Reflections
on the Integration of Paid Work with the rest of life
Suzan Lewis, Rhona Rapoport and Richenda Gambles
Paper looking at why societies seem stuck about how to make equitable,
satisfactory and sustainable changes in the ways in which paid work
can be combined with the rest of life. It examines why work-personal
life integration issues have become so pressing and reflects on implications
for working towards more fundamental changes.
www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/wfnetwork/loppr/reflections.pdf
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: academic
Work
and family life in the 21st century
Shirley Dex, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, September 2003
ISBN 1 85935 095 X
“An overview of a research programme examining the relationship
between work and family life, drawing together the findings from 19
individual research projects to provide a comprehensive overview of
the state of this relationship at the beginning of the twenty-first
century, addressing issues such as childcare, caring for older relatives,
employment and self-employment, flexible working, working unsociable
hours and the ability to move with a job.”
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: academic
High Performance management practices, working
hours and work-life balance
M White, S Hill, C Mills and D Smeaton, British
Journal of Industrial Relations, June 2003, vol. 41,
no. 2, pp.175 - 195
The effects of selected high performance practices and working hours
on work-life balance are analysed with data from national surveys
of British employees in 1992 and 2000.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: academic
Working
Mums: what impact on children’s early years development
Paul Gregg and Liz Washbrook, The Leverhulme Centre for Market and
Public Organisation, Bristol University, Issue 9, August 2003, pp1
- 4
Overview of research into working mothers and their children’s
cognitive development, based on birth cohorts from the early 1990s.
Provides link to full academic research report.
Subject: diversity
Audience: academic
Childcare
for working parents: fifth report of session 2002-3
Norwich, TSO, July 2003
ISBN: 0215011481
Report and minutes from the House of Commons Work and Pensions select
committee on working parents and childcare. Issues addressed include:
Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) vision of childcare; provision
of childcare; funding of childcare providers; children’s centres;
childcare tax credit; informal care funding; tax incentives for employers
and the childcare workforce.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: academic
Understanding
the People and Performance
London: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, 2002 www.cipd.org.uk
Three-year investigation into the impact of people management practices
on business performance, by looking inside “the black box”.
Comprises of 12 organisational case studies.
Subject: business performance
Audience: academic
Family
Business
London: Demos, 2000
ISBN: 1841800058
Contributions from an international range of individuals and that
discusses the emerging work-life agenda, assessment of recent policy
initiatives and offers practical solutions for the future.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: academic
Family-friendly working? Putting policy into practice
York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2002
Research into 17 companies in financial services sector in Scotland
and then compared policy with practice in four case-study companies.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: employer support /academic
The
Demanding Society: Managing Work in 2010
London: Ceridian Centrefile, 2002
Survey looks at the employer and employee's point of view and investigates
what changes are required to shape the future work of work.
Subject: organisational culture
Audience: employer support /academic
The
Management Agenda
Horsham: Roffey Park Management Institute
Annual overview of managers' opinions on employment issues and the
challenges that they face at work. Research findings divided into
five main themes; organisational change; organisational life; organisational
culture; the employee deal and working across boundaries, such as
e-business. Statistics cited throughout.
Subject: business performance
Audience: academic
Married
to the Job?
London: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, June 2001
Survey explores the impact of working long hours on relationships
with family, friends and work colleagues. Available as a free document
on CIPD website, once registered as a guest.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: academic
Taking
the Strain
London: Institute of Management/PPP healthcare, 2000
ISBN: 0-85946-313-3
Looks at workplace issues that contribute to managerial stress levels
and has found that stress levels reported seven years ago and considered
unsustainable at that time have not improved.
Subject: stress
Audience: employer support /academic
Burnt
Out or Burning Bright? The Effect of Stress in the Workplace
London: The Mental Health Foundation, 2001
ISBN: 1 903645 10 7
Research into the effects of stress in the workplace compiled following
discussions with directors, senior executives and human resource managers
at companies including Credit Suisse First Boston, Volvo Car UK Limited
and Pearson plc and is supplemented by a review of current literature
on stress at work.
Subject: stress
Audience: employer support/academic
Research
on Work-Related Stress
Luxembourg: European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, 2002
ISBN: 9282892557
Comprehensive report on work-related stress in the EU.
Subject: stress
Audience: academic
Work-Life
Balance: Careers and The Psychological Contract
Horsham: Roffey Park Management Institute, 2000
This research suggests that work-life balance is an issue that appears
to be exerting a
growing influence on employee career decisions.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: academic
Work-Life
Balance: The Role of the Manager
Horsham: Roffey Park Management Institute, 2002
Regardless of whether formal policies are in place, it is the attitudes,
skills and behaviours of line managers, which ultimately determine
the success of flexible working arrangements.
Subject work life balance
Audience: academic
Perspectives
on the Study of Work-Life Balance
A Discussion Paper Prepared for the 2001 ENOP Symposium, Paris, March
29-31 by Professor David Guest of The Management Centre, King’s
College, London.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: academic
Balanced
Lives: Changing work patterns for men New Ways to Work
London: New Ways to Work
Draws on the views and experiences of over 100 men who are working
reduced and flexible hours, taking career breaks and working from
home. Includes 17 case studies.
