Organizational Change and Gender Equity - International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers At the Workplace

Klappentext Comparing progress in the United Kingdom, United States, Scandinavia and Australia, this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles. An interdisciplinary and international team of contributors: explore the problems of working parents and policies adopted to help them; examine workplace programmes relevant to work-family and gender issues in the four societies; and present case studies of organizations undergoing change. Zusammenfassung Comparing progress in the United Kingdom! United States! Scandinavia and Australia! this book looks at how organizations are changing to help individuals combine work and family roles. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction - Linda Haas, Philip Hwang and Graeme Russell PART TWO: FATHERS AND MOTHERS AT THE WORKPLACE Employed Mothers and Fathers in the United States - Ellen Galinsky and Jennifer Swanberg Understanding How Work and Family Life Fit Together Mothers and Fathers in the Workplace - Julia Brannen The United Kingdom Conflicting Commitments - Helen Glezer and Ilene Wolcott Working Mothers and Fathers in Australia Equality and Backlash - Ulla Björnberg Family, Gender and Social Policy in Sweden PART THREE: WORKPLACE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS Workplace Programs and Policies that Address Work-Family and Gender Equity Issues in the United States - Gary Bowen Workplace Programmes and Policies in the United Kingdom - Julia Brannen and Sue Lewis From Equal Employment Opportunity to Family-Friendly Policies and Beyond - Rohan Squirchuk and Juliet Bourke Gender Equity in Australia Programs and Policies Promoting Women¿s Economic Equality and Men¿s Sharing of Child Care in Sweden - Linda Haas and Philip Hwang PART FOUR: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND GENDER Moving Corporations in the US Toward Gender Equity - Lotte Bailyn, Rhona Rapoport and Joyce Fletcher A Cautionary Tale Organisational Change and Gender Equity - Sue Lewis Case Studies from the United Kingdom Organisational Change and Gender Equity - Graeme Russell and Don Edgar An Australian Case Study Organizational Cultures, Families and Careers in Scandinavia - Yvonne Due Billing Swedish Parents at a Multinational Conglomerate - Clarissa Kugelberg ...

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• Authors: Linda Hwang Haas, Linda L Hwang Haas, Linda L. Haas, Linda L. Hwang Haas, HAAS LINDA HWANG PHILIP HAAS LI, Philip Hwang, Graeme Russell
• Assisted by: Linda Haas (Editor), Linda L. Haas (Editor), Haas Linda L. (Editor), Philip Hwang (Editor), Philip O. Hwang (Editor), Hwang Philip (Editor), Graeme Russell (Editor), Russell Graeme (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.1999
• EAN: 9780761910442
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1044-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Personnel & human resources management, Sociology: work & labour, Personnel and human resources management, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Change Management;Organization Studies