A
Title: About
Time for Change
Author: Jones, Alexandra
Date: June 2003
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Research commissioned for the re-launch
of the Employers for Work-Life Balance website to investigate whether
people are feeling a ‘time squeeze’ and how they are managing
their work-life balance. Discusses how effective the ‘business
case’ for work-life balance is.
Subject: hours of work; flexible working
Material Type: Report
Audience: employers; policymakers
Title: About time: flexible working
Corporate Authors: Work and Parents Task Force
Date: 2001
Subject: work life balance; flexible working hours
Material Type: Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Advancing
women in the workplace: case studies
Authors: Miller, Linda and Neathey, Fiona
Date: 2004
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk
Abstract: Case study research in the UK, Ireland and
Denmark, which examines actions taken by employers to help women advance
in the workplace. I nvestigates the types of approach
that selected public and private sector employers had taken to address
the barriers that impede the progress of women in the workplace, the ways
in which such initiatives had been implemented within organizations, and
the outcomes of these actions.
Subject: gender; women; employment; public sector; private
sector
Material Type: Working Paper; Case studies
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Advancing
women in the workplace: statistical analysis
Authors: Thewlis, Michael; Miller, Linda and
Neathey, Fiona
Date: 2004
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk
Abstract: R eview current employment statistics across
Europe and in the three study countries using a combination of Eurostat
and European Labour Force Survey (ELFS) data, as well as data from other
sources, such as national education statistics.
Subject: gender; women; employment; public sector; private
sector; statistics
Material Type: Working Paper
Audience: academics
Title: Age equality comes of age
Authors: Spencer, Sarah and Fredman, Sandra
Date: July 2003
Website: http://www.ippr.org.uk/
Abstract: This book questions, amongst other things,
whether the 1970s litigation model of discrimination legislation the Government
proposes will deliver the vast change needed in culture and practice.
Subject: work life balance; flexible working hours
Material Type: Book
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Age as an equality issue:
legal and policy perspectives
Authors: O‘Cinneide, Colm et. al.
Date: 2003
Abstract: Examination of the nature of the ageing process
and an analysis of the concept of age equality focusing on employment, education
and health. Additional chapters include discrimination against children and
the ageing process in the US and other European countries.
Subject: older worker; discrimination; equality; demographics
Material Type: Book
Audience: academics
Title: Age equality duty: the time
has come, An
Authors: Harrop, Andrew; Saltmarshe, Ella
Date: 2004
Abstract: Looks into the government introduction of duties
requiring public bodies to promote gender and disability equality. Discusses
issues covering ageism and employment.
Subject: older worker; equality; discrimination; public sector;
disability
Material Type: Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Around
the clock: childcare services at atypical times
Authors: Statham, June and Mooney, Ann
Date: July 2003
Web Site: http://www.jrf.org.uk
Abstract: 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. Looks at the barriers
to developing childcare services to cover atypical working hours,
and explore factors that may help to facilitate service development.
Subject: childcare; hours of work; flexible working hours; work
life balance; family friendly
Material Type: Report
Audience: academics; policy makers
Top
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Title: Benefiting from a balanced
Life
Corporate Authors: Chartered Institute
of Personnel Development
Date: 1999
Web Site: http://www.cipd.co.uk/default.cipd
Abstract: 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; flexible benefits
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: British lone parent cohort
and their children 1991 to 2001, The
Authors: Marsh, Alan and Vegeris, Sandra
Date: 2004
Website: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/
Abstract: This r eport shows a rise in the number
of lone parents in employment since 1991, from 29% of the sample
of 940 parents, to 56% in 2001. It is indicative that 2/3 of the
lone parent families followed by the researchers over the ten year
period of the study had done well.
Subject: work-life balance; flexible working
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academic; policy-maker
Title: Burnt out or burning bright?
The effect of stress in the workplace
Corporate Authors: Mental Health Foundation, The
Date: 2001
Web Site: www.mentalhealth.org.uk/
Abstract: 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; working conditions; hours of work; management
Material Type: Research paper
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Changing
demographics
Authors: Williams, Laura and Jones, Alexandra
Date: 2005
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Report examining how changing demographics
are impacting upon the labour market, upon the way people wish to work,
and upon organisations seeking to manage people’s expectations.
