Happiness
Index - Happiest Workers, 19 March 2004,
City & Guilds
The City and Guilds Happiness Index shows staff in vocational jobs
are more satisfied than white
collar workers and professionals. The top five are made up of Care
Assistants, Hairdressers, plumbers
, chefs and florists, beating lawyers, chartered engineers and other
highly paid fields.
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Subject: Work-life balance
Type of document: policy-maker, employer
Flexible
Working in the IT Industry: Long-hours cultures and work-life balance
at the margins, March 2004,
DTI
http://www.dti.gov.uk/industries/electronics/flexwork-it04.pdf
Subject: Work-life balance
Type of document: Employer
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
Where's
Daddy? The UK Fathering Deficit
Alexandra Jones and Stephen Bevan (pdf 170kb)
Subject: Work-life balance
About
Time for Change
Alexandra Jones (pdf 276kb)
Subject: Work-life balance
Combining
self-employment and family life
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Research into how self-employment affects the family.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/663.asp
- Executive summary
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: Employer, policy maker
Organisations,
careers and caring
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/n33.asp
- Executive summary
Subject: Work-life balance
Audience: policy maker, employer
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
The
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
The
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
Work-life
balance trainer’s manual: 15 ready-made development activities
for trainers
Margaret Adams, Gower, October 2003
ISBN 0566085453
A manual, with CD ROM, of work-life balance activities for HR managers
and trainers. Includes a variety of resources such as case studies,
discussions, games and questionnaires.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employer
Time well spent
Radhika Holmstrom, People
Management 28 August 2003, pp. 24 - 25
Work-life balance is often difficult to achieve, but can be even more
challenging for those working in HR, with it’s requirement for
full-time cover and potential for the unexpected. This article explores
experiences of women working in HR and how they cope with these demands.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
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
Work-life
balance
Managing Best Practice Series, The Work Foundation, August 2003
ISSN: 1355-1515
Survey and case study report, addressing attitudes, policies, measures,
handling request, refusals, take-up, and organisational benefits.
Case studies included are from award winning UK organisations.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
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
Investors
in people guide to helping organisations manage work-life balance
Investors in People UK, 2003
ISBN: 0-11706-108-5
Short guide to a work-life balance model, and how to implement this
in an organisation. Discusses aspects of the model: principles; indicators;
culture; strategy; action and effectiveness. Includes glossary and
useful contacts.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
Work-Life
Balance: A Guide for Organisations
Roffey Park, 2003
“This practical guide shows how to create a culture conducive
to work-life balance; how HR practitioners can underpin and support
this culture; how line managers can influence it whilst addressing
their own work-life balance and how individual employees can take
control of their working and personal lives.” Available to purchase
from Roffey Park.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
Work-life Balance Supplement
Employee
Benefits August 2003
15-page supplement in Employee Benefits journal. Includes an update
on work-life balance with book reviews, IT solutions and research.
Full articles include: new legislation changes compelling employers
to re-think their policies; maternity pay; sabbaticals and concierge
services.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: employers
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
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
The ‘work-life balance’
revisited: Institute of Directors employment comment
London: Institute of Directors (Policy paper)
Accuses campaigners for a better balance between work and home life
of distorting the truth and being “hell-bent of demonising the
workplace”.
Subject: work-life balance
Audience: policy-maker
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
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
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
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
Getting
it Right: Improving Work-Life Balance in Your Business
Produced by the Federation of Small Businesses in association with
the NSPCC & BCC
to raise awareness and promote the benefits of the flexible working
legislation in SMEs.
Subject: work life balance
Audience: employer support
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
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
Work-life balance: beyond the rhetoric
Kodz, J, Brighton, Institute for Employment Studies, 2002
ISBN: 1-85184-313-2
Report covering: work-life balance options offered by employees; take-up
and benefits of these options; and obstacles and difficulties. Finds
that take-up of flexible working options is low and that both managers
and individuals need to be supported to overcome difficulties and
barriers.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: employer support
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
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
Turn it off: how to unplug
from the anytime-anywhere office without disconnecting your career
Gordon, Gil, London, Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd, 2001
ISBN: 1-85788-300-4
Mobile office technology means that "wired workers" can
conduct business outside office hours and from any location, leading
to work invading personal time. This practical book provides advice
on regaining control and obtaining a sense of balance. It includes
tips for managing email, time and setting limits on the virtual office.
The 100/60/0 model for balancing time and work is discussed.
Subjects: work life balance
Audience: self help
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