Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life

ISBN-13: 9780521858694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 324 str.

Paula Caligiuri; Steven A. Y. Poelmans

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.