Subject: population; hours of work; flexible working
Material Type: Report
Audience: employers; academics;
policymakers
Title: Changing times: work and leisure
in post- industrial society
Author: Gershuny, Jonathan
Date: 2000
Abstract: Is there a 'speed-up' of daily life? Have the best-off
members of developed societies lost their leisure? Have women won their jobs
but kept their housework? This book seeks to answer these and similar questions,
putting together, for the first time, evidence of changing time-use patterns
drawn from forty large-scale surveys, from twenty countries in Western Europe,
North America, and Australia, covering the last third of the twentieth century.
Subject: flexible working; hours of work; work life balance
Material Type: Book
Audience: academics
Title: Childcare
for working parents: fifth report of session 2002-3
Date: July 2003
Web Site: http://www.tso.co.uk/bookshop/bookstore.asp?FO=1160005
Abstract: 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; childcare; incentive schemes; tax;
Government policy
Material Type: Report
Audience: academic
Top
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Title: Demanding Society: managing
Work in 2010, The
Corporate Authors: Ceridian Centrefile
Date: 2002
Web Site: www.centrefile.co.uk
Abstract: 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; employment; work life balance
Material Type: Survey
Audience: employer support; academic
Title: Desperately seeking
flexibility: is job share the answer?
Authors: Savage, Carol; Knell, John and Dr Janman, Karen
Date: 2001
Web Site: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: 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; hours of work; job share; management
Material Type: Research
Audience: academic
Title: Domestics:
UK domestic workers and their reluctant employers
Author: Jones, Alexandra
Date: June 2004
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Report examining the extent to
which individuals ‘outsource’ housework and looking
at which types of household tend to do this. The report also
examines how employment relationships tend to operate within
the household.
Subject: unskilled workers; domestic sector; flexible
working; hours of work; work-life balance
Material Type: Report
Audience: academics; policymakers
Title: Dream On: sleep in the 24/7
society
Authors: Leadbeater,
Charles
Date: 2004
Web Site: http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogue/dreamon/
Abstract: 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; hours of work; working time; working conditions
Material Type: Report
Audience: employers; academic; individuals
Article Title: Dual-earner parents with disabled
children: family patterns for working and caring. In: Journal
of family issues
Authors: Lewis, S., Kagan, C. and Heaton, P.
Date: vol.21, no.8, 2000, pp.1031-1060
Subject: hours of work; working time; working conditions;
childcare; carers
Material Type: Journal Article
Audience: employers; academic; individual
Top
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Title: Employee commitment
as an outcome of family-friendly policies? an analysis of the workplace
employee relations survey
Authors: Dex, S. and Smith, C
Date: 2001
Web Site: http://www.jims.cam.ac.uk/
Abstract: This paper uses
data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) to
model the determinants of the extent of employee’s commitment
to their employer.
Subject: employee relations; family friendly policies
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: employer; policy maker; academics
Title: Evaluation of the Work-Life
Balance Challenge Fund (Employment Relations Research Series No.
32
Authors: A. Nelson et al.
Date: 2004
Web Site: DTI.
Abstract: The DTI’s Work-Life Balance Challenge Fund helps
employers develop work-life balance policies and practices. This evaluation by
the Tavistock Institute found that the Fund did enable employers to introduce
successful work-life balance schemes, and looks at factors, which helped employers
to implement work-life balance policies and practices successfully.
Subject: family friendly; flexible working; organisational
culture; work-life balance
Material Type: Research
Audience: employer; academics; individuals;
policy maker
Top
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Title: Family business
Author: Wilkinson, Helen
Date: 2000
Website: http://www.demos.co.uk/catalogueinfo/default.aspx
Abstract: 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; work life balance
Material Type: Book
Audience: academics
Title: Family-friendly working,
what a performance: an analysis of the relationship between the
availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance
Author: Gray, H.
Date: 2001
Abstract: This paper uses the Management and Employee
Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey
(WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which
offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of
workplaces without such practices. The research found that in almost
all cases where there is a significant relationship between the use
of a family-friendly practice and workplace performance, this relationship
is positive.
Subject: family friendly; work life balance
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Flexible futures: flexible
working and work-life integration: summary findings from stage
two of the research
Author: Cooper, Professor Cary L
Date: 2001
Abstract: 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.
Subject: family friendly; work life balance; financial
sector
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academic
Title: Flexible
working and paternity leave: the full rate for fatherhood
Corporate Author: CIPD
Date: 2005
Abstract: Based on research by MORI, this report examines the
attitudes of employees to paternity leave and flexible working. It also shows
a growing acceptance of flexible working by employers. Contents include: proportion
of employees who have access to flexible working practices and the extent to
which requests to employers are granted; attitudes to the length of statutory
paternity leave and statutory paternity pay; organisational, social and cultural
factors influencing whether or not paternity leave is taken.
Subject: flexible working; family friendly; paternity leave
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer; academic;
individuals; policy-makers
Title: Free
to choose: tackling gender barriers to better jobs - Great
Britain summary report - EOC's investigation into workplace segregation
of women and men
Corporate Author: Equal Opportunities Commission.
Great Britain
Date: 2005
Abstract : This is the EOC Investigation into
the segregation of men and women in training and work (known as
occupational segregation), according to its statutory powers under
section 57 (1) of the Sex Discrimination Act. These allow the Commission
to make recommendations for changes to policies and procedures
or even to the law. The investigation has concentrated on five
sectors: construction, engineering, plumbing, information and communications
technology (ICT), and childcare.
Subject: gender; equal opportunities; hours of work;
engineering industries; occupational segregation; legislation
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer, policy maker,
individuals, academics
Title: Free
to choose: tackling gender barriers to better jobs - England
final report - EOC's investigation into workplace segregation
and apprenticeships
Corporate Author: Equal Opportunities Commission.
Great Britain
Date: 2005
Abstract: This is the EOC Investigation into the
segregation of men and women in training and work (known as occupational
segregation), according to its statutory powers under section 57
(1) of the Sex Discrimination Act. The investigation has concentrated
on four of the sectors: construction, engineering, plumbing, and
information and communications technology (ICT).
Subject: gender; equal opportunities; hours of work;
engineering industries; occupational segregation; legislation
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer, policy maker,
individuals, academics
Title: Full
and fulfilling employment: creating the labour market of the
future
Corporate Author: Department of Trade and Industry
. Great Britain
Date: 2002
Abstract: 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.
Subject: labour market; Government policy; diversity;
productivity; business performance
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Gender
and benefits
Author: Bennett, Fran
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk
Abstract: This report examines social security
benefits/tax credits in the UK and discusses ways in which they may
reinforce inequalities between women and men. It argues for a more
explicit focus on gender when considering the benefits/tax credits
system .
Subject: gender; social benefits; benefits; employment;
pay
Material Type: Working Paper
Audience : employer; academics
Title: Gender,
jobs and working conditions in the European Union
Author: Fagan, Colette
Date: 2002
Website: http://www.eurofound.eu.int
Abstract: 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.
Subject: labour market; diversity; occupational
segregation; gender; work life balance
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Hard Labour: the sociology of parenthood
and career
Author: Gatrell, C
Date: 2004
Website: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335214886.html
Abstract: This book examines changes in family
practices and paid work in the 21st century. Focusing on highly qualified
mothers who combine childcare with employment. It also takes into
account the views of fathers, making it a rounded study of family
practice in the new millennium. Subject: family
friendly; flexible working; organisational culture; work-life balance
Material Type: Book
Audience: employers; academics;
individuals; policy-makers
Title: High Performance management
practices, working hours and work-life balance. In: British Journal
of Industrial Relations
Authors: White, M et. al.
Date: 2003, vol. 41, no. 2, pp.175 – 19
Abstract: 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; hours of work; performance;
flexible working
Material Type: Article
Audience: academics
Title: How to tackle psychological
issues and reduce work-related stress
Corporate Author: Office for Official Publications
of the European Communities
Date: 2002
Website: http://www.eurofound.eu.int
Abstract: 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.
Subject: stress; stress management; work-life balance;
case studies
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: ICM
Surveys and focus groups: summary
Corporate Author: Equal Opportunities Commission.
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk/
Abstract: This is a report of the main findings
of the ICM research (Commissioned by EOC) that surveyed over 200
people between 5 –9 January 2005, to ask their views on childcare,
maternity & paternity leave, flexible working & attitudes
to part-time workers, carers and pensions
Subject: flexible working; paternity leave;
parental leave; childcare, work-life balance
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: employers, academic,
individuals, policy-makers
Title: Impact
of women's position in the labour market on pay and implications
for UK productivity, The
Author: Walby, Professor Sylvia
Date: 2002
Website: http://www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk/
Abstract: 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.
Subject: labour market; pay; productivity measurement;
statistics; diversity; women
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Jobs
for the boys and the girls: promoting a smart, successful and equal
Scotland
Authors: Thomson, Emily et. al.
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk
Abstract: The segregation of women and men into
different types of employment has a damaging effect on the economy
by failing to make the most efficient use of the potential workforce
and holding back increased productivity.
Subject: gender; occupational segregation; employment;
Scotland
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employers; academics;
individuals
Top
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Title: Key issues in women’s work
Author: Hakim, Cathrine
Date: 2004
Abstract: This research asserts that the Swedish experience
of family friendly policies is not as it seems. Although there is a
well-developed system of family friendly initiatives, the glass ceiling
is higher than in the US with women comprising only 1.5% of senior
management as compared to 11% in the US. The author believes that raising
children and having a career are fundamentally incompatible.
Subject: family friendly; work life balance; women;
glass ceiling
Material Type: Book
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Management Agenda, The
Author: Roffey Park Management Institute
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.roffeypark.com/index.html
Abstract: Now in its eighth year, this report
- examines the challenges that managers and organisations are facing.
Developed from a survey of over 600 UK managers, this year's report
covers trends relating to organisational change, organisational life,
organisational culture, the 'employee deal' and working across boundaries.
Subject: organisational change; work life balance;
employee relations
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Title: Managing
Best Practice: survey and Report on Work-life Balance
Author: The Work Foundation
Date: August 2003
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Digest of research on work-life balance,
including legal issues, best practice case studies and management documents.
Subject: flexible working; hours of work; work-life
balance; case studies; surveys
Material Type: Report
Audience: employers; academics;
policy-maker
Title: Managing special leave. Managing
Best Practice Series
Corporate Author: The Work Foundation
Date: 2002
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: 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
Subject: flexible working; work life balance; holidays;
special leave; sick leave; hours of work
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academics; employer; employer
support
Title: Marks & Start:
Opening the door to employment?
Authors: Jones, Alexandra; Nathan, Max and Westwood,
Andy
Date: January 2004
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Evaluation against their objectives
of two precursors to the company’s Marks & Start Corporate
Social Responsibiltiy programme: Ready for Work (aimed at homeless
people) and the Young Unemployed Programme. The report also puts
the projects in the context of the UK’s persistent labour market
challenges and draws out lessons and recommendations for Marks & Start,
government policymakers and other employers.
Subject: unemployment; labour market;
Material Type: Report
Audience: employers; policymakers;
academics
Title: Married
to the Job?
Corporate Author: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Date: 2001
Website: http://www.cipd.co.uk/
Abstract: 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: flexible working; work life balance; hours
of work
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academics; employer;
employer support
Top
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Title: Part-time
is no crime: so why the penalty?
Corporate Author: Equal Opportunities Commission.
Great Britain
Date: 2005
Abstract: This is the Interim report of the EOC’s
investigation into flexible and part-time working, and questions for
consultation. It focuses upon part-time working and sets out the results
of new research commissioned by the EOC and makes some proposals for
tackling these issues. The final report of this investigation, to be
published this summer, will look at flexible working in a broader context.
Subject: flexible working; work life balance;
part-time employment; employment law
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer; academics;
individuals
Title: Part-time
pay penalty
Authors: Manning, Alan and Petrongolo, Barbara
Date: [2004?]
Website: www.womenandequalityunit.gov.uk
Abstract: The study findings show that British
women working part-time earn an average 22 per cent less than
those working full-time because of the lack of high-quality part-time
jobs available. The part-time pay penalty suggests that some
women are forced to make a shift to jobs paid at a lower rate
to work part-time, and as a result cannot make the most of their
skills and experience. Subject: flexible working; pay; equal pay; part
time employment
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer;
policy maker; academics
Title: Part-time
work in Europe
Corporate Author: European Foundation for the
improvement of living and working conditions
Date: 2004.
Website: http://www.eurofound.eu.int
Abstract: 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. Across 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.