Subject: flexible working arrangements
Audience: academic
Impact
of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications for
UK productivity, The
Walby, Sylvia Professor , London Department of Trade and Industry
Research report produced by the Women and Equality Unit for the DTI
on the impact of women's position in the labour market, on their pay
and the implications for productivity. Includes analysis of: the concept
and measurement of productivity; gender pay gap; occupational mobility
surrounding childbirth; training and learning. Includes statistics
throughout.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Full and fulfilling employment: creating the
labour market of the future
London, Department of Trade and Industry, April 2002
This paper "analyses the UK labour market and sets out the Government's
vision of its future direction and the policies being delivered to
help achieve this." It explains the three principles that underlie
government policies for the labour market of the future: full employment,
diversity and choice, and raising productivity. Government interventions
involve: delivering macroeconomic stability; promoting work for those
who can and providing security for those who can't; making work pay;
investing in childcare; promoting skills and lifelong learning; minimum
employment standards; providing information; and promoting high performance
workplaces.
Subjects: business performance
Audience: academic
Quality
of women's work and employment: tools for change
Dublin , European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working
Conditions, December 2002
ISBN: 9-28970-206-0
Report on how EU member states have been improving the participation
rates of women in the labour market. However, this report attempts
to move beyond mere numbers to address the issue of the quality of
work, and outcomes, for women. The Foundation proposes some tools
and strategies to improve the quality of women's working lives
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Annual
report on equal opportunities for women and men in the European Union
2002
Luxembourg, Commission of the European Communities, 2002
Report from the EU on equal opportunities in 2002. Addresses issues
such as: progress on gender equality legislation and case law; equal
pay; harassment; women's participation in decision making and adoption
of gender legislation in member countries.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Blurring the home/work boundary: profiling
employers who allow working from home
Felstead, Alan, Leicester, Centre for Labour Market Studies, April
2001
ISSN: 1469-1531
This paper examines how many workplaces offer non-managerial staff
the option to work at home. In so doing, it identifies the characteristics
of workplaces where working at home is permitted. The paper also tests
12 hypotheses, which emerged from a review of the family-friendly
and working at home literature.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: academic
Desperately seeking flexibility: is job share
the answer?
Savage, Carol, Knell, John, Janman, Karen Dr, London, Industrial Society,
2001
ISBN: 1-85835-980-5
This study explores the characteristics of flexible working and job
sharing among senior managers in the UK. A joint study between The
Industrial Society, The Resource Connection and SHL
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: academic
Flexible futures: flexible working and work-life
integration: summary findings from stage two of the research
Cooper, Cary L Professor, London, Centre for Business Performance,
ICAEW, October 2001
Second stage of research commissioned by Centre for Business Performance,
at Institute of Charted Accountants, in England and Wales, into flexible
working and the accountancy profession. This part of the research
was a more in-depth study into issues, which arose from the first
stage. The report can be accessed as an electronic PDF document from
Centre of Business Performance at ICAEW.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: academic
Are you happy at work? : job satisfaction and
work-life balance in the US and Europe
Oswald, Andrew Place: Warwick
Finds that job satisfaction is U-shaped over the life cycle. Examines
the characteristics associated with high levels of job satisfaction.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: academic
How to tackle psychological issues and reduce
work-related stress
Luxembourg; Office for Official Publications of the European Communities,
2002
ISBN: 9-29191-009-0
Report on the psychological working environment and occupational stress.
Includes: examples of legislation and regulation in Europe; improvements
in the psychological work environment - stress and risk management,
health circles, absence management; reduction of stress; prevention
of violence at work and prevention of bullying. Each area is supported
by case studies from European wide organisations.
Subjects: stress
Audience: academic
True flexibility at work: attitudes towards
the 24/7 culture
Holton, Viki, Berkhamstead, Ashridge Management College, February
2002
ISBN: 0-90354-245-5
Report of research carried out into attitudes to flexible working
of 250 senior managers in the UK. General findings were that flexible
working is expected to become more prevalent and these attitudes appear
to be informed by their own experiences of balancing work and home
responsibilities.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: academic
Gender,
jobs and working conditions in the European Union
Fagan, Colette , Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of
Living and Working Conditions, 2002
Research paper based on findings from the 3rd European survey on working
conditions, this report assesses the gendered nature of working conditions.
Analysis includes: gender segregation in paid and unpaid work; job
content and workplace environment; working time and impact of working
conditions on health and work life balance.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: academic
Telework - the new industrial revolution? : Home and work in the 21st
century
London, Trades Union Congress, August 2001
This report looks at the reality of teleworking - working from home
with the aid of a computer. It examines how telework might fit in
with a progressive employment strategy to increase flexibility and
individual choice and improve the work-life balance. The report looks
at trends in teleworking, who actually teleworks, compares the UK
picture with teleworking and home working across Europe and the United
States, and discusses what the prospects are for telework in the future.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: academic
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