Laura Den Dulk
Biographic Data
| ID | 267682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Den Dulk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Den |
| FAMILY NAME | Dulk |
| SIGNATURE | DULK L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1357-716X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 212 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The leisure crafting intervention: Effects on work and non-work outcomes and the moderating role of age
Leisure crafting (i.e. the proactive pursuit of leisure activities targeted at goal-setting, learning, and human connection) enhances people’s lives. Because employees are more than just workers, this study examines whether leisure crafting not only improves non-work outcomes but also spills over to benefit work, particularly for older employees. We conducted an online leisure crafting intervention among working adults, to examine its effects on …
Flextime/Flexspace for All in the Organization? A Study of the Availability, Use, and Consequences of Flexible Work Arrangements for Low and High SES Employees in Nine European Countries
This article investigates the relationship between employee socioeconomic status (SES) and the availability, use, and consequences for employees of flexible work arrangements (working from home and flexible starting and finishing times). Multi-level analyses based on the European Sustainable Workforce Survey (11,011 employees nested in 869 teams at 259 organizations in nine European countries) reveal a negative relationship between low SES employ…
Gender, networks and academic leadership: A systematic review
This article systematically reviews 35 empirical articles on the topic of networks and career advancement into academic leadership positions. Our objectives in this systematic review are to clarify (a) the functions that networks fulfil, (b) the outcomes of these functions in terms of career advancement and (c) whether networks are likely to result in more or less career advancement for women compared to men. Four databases were searched using th…
Wellbeing and the community, work & family interface
There has been a substantial growth in academic interest in how the wellbeing of people is affected by community, work and family and their intersections. This integrated perspective on wellbeing i
Community, work and family in diverse contexts and changing times
The 8th International Community, Work and Family conference took place in Malta at the Valletta campus of the University of Malta between the 23rd to the 25th May 2019. In a pre-COVID-19 world with no traveling restrictions, the conference brought together over 100 experts, academics, and students from a broad range of countries and disciplines to focus on the theme of Community, Work and Family in Diverse Contexts and Changing Times. \n \nThe re…
A business case or social responsibility? How top managers’ support for work-life arrangements relates to the national context
The extent to which organizations supplement statutory work-life arrangements varies systematically between countries. Empirical evidence on how organizations’ approaches to work-life arrangements relate to the national context is, however, mixed. This study aims to elucidate this complex relationship by focusing on how top managers’ considerations about whether or not to provide work-life arrangements are related to the national context. Semi-st…
European top managers' support for work-life arrangements
Capabilities to Combine Work and Family in the Netherlands: Challenging or Reinforcing the One-and-a-half Earner Model?
In this article, we assess the extent to which national-level work-family policies in the Netherlands enable various groups of working parents (men versus women, low versus highly educated, and dependent employees versus self-employed) to combine work and care. We answer this question by conducting a policy analysis using Sen’s (1992) capability framework. Applying this perspective, we evaluate the availability, accessibility and design of work-f…
Supervisory support in Slovenian and Dutch organizations: A Contextualizing Approach
This paper builds on the influential work of Suzan Lewis examining how employees\\xe2\\x80\\x99 work\\xe2\\x80\\x93life experiences are shaped by different layers of context. Our approach is therefore a comparative one using data from four organizational contexts in two countries, the Netherlands and Slovenia. Within each organization, we examine the role of different types of supervisory support (specific family support and general support) and …
Dutch top managers and work-life arrangements in times of economic crisis
This paper investigates the considerations of top managers regarding work-life arrangements. A dynamic and contextual approach is taken, using data from 26 semi-structured interviews with top managers from 13 organizations in 2008, before the economic crisis began, and again in 2011, when the ensuing recessions were well under way. Analysis shows that work-life arrangements are increasingly perceived by top managers as integrated into their organ…
Work–Family Conflict Among Employees and the Self-Employed Across Europe
Veranderingen in overwegingen van topmanagers over werk-privébeleid tijdens de economische crisis
Changes in top managers’ considerations around work-life arrangements during the economic crisis In this article we ask the question how the considerations of top managers regarding organizational work-life policies have changed during the recent time of economic crisis and how these changes can be understood from the organizational context. The result of the comparison of semi-structured interviews held in 2008 and again in 2011 show that top ma…
Autonomy: The Panacea for Self-Employed Women's Work-Life Balance
This study aims to increase our knowledge of the work-life balance (WLB) of self-employed workers, a changing but often neglected group in work–family research. A growing number of women are starting their own business in order to combine paid work and family life. This interview study (N=24) examines how self-employed women with children feel they manage paid work and other life domains in the Netherlands. Autonomy appeared to be an important re…
Quality of Life and Work in Europe
Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life. This book examines different institutional arrangements, work-place c
Work, Family, and Managerial Attitudes and Practices in the European Workplace: Comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian Financial Sector Managers
Managers are key actors shaping employees’ capabilities to utilize work–life policies. However, most research on managers’ implementation of these policies has been conducted in liberal welfare states and ignores the impact of institutional context. In this study, we situate managers within specific workplace and national layers of context. We investigated how managers in financial organizations in the Netherlands, UK, and Slovenia talk about the…
Support for the work-life balance in Europe: The Impact of State, Workplace and Family Support on Work-Life Balance Satisfaction
This article studies the relevance of different types of support for satisfaction with work life balance. More specifically, it investigates the relevance of state, instrumental and emotional workplace and family support, based on a survey of 7867 service-sector workers in eight European countries. The article starts by mapping available state, workplace and family support in order to determine which source dominates in which country and whether …