Subject: flexible working; part-time employment;
hours of work; work life balance
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academics; policy maker
Top
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Title: Quality
of women’s work and employment: tools for change
Corporate Author: European Foundation for the
Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Date: 2002
Website: http://www.eurofound.eu.int/
Abstract: These paper present findings documenting
the hurdles and achievements along the road towards a better quality
of women’s work and employment in Europe.
Subject: flexible working; employment; women; Europe
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Top
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Title: Recruitment,
retention and turnover 2004: a survey of the UK and Ireland
Corporate Author: Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
Date: 2004
Website: http://www.cipd.co.uk/
Abstract: The survey reviews how organizations
in the UK and Ireland are tackling the issues of attracting and
keeping their employees.
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academics; employer;
individuals
Title: Reflections on the Integration
of paid work with the rest of life
Authors: Lewis, Suzan; Rapoport, Rhona and Gambles,
Richenda
Date: [2004?]
Website: http://www.bc.edu
Abstract: This p aper look 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.
Subject: work-life balance; flexible working; pay
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: academics
Title: Research
on Work-Related Stress
Authors: European Agency for Safety and Health
at Work
Date: 2002
Website: http://agency.osha.eu.int/
Abstract: This report examines the difficulties
involved in placing work stress in the context of other life stressors.
Subject: work-life balance; stress; stress management
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academic; employers
Top
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Title: Shared
caring: bringing fathers into the frame
Author: O’Brien, Margaret
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.eoc.org.uk/
Abstract: This research explores current academic
and policy developments to examine how fathers can be supported to
balance their employment and family commitments.
Subject: work-life balance; fathers; family friendly;
flexible working
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics; policy-maker;
individuals
Title: Shared responsibility?
short- and long-term effects of Sweden's "Daddy-month" reform
Authors: Ekberg, John and Friebel, Guido
Date: 2004
Abstract: Review of the effect of the 1995 introduction of paternal
leave in Sweden. The research looks at the behaviour of fathers with children
born two weeks before and two weeks after 'Daddy Leave' was introduced. The conclusion
states that the number of fathers taking zero (0) days parental leave decreased
from 54% to 18%, and that fathers taking one month parental leave increased from
9% to 47%. However the option of one month of leave did not appear to have affected
male attitudes to childcare, which remained a predominantly female preserve.
Fathers taking the 'Daddy Month' already felt they should help in childcare,
thus the option did not result in men taking time off for childcare duties who
would not previously have considered it a necessary duty.
Subject: work-life balance; fathers; family friendly;
flexible working; parental leave
Material Type: Working Paper
Audience: academics; employer; individuals
Title: Sicknote
Britain?
Corporate Author: Trades Union Congress
Date: 2005
Website: www.tuc.org.uk/
Abstract: This new report by Surrey University
for the TUC counters the myths that UK workers - particularly
in the public sector - are always taking ‘sickies', that
stress is not a serious illness and that the solution to ‘sicknote
Britain' is a drastic cutback on the numbers of people in receipt
of Incapacity Benefit. The research found that British workers
are less likely to take short term sick leave than any other
European country except Denmark. The report also says that levels
of long-term absence were lower only in Austria, Germany and
Ireland. Four out of five workers believe taking a day off will
ruin their promotion chances.
Subject: absence; occupational health; stress;
work-life balance
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: employer; academics; individuals;
policy-makers
Title: Still
at work: an empirical test of competing theories of the long
hours culture
Authors: Cowling, Marc and Turner, Natalie
Date: April 2005
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Report uses a large-scale European
worker survey to test the validity of several competing hypotheses
of why people work long hours. The results show that there is a labour – quality
of leisure trade-off for women, but not for men. Other key determinants
of long working hours are industry sector, occupational status, gender
and job security proxied by employment contracts. The report also notes
that hours has no impact on job satisfaction.
Subject: flexible working; hours of work; work-life
balance;
Material Type: Report
Audience: academics; policymakers;
employers
Title: Stress:
research on work-related stress
Corporate Author: European Agency for Safety and
Health at Work
Date: 2002
Website: http://agency.osha.eu.int
Abstract: Comprehensive report on work-related
stress in the EU.
Subject: stress ; work-life balance
Material Type: Report
Audience: academic; employers
Top
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Title: Tackling
stress at work: a trade unionists guide
Corporate Author: Labour Research Department
Date: 2002
Website: www.lrd.org.uk/
Abstract: 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.
