Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life: From Policy to Practice

by Edited by Steven A. Y. Poelmans , Paula Caligiuri

• ISBN13: 9780521858694
• ISBN10: 0521858690
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. x
List of contributors	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Describing different work-life policies, policy development, and pitfalls	p. 17
Strategic human resources and work-life balance	p. 19
Reviewing policies for harmonizing work, family, and personal life	p. 39
Integrating career development and work-family policy	p. 78
Work-life balance on global assignments	p. 94
Case study 2005 - work-life, flexibility, and mobility: ensuring global support of flexibility within IBM's on-demand company	p. 116
Policy design, implementation, and deployment	p. 131
Stages in the implementation of work-life policies	p. 133
Policy deployment across borders: a framework for work-life initiatives in multinational enterprises	p. 166
Cultural change	p. 207
Barriers to the implementation and usage of work-life policies	p. 209
How to become a family-responsible firm: proposing a model for cultural change	p. 235
Epilogue: flexibility and diversity in the twenty-first century - the responsibility of human potential managers	p. 278
List of website references	p. 291
Index of subjects	p. 293
Index of authors	p. 304
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