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Time for Change
Alexandra Jones (pdf 276kb)
Subject: Work-life balance
Absence
and labour turnover survey 2003
London: Confederation of British Industry
Annual survey of absence and labour turnover in UK plc.
Subject: absence
Audience: employer support
Absence and leave
London, Industrial Relations Services 2002
ISBN: 0-75451-953-8
Analysis of all types of absence and leave. Issues addressed include:
absence and leave and the law; measuring absence; absence policy;
managing attendance; cost of absence; different types of leave - for
example, annual, maternity, parental, study, religious holidays, public
duties, trade union activities and management of leave.
Subject: absence
Audience: employer support
Absence to
Attendance (From)
Alastair Evans & Mike Walters, CIPD, 2002
Helps HR practitioners seeking to put in place effective low-absence
strategies.
Subject: absence
Audience: employer support
Accounting
for People Report
Accounting for People Taskforce
Report into human capital reporting
Subject: Business performance
Audience: Employer, policy maker
Age
equality comes of age
IPPR
'Sex, race and age are useful ways of classifying populations because
they tell us something about what happens on average. But they tell
us little or nothing about an individual. Science and justice demand
that the needs and capabilities of individuals are assessed individually,
without prejudice from their sex, race or age. This book shows us
how science can and should inform justice in public policy.'
http://www.ippr.org/publications/index.php?current=7&book=396
Subject: Diversity
Audience: policy maker
Age neutral application form - http://www.efa.org.uk/category.asp?cid=44&num=
The Employers Forum on Age has produced an application form and guidance notes to eliminate age bias from job applications.
Subject: diversity
Audience: employers, individuals
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
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
Around
the clock: childcare services at atypical times
York, June Statham and Ann Mooney, Joseph Rountree Foundation, July
2003
ISBN 1 86134 502 X
Research report on the changes to the UK’s service-based economy
and the move towards 24-hour operation, which require parents to work
outside traditional 'nine-to-five' hours, Monday to Friday, and the
childcare options open to them. This study by researchers at the Thomas
Coram Research Unit looked at the barriers to developing childcare
services to cover atypical working hours, and explored factors that
may help to facilitate service development.
Subject: family friendly
Audience: Policy maker
Attitudes
to flexible working and family life - Exec Summary
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Attitudes of shop stewards to flexible working hours in the engineering
industry are explored in a new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/d53.asp
Subject: Flexible working
Audience: employer, policy maker
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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
Balancing work and family life: enhancing
choice and support for parents
Norwich, HMSO, January 2003
Outlines the Government's strategy to help parents. Summarises measures
coming into effect in April 2003.
Subjects: family friendly
Audience: employer support/self help
Balancing
work and home in the voluntary sector
Working families. December 2004
This report raises awareness on work-life balance issues within the sector. Review
the current state of the voluntary sector and highlight good practices that have
developed during the project.
Subject: Work life balance, Family friendly
Audience: Employer, indevidual, policy maker
Beating the 24/7: how business leaders achieve a successful
work-life balance
Fletcher, Winston, Chichester, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2002
ISBN: 0-47084-762-X
Collection of profiles from prominent business leaders, where they
discuss their experiences of the "cash rich but time poor"
lifestyle their commitments require of them.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: employer support
Being
positive about age diversity at work: a practical guide for business
London, Department for Work and Pensions, 2002
This publication updates the Code of practice on Age diversity. It
offers employers guidance on how to improve their age policies and
covers recruitment, selection, promotion, training and development,
redundancy and retirement.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: employer support
Benefiting
from a Balanced Life
London: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, 1999
A survey of 2000 people management professionals looking at the range
of benefits to
assist staff in their work/life balance. Available as a free document
on CIPD website, once registered as a guest.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: employer support
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
Book of balanced living: options to take control of your
time, work and life
McCarraher, Lucy, London, Spiro Press, 2002
ISBN: 1-90429-809-5
Chapters include: Evaluating your personal and material needs; finding
the right work; and practical tips relating to stress, childcare and
support. Case studies and exercises to achieve balanced living are
included.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: self help
Breaking
the long hours culture
Brighton: Institute for Employment Studies, 1998
ISBN: 1-85184-281-0
Report discusses the reasons why employees in the United Kingdom work
the longest hours in Europe.
Subject: organisational culture
Audience: employer support
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
Business case, The
London, Department of Trade and Industry, September 2001
This report illustrates how innovative companies have used policies
to reduce absenteeism, boost productivity and reduce long hours.