Subject: stress ; work-life balance; trade union
Material Type: Report
Audience: academics; employer
Title: True flexibility at
work: attitudes towards the 24/7 culture
Author: Holton, Viki
Date: 2002
Abstract: 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.
Subject: work-life balance; flexible working
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
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Title: Voices of Canadians:
seeking work-life balance
Corporate Author: Canadian Department of Social
Development
Date: 2003
Website: http://www.sdc.gc.ca/en/home.shtml
Abstract: This report is a compilation of the
comments of Canadian workers regarding how they feel about the
stress they are facing in their daily lives as they seek to balance
work and family. It makes recommendations for employers and government
about how they can reduce work-life conflict.
Subject: work-life balance; flexible working; stress;
occupational health
Material Type: Report
Audience: policy-maker; employer; individuals;
academics
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Title: Where's
Daddy? The UK Fathering Deficit
Authors: Jones, Alexandra and Bevan, Stephen
Date: December 2003
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: Report considers the causes of the
UK’s growing ‘Fathering Deficit’, present findings
from a survey of working fathers, and suggest adjustments to both
policy and practice.
Subject: fathers; flexible working; work-life balance
Material Type: Report
Audience: policymakers; employers;
academics
Title: Women
and flexible working in the NHS
Authors: Coyle, Angela
Date: 2003
Abstract: This research examines the nature
of flexible working within the NHS and its impact on women.
Subject: work-life balance; absence; stress; occupational
health
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: policy-maker; employer; individuals;
academics
Title: Work
and families: choice and flexibility – TUC response
Corporate Author: TUC
Date: 2005
Website: http://www.tuc.org.uk/
Abstract: T UC response to DTI consultation: 'Work and Families:
Choice and Flexibility' - which addresses a number of key workplace issues.
Subject: family friendly; work life balance; hours of work
Material Type: Consultation Paper
Audience: academics
Title: Work and family life
in the 21st century
Authors: Dex, Shirley
Date: 2003
Website: http://www.jrf.org.uk
Abstract: “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; flexible working
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
Title: Working beyond 60: key
policies and practices in Europe
Author: Reday-Mulvey, Geneviève
Date: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Abstract: This book provides an in-depth analysis
of the growing importance of work beyond sixty and a comparative
discussion of new policies in several EU Member States as well as
of company practice
Subject: older workers; ageing population; flexible
working; employment
Material Type: Book
Audience: employer; academics; individuals
Title: Working
fathers: earning and caring: a review of recent literature on
fathers in employment and secondary analysis of existing data
sets.
Authors: O’Brien, Margaret and Shemlit,
Ian
Date: 2003
Abstract : This report provide a review of literature
on fathers in employment focusing on both their ability to balance
work with family life and the role they play within the family
Subject: family friendly; work life balance; hours
of work
Material Type: Research Discussion
Audience: academics
Title: Working to live or living
to work? Work/life balance early in the career, In: Human
Resource Management Journal
Authors: Sturges, Jane and Guest, David
Date: 2004, Vol. 14, Issue 4 p5-20
Abstract: This article reports the findings of
research that explored relationships between work/life balance, work/non-work
conflict, hours worked and organisational commitment among a sample
of graduates in the early years of their career.
Subject: work-life balance; hours of work; flexible
working; psychological contract.
Material Type: Article
Audience: academics; employer
Title: Working
to the limit: stress and work–life balance in academic
and academic …
Authors: Kinman, Gail and Jones, Fiona
Date: 2004
Abstract: This study assesses the stressors
and job-related strains currently experienced by academic and
academic-related employees in the UK. It also examines the issue
of work–life balance experienced by university.
Subject: work-life balance; flexible working; stress
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer; academics; individuals
Title: Work-life balance
Corporate Authors: The Work Foundation
Date: 2003
Website: www.theworkfoundation.com
Abstract: 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; flexible working; flexible
benefits
Material Type: Survey Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Work-Life Balance, careers and the psychological
contract
Author: Glynn, C
Date: 2000
Website: http://www.roffeypark.com
Abstract: 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; flexible working; flexible
benefits; psychological contract
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: employer; academics
Title: Work-Life Balance: the role of the manager
Author: Glynn, C
Date: 2002
Website: http://www.roffeypark.com
Abstract: 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; flexible working;
flexible benefits; psychological contract
Material Type: Research Report
Audience: academics
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