Family-Friendly Management in Great Britain: Testing Various Perspectives

Five main perspectives on family‐friendly management are differentiated by their conceptions about the nature of such management and not just by its assumed predictors. Multivariate analysis of the relationships among a set of family‐oriented practices shows that some but not all are used in a syste...

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Published in:Industrial relations (Berkeley) 2003-04, Vol.42 (2), p.221-250
Main Authors: Wood, Stephen J., De Menezes, Lilian M., Lasaosa, Ana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Employment
Enterprises
Family
Great Britain
Human resource management
Hypotheses
Industrial relations
Management
Personnel Management
Personnel Policy
Regression analysis
Studies
U.S.A
United Kingdom
Work life programs
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Summary:Five main perspectives on family‐friendly management are differentiated by their conceptions about the nature of such management and not just by its assumed predictors. Multivariate analysis of the relationships among a set of family‐oriented practices shows that some but not all are used in a systematic way. Regression analysis reveals that employers’ adoption of family‐friendly approaches is explained by factors that span all five perspectives, but overall, the organizational adaptation perspective fares best.
ISSN:0019-8676
1468-232X
DOI:10.1111/1468-232X.00288