Harmonizing work, family, and personal life : from policy to practice /
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 patter...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Describing different work-life policies, policy development, and pitfalls
- Strategic human resources and work-life balance / Paula Caligiuri, Nicole Givelekian
- Reviewing policies for harmonizing work, family and personal life / Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Barbara Beham
- Integrating career development and work-family policy / Tammy D. Allen
- Work-life balance on global assignments / Paula Caligiuri, Mila Lazarova
- Case study 2005 : work-life, flexibility, and mobility : ensuring global support of flexibility within IBM's on-demand company / Joan Gentilesco-Giue, Oana Petrescu
- Part II. Policy design, implementation, and deployment
- Stages in the implementation of work-life policies / Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Shilpa Patel, Barbara Beham
- Policy development across borders : a framework for work-life initiatives in multinational enterprises / Anne Bardoel, Helen De Cieri
- Part III. Cultural change
- Barriers to the implementation and usage of work-life policies / Cynthia A. Thompson
- How to become a family-responsible firm : proposing a model for cultural change / Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Olena Stepanova
- Epilogue : flexibility and diversity in the twenty-first century : the responsibility of human potential managers / Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Aline D. Masuda.