Expanding the boundaries of work-family research: a vision for the future

Offering a bold look at the future, this volume is a 'white book' for international work-family research and practice. It provides guidelines for future research, focusing on applied, international work-family research, with special attention to the cross-cultural dimension. With vision chapters written by thought leaders in the field, it is a source of inspiration for human resource, diversity and talent managers who want to know about the latest trends in work-life research including flexible work-life policies, culture development, work-family decision-making and coping, talent management, and supporting expatriates' families. A total of 30 authors from 15 countries contributed to this reference work, giving it a much needed international outlook. INDICE: List of Tables.List of Figures.PREFACE.Nuria Chinchilla (IESE Business School).PREFACE.Lotte Bailyn (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) .Acknowledgements.Notes on Contributors.INTRODUCTION.Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus& Mireia Las Heras .PART I: WORK-LIFEPOLICIES AND FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONS.Work-Family Policies: Linking National Contexts, Organizational Practice and People for Multi-level Change. Ellen Ernst Kossek & Ariane Ollier-Malaterre. Do Work-Family Policies Really 'Work'? Evidence from Indian Call Centres.Sweta Rajan-Rankin& Mark Tomlinson .PART II: WORK-LIFE CULTURE AND PRACTICES IN ORGANIZATIONS.Deconstructing 'Family' 'Supportive' 'Cultures': A Vision for the Future.Susan Lewis & Sweta Rajan-Rankin .Organisational Subcultures and Family Supportive Culture in a Spanish Organization.Olena Stepanova. PART III: Personal and professional careers and talent management.Work-Family Research and Practice: What if the Whole Person Mattered?.Elana Feldman & Douglas T. Hall. Effects of Gender and Family on Earnings and Career Paths: A Cross-Cultural Study of .Europe, the United States and Japan.Nini Yang. PART IV: Decision-making in a work-life context.The Present and Future of Work-Family Decision-Making.Steven Poelmans, JeffreyGreenhaus & .Olena Stepanova .Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family-Work Interface.Gary Powell & Jeffrey Greenhaus .PART V: Coping and strategies for harmonizing work and life.New Directions in Work-Family Coping Research.Debra A.Major, Heather M. Lauzun & Meghan P. Jones. Fairly Flexible: Preventing Perceptions of Unfairness in Enactment of Workplace .Flexibility.Špela Trefalt. PART VI: Work-life facilitation and enrichment.Issues in the Development of Research on Interrole Enrichment.Eva Demerouti, Inés Martinez Corts & Marina Boz .The Impact of Coworkers on Work-to-Family Enrichment and Organizational .Outcomes.Karen Korabik & Melissa Warner. PART VII: SPECIAL SECTION.Times are Changing: Gender and Generation at Work and at Home in the United States.Ellen Galinsky, Kerstin Aumann, James T. Bond. Work-Family Interface on International Assignments: A Model of Expatriate Work and .Family Performance.Mila Lazarova , Mina Westman & .Margaret Shaffer .CONCLUSION.Some Future Directions for Work-Family Research in a Global World.Tammy Allen.

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-0599-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 376
• Fecha Publicación: 26/10/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido