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‘I Have a Newborn at Home’: Multi-actor Attributions and the Implementation of Shared Parental Leave

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  • Sara Chaudhry

    (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK)

  • Ishbel McWha-Hermann

    (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK)

  • Sophie Flemig

    (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK)

  • Arleta Blackley-Wiertelak

    (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK)

Abstract

This article studies the organizational implementation of public policy, specifically shared parental leave (SPL) legislation (2015), through the lens of attribution theory (that is, actors’ inferences for why policies are implemented by their employing organization), drawing on 26 in-depth interviews with a range of actors in a British university. Our findings highlight that attributions vary between different organizational actors despite SPL being an externally-mandated, unavoidable policy. Our key contributions are to study attributions associated with under-considered external policy, highlight the unintended intra-organizational variations in these attributions, and explore how the co-existence of varying actor attributions impacts policy implementation.

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  • Sara Chaudhry & Ishbel McWha-Hermann & Sophie Flemig & Arleta Blackley-Wiertelak, 2021. "‘I Have a Newborn at Home’: Multi-actor Attributions and the Implementation of Shared Parental Leave," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 35(6), pages 995-1013, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:woemps:v:35:y:2021:i:6:p:995-1013
    DOI: 10.1177/0950017020962006
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