Subjects: business performance
Audience: employer support
Business
case for diversity and equality
London, Women and Equality Unit, DTI, June 2003
Booklet outlining the business case for diversity at work, which will
be necessary given the demographic changes in the labour market. Focuses
on benefits to the organisation and shareholders. Includes brief case
studies of major UK corporations who have taken action on equality
and diversity.
Subject: Business performance
Audience: employers
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Call centres 2002: reward and work-life strategies
London, Industrial Relations Services, September 2002
ISBN: 0-40696-359-2
Annual survey of call centres. Issues addressed include: pay benchmarking;
incentives schemes; recruitment; retention and work life balance.
Statistics throughout.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: employer support
Caring and counting: the impact
of mothers' employment on family relationships
The Policy Press, July 2003
ISBN: 1-86134-534-8
Research report on "Mothers’ employment is widely perceived
as having far-reaching effects on family relationships. The main work-life
balance policies promoted by the government focus on the amount of
time the mother spends at work. This report challenges this approach.
It suggests that what happens inside the workplace and how this interacts
with family life is just as important."
Subject: diversity
Audience: policy makers
Changing
Times: TUC guide to work life balance
London: TUC
Free fortnightly e-newsletter from the TUC, whose aim is to discuss
changes at work, and how increased flexibility can benefit both employers
and employees. In addition the TUC have produced, in association with
the DTI, a report of the same name, which sets out a process designed
by the TUC to achieve changes in the organisation of working time
that will benefit both employer and employee. It is a practical step-by-step
guide to implementing work-life balance strategies, which enhance
productivity and efficiency.
Subject: flexible working arrangements
Audience: employer support
Changing patterns of work: advisory
booklet
Leicester, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, 2002
Describes various patterns of working time and indicates their advantages
and disadvantages. Covers: flexible working hours (part-time work,
overtime, flexitime, Sunday working); flexible working weeks (job
sharing, compressed working weeks); from shift working to flexible
working year (shift work, annual hours); flexible contracts (temporary
working, sub-contracting, zero hours contracts); flexible places of
work (teleworking); and flexible working lives (career breaks). Appendices
cover planning a shift rota, types of shift system and The Working
Time Regulations 1998. The online version was updated October 2002.
Subjects: flexible working arrangements
Audience: employer support/self help
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
Children before money
Angela Phillips, The Guardian, 30 July 2003. Search the Guardian
website with the above title.
Analysis of unofficial industrial action taken by British Airways
staff, when new working arrangements were imposed. It is proposed
that staff felt these would jeopardise their pre-existing work-life
balance arrangements. Author suggests that this may become a wider
issue as more women, with caring responsibilities, enter the work
force.
Subject: flexible working
Audience: employer
Combining
self-employment and family life
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Research into how self-employment affects the family.
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: Employer, policy maker
Complicated
lives: sophisticated consumers, intricate life styles, simple solutions
Michael Willmott and William Nelson, John Wiley, August 2003
ISBN: 0-470-85701-3
Suggests that life has become a complex range of choices for individuals,
many of which affect the way we feel about the time available for
work and home. This book, drawing on a 3-year project carried out
with the Abbey National, is about such complexity and the challenges
that it presents to companies and organisations seeking to be consumer-led.
Subject: business performance
Audience: employer
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Dads
on dads: needs and expectations at home and at work
Hatton, Warren, London , Equal Opportunities Commission
ISBN: 1-84206-036-8
Research study, undertaken in conjunction with MORI, into fathers'
perceptions and experiences of balancing working life with their family
role and responsibilities.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: self help/ employer support
Delivering
on gender equality
A new initiative to encourage government departments to focus on key
gender priorities has been launched by industry secretary Patricia
Hewitt. Delivering on gender equality sets out the government’s
priorities in areas including childcare, equal pay, flexible working,
public appointments and domestic violence.
Subject: diversity
Audience: policy maker
Demanding Society(The): 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
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
Diversity in the workplace
London, Industrial Relations Services, 2002
ISBN: 0-75451-955-4
Overview of diversity in the workplace. Issues addressed include:
context of the diversity versus equal opportunities debate; the organisational
case for diversity; organisational objectives and strategy; diversity
and the law; case studies and model policies.
Subjects: diversity
Audience: employer support
Dream On - http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/dreamon/
Sleep in the 24/7 society
London, Demos 2004
“On any working day, a quarter of all managers in Britain are likely to be in a bad mood because they have not slept well”. This report exposes how a combination of long hours and high-pressure jobs is affecting people's sleep and creating a cycle of tiredness and stress.
Subject: stress
Audience: employers, academic, individuals
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