poelmans
Part I. Describing Different Work-Life Policies/Policy Development/Pitfalls:
1. Strategic HR and work-life balance Paula Caligiuri and Nicole Givelekian
2. Reviewing policies for harmonizing work, family and personal life Steven Poelmans and Barbara Beham
3. Integrating career development and work-family policy Tammy Allen
4. Work-life balance on global assignments Paula Caligiuri and Mila Lazarova
5. IBM case Joan Giue and Oana Petrescu
Part II. Policy Design, Implementation, and Deployment:
6. Stages in the implementation of work-family policies Steven A. Y. Poelmans, Shilpa Patel and Barbara Beham
7. Policy development across borders: a framework for work-life initiatives in multinational enterprises Anne Bardoel and Helen DeCieri
Annex: ACREW Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Checklist of Work/Life Best Practice
Part III. Cultural Change:
8. Barriers to the planning, implementation and usage of work-life policies Cynthia Thompson
9. Proposing a model for cultural change Steven A. Y. Poelmans and Olena Stepanova
Epilogue: Social change Steven A. Y. Poelmans and Aline Masuda
Annex: List of Website references
Index.
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