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Should we have more family-friendly policies?

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  • Scheibl, Fiona
  • Dex, Shirley

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This paper considers the extent of flexible working practices often called family-friendly working practices and evidence from published literature to address the question of whether we need more of these arrangements. A review is carried out to see whether problems exist for the workforce which such policies could help to resolve, whether employers perceive problems in offering such arrangements and whether such problems could be overcome. The conclusions are that more family-friendly arrangements would be welcomed by employees, that employers do perceive problems in designing flexible working arrangements but that there are also ways of overcoming many of these problems to work towards new relationships of trust and commitment between workers and employers.

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  • Scheibl, Fiona & Dex, Shirley, 1998. "Should we have more family-friendly policies?," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 16(5), pages 586-599, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:16:y:1998:i:5:p:586-599
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    1. Kerstin Fehre & Hagen Lindstädt & Alexander Picard, 2014. "Förderung von Frauen in Führungspositionen: Bezugsrahmen und empirische Analyse der unternehmerischen Maßnahmen," Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research, Springer, vol. 66(1), pages 37-68, February.
    2. Gutiérrez Vargas, Liliana María & Arenas Cardona, Henry Antonio & López Gómez, María del Socorro, 2020. "La relación entre uso de beneficios y políticas trabajo-vida y satisfacción laboral: el rol mediador del conflicto trabajo-a-familia," Cuadernos de Gestión, Universidad del País Vasco - Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa (IEAE).
    3. Stavrou, Eleni & Spiliotis, Stelios & Charalambous, Chris, 2010. "Flexible working arrangements in context: An empirical investigation through self-organizing maps," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 202(3), pages 893-902, May.
    4. Xuhong Su & Barry Bozeman, 2016. "Family Friendly Policies in STEM Departments: Awareness and Determinants," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 57(8), pages 990-1009, December.
    5. Kassinis, George I. & Stavrou, Eleni T., 2013. "Non-standard work arrangements and national context," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 31(5), pages 464-477.
    6. Bill Francis & Iftekhar Hasan & Liuling Liu & Haizhi Wang, 2019. "Employee Treatment and Contracting with Bank Lenders: An Instrumental Approach for Stakeholder Management," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 158(4), pages 1029-1046, September.
    7. Berkery, Elaine & Morley, Michael J. & Tiernan, Siobhán & Peretz, Hilla, 2020. "From start to finish: Flexi-time as a social exchange and its impact on organizational outcomes," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 38(4), pages 591-601.

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