Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research A Vision for the Future

by Poelmans, Steven; Greenhaus, Jeffrey; Las Heras Maestro, Mireia

• ISBN13: 9781137005991
• ISBN10: 1137005998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With contributions from thirty authors from fifteen countries, this is a "white book" for international work-family research and practice. The authors offer a bold look at the future and provide guidelines for future research, focusing on applied, international work-family research.

Author Biography

STEVEN POELMANS is Principal Investigator, at EADA Business School, SpainJEFFREY H. GREENHAUS is Professor of Management and William A. Mackie Chair in the Department of Management, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, USAMIREIA LAS HERAS MAESTRO is Assistant Professor in Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School, Spain

Table of Contents

List of Tables
List of Figures
PREFACE
Nuria Chinchilla (IESE Business School)
PREFACE
Lotte Bailyn (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
INTRODUCTION
Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus & Mireia Las Heras
PART I: WORK-LIFE POLICIES AND FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONS
Work-Family Policies: Linking National Contexts, Organizational Practice and People for Multi-level Change.
Ellen Ernst Kossek  & Ariane Ollier-Malaterre
Do Work-Family Policies Really 'Work'? Evidence from Indian Call Centres
Sweta Rajan-Rankin & Mark Tomlinson
PART II: WORK-LIFE CULTURE AND PRACTICES IN ORGANIZATIONS
Deconstructing 'Family' 'Supportive' 'Cultures': A Vision for the Future
Susan Lewis & Sweta Rajan-Rankin
Organisational Subcultures and Family Supportive Culture in a Spanish Organization.
Olena Stepanova
PART III: Personal and professional careers and talent management
Work-Family Research and Practice: What if the Whole Person Mattered?
Elana Feldman & Douglas T. Hall
Effects of Gender and Family on Earnings and Career Paths: A Cross-Cultural Study of
Europe, the United States and Japan
Nini Yang
PART IV: Decision-making in a work-life context
The Present and Future of Work-Family Decision-Making
Steven Poelmans, Jeffrey Greenhaus &
Olena Stepanova
Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family-Work Interface.
Gary Powell  & Jeffrey Greenhaus
PART V: Coping and strategies for harmonizing work and life
New Directions in Work-Family Coping Research
Debra A. Major, Heather M. Lauzun & Meghan P. Jones
Fairly Flexible: Preventing Perceptions of Unfairness in Enactment of Workplace
Flexibility
Špela Trefalt
PART VI: Work-life facilitation and enrichment
Issues in the Development of Research on Interrole Enrichment
Eva Demerouti, Inés Martinez Corts & Marina Boz
The Impact of Coworkers on Work-to-Family Enrichment and Organizational
Outcomes
Karen Korabik & Melissa Warner
PART VII: SPECIAL SECTION
Times are Changing: Gender and Generation at Work and at Home in the United States.
Ellen Galinsky, Kerstin Aumann, James T. Bond
Work-Family Interface on International Assignments: A Model of Expatriate Work and
Family Performance.
Mila Lazarova , Mina Westman &
Margaret Shaffer
CONCLUSION
Some Future Directions for Work-Family Research in a Global World
Tammy Allen