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Making
childcare work: changing childcare for a better work-life balance
Daycare Trust, March 2003
ISBN: 1-87108-866-2
Short report on state of childcare provision and up-take by working
parents. Outlines policy aspirations for improvement to access and
quality of childcare for working parents. Available to purchase from
Daycare Trust.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: policy makers
Management
Agenda (The)
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
Managing
special leave
London, Work Foundation, The, June 2002
Managing Best Practice Series
Survey includes: policies on special leave, leave for public duties,
medical activities, domestic activities, overseas visits and lengthy
holidays. Also includes policy on family sickness leave, bereavement,
moving house and study leave. Approach to leave for activities concerned
with professional associations.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: employer support
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
Maximising
attendance
London , Work Foundation, The. August 2002
Managing Best Practice Series
Survey includes: Absence rates, main causes of absence, extent of
absence recording, cost of absence. Flexible working practices and
do they reduce absenteeism.
Subjects: absence
Audience: employer support
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New
survey finds computers at home promote better skills, productivity
and work-life balance
Office of the E-Envoy, 19 January 2004
A new survey carried by NOP Research Group for the Office of the e-Envoy
revealed that respondants
thought their work-life balance had improved as a result of having
a computer at home, as they were
able to deal with personal matters outside of office hours.
http://www.e-envoy.gov.uk/MediaCentre/CurrentPressReleaseArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4006275&chk=CVcXBV
Subject: Work-life balance
Type of Document: Employer
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Organisations,
careers and caring
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: policy maker, employer
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Parental leave: a guide for employers and employees
London, Department of Trade and Industry, April 2002
Booklet providing details of employment law on the right to parental
leave, as of 10 January 2002. Chapters cover: the minimum standard
for parental leave; making arrangements in the workplace to support
parental leave; the fallback scheme; protection from detriment and
dismissal; enforcement through employment tribunals; other help and
further information.
Subjects: family friendly
Audience: employer support/self help
Part-timers seek work-life balance
BusinessEurope.com, 14 June 2004.
Survey of 1000 employees of Dominos Pizzas showed 61% believed a
balanced lifestyle was the most important benefit of part-time work,
compared with 45% who said increased income was their major motivation.
A quarter said that working fewer hours had afforded them more time
to spend with their families and enjoy external interests. 29% of
people said that meeting new people was a major factor behind the
move to work part-time, whilst 15% said they aimed to pick up new
skills.
Subject: Flexible working
Type of document: Employer, Policy maker
'Part-time
work in Europe'
European Foundation for the improvement of living and working conditions, 2004.
EU study suggests that part-time workers are less prone to physical and mental
health hazards in working, and have more time to arrange a social life. Accross
the EU the numbers of people working part-time increased from 14.2% in 1992 to
18.1% in 2002, however only 6.6% of men worked part-time compared to 33.5% of
women. The Netherlands topped the table of the part-time workers in 2002 with
21.5% of men and 72.8% of women. In the UK, 9.4% of men and 44% of women worked
part-time in 2002, placing the UK second in the table behind the Netherlands.
http://www.eurofound.eu.int/ewco/reports/ES0403TR01/ES0403TR01.htm
Subject: Flexible working
Type of document: Academic, policy maker
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
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Quality
of Life in the City: A Report on Work-Life Balance in the City of
London
London: Parents at Work 2001
Research into whether maintaining personal work-life balance is an
issue for City workers.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: employer support
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
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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
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
Running
around in circles: coordinating childcare, education and work
London: Policy Press in association with Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Looking at the implications for policy and employers of how parents
co-ordinate the childcare and educational needs of their children
with their own working arrangements.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: policy-maker
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Second
Work-Life Balance Study: Results from the Employers' Survey
National Centre for Social Research
Results from the second survey of employer views and practice on work-life
balance.
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: Employer, policy maker
Second
Work-Life Balance Study: Results from the Employees' Survey
Results from the second survey of employee views on work-life balance.
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: policy maker
Sex
and power: who runs Britain?
Equal Opportunities Commission
Research into gender equality in the public arena
Subject: Diversity
Audience: policy maker, employer
State
of the nation on sex equality: annual report 2002 - 03
London, Equal Opportunities Commission, London, July 2003
ISBN 1 84206 083 X
Equal Opportunities Commission’s (EOC) annual report, which
includes the EOC’s first “state of the nation” report
on sex equality in Great Britain, setting out goals for sex equality
and progress made towards them. Issues addressed include: equal value
of women and men; sharing of caring roles; service provision and EOC
iniatives.
Subject: diversity
Audience: Policy maker
Sticky
Floors & Cement Ceilings: Women in Non-Managerial Roles in the
UK
London: Opportunity Now, 2002
Report looks at barriers to women working at non-managerial levels
in organisations, an often-overlooked pool of talent.
Subject: diversity
Audience: employer support
Stress:
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
Stress: Tackling stress at work:
a trade unionists guide
London, Labour Research Department Publications Ltd
ISBN: 1-90054-476-8
An overview of the reported extent and causes of stress in the workplace.
Provides a legal framework, with reference to specific legislation.
Provides guidance on how to combat stress at work, both the employers'
responsibilities and how the trade union rep can assist. Includes
the TUC stress MOT model.
Subjects: stress
Audience: self help
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