Health among hospital employees in Europe: A cross-national study of the impact of work stress and work control
The extended business case for childcare and leave arrangements in Western and Eastern Europe
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an “extended conceptualization of the business case” including both organizational characteristics and institutional conditions to analyse employer involvement in extra statutory childcare and leave arrangements. Special attention is given to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Design/methodology/approach The (multi‐level) multinomial regression analyses included company‐level data on huma…
May I work from home? Views of the employment relationship reflected in line managers' telework attitudes in six financial‐sector organizations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to two related contemporary debates on the changing views of the employment relation and on the adoption of telework as a new work practice by analyzing line managers' general telework‐attitude formation processes, and possible outcomes in concrete request situations, mirroring managers' views of the employment relationship. Design/methodology/approach This multi‐method study among 65 managers in…
The effects of time-spatial flexibility and new working conditions on employees' work-life balance: The Dutch case
n Contains fulltext :\n 77278.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Not worth mentioning: The implicit and explicit nature of decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work
The aim of this qualitative study of 31 Dutch couples is to help us understand why the division of paid and unpaid work between women and men remains stubbornly unequal, despite women’s gains in the workplace and rising educational levels. This study expands on other research by documenting daily implicit and explicit decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work by couples during a unique period of their lives: the formative years…
Social Policy in Europe: Its Impact on Families and Work
Whether or not Europeans are able to achieve a healthy work/life balance is due, at least in part, to the effects of social policies in the different nations. In the comparative literature on European social policy, the differences between various welfare regimes is an important and recurring theme. Europe is made up of a diverse collection of nations and there are wide variations in social policy across the European Union. The Esping-Andersen ty…
Cross Cultural Differences in Managers’ Support for Home-Based Telework: A Theoretical Elaboration
Home-based telework is one of the arrangements organizations can introduce to facilitate a better balance between employees’ professional and private lives. This article focuses on the question of under what conditions managers grant a subordinate’s request to telework and what role national cultures play herein. By looking into managers’ willingness to delegate power and to trust home-based teleworkers we try to explain the slow adoption of home…
Work‐family arrangements and gender inequality in Europe
Focuses on how government policy regarding work‐family arrangements affects the labour market position of women and men in the European Union. Discusses the statutory provisions of three different work‐family arrangements: leave arrangements, child care and part‐time work. Finds that the development of work‐family arrangements differs between member states, although these differences can be placed in a typology of welfare state regimes. To determ…
Support for the work-life balance in Europe: The Impact of State, Workplace and Family Support on Work-Life Balance Satisfaction
This article studies the relevance of different types of support for satisfaction with work life balance. More specifically, it investigates the relevance of state, instrumental and emotional workplace and family support, based on a survey of 7867 service-sector workers in eight European countries. The article starts by mapping available state, workplace and family support in order to determine which source dominates in which country and whether …
The effects of time-spatial flexibility and new working conditions on employees' work-life balance: The Dutch case
n Contains fulltext :\n 77278.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Not worth mentioning: The implicit and explicit nature of decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work
The aim of this qualitative study of 31 Dutch couples is to help us understand why the division of paid and unpaid work between women and men remains stubbornly unequal, despite women’s gains in the workplace and rising educational levels. This study expands on other research by documenting daily implicit and explicit decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work by couples during a unique period of their lives: the formative years…
Work, Family, and Managerial Attitudes and Practices in the European Workplace: Comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian Financial Sector Managers
Managers are key actors shaping employees’ capabilities to utilize work–life policies. However, most research on managers’ implementation of these policies has been conducted in liberal welfare states and ignores the impact of institutional context. In this study, we situate managers within specific workplace and national layers of context. We investigated how managers in financial organizations in the Netherlands, UK, and Slovenia talk about the…
Autonomy: The Panacea for Self-Employed Women's Work-Life Balance
This study aims to increase our knowledge of the work-life balance (WLB) of self-employed workers, a changing but often neglected group in work–family research. A growing number of women are starting their own business in order to combine paid work and family life. This interview study (N=24) examines how self-employed women with children feel they manage paid work and other life domains in the Netherlands. Autonomy appeared to be an important re…
Supervisory support in Slovenian and Dutch organizations: A Contextualizing Approach
This paper builds on the influential work of Suzan Lewis examining how employees\\xe2\\x80\\x99 work\\xe2\\x80\\x93life experiences are shaped by different layers of context. Our approach is therefore a comparative one using data from four organizational contexts in two countries, the Netherlands and Slovenia. Within each organization, we examine the role of different types of supervisory support (specific family support and general support) and …
Work–Family Conflict Among Employees and the Self-Employed Across Europe
Dutch top managers and work-life arrangements in times of economic crisis
This paper investigates the considerations of top managers regarding work-life arrangements. A dynamic and contextual approach is taken, using data from 26 semi-structured interviews with top managers from 13 organizations in 2008, before the economic crisis began, and again in 2011, when the ensuing recessions were well under way. Analysis shows that work-life arrangements are increasingly perceived by top managers as integrated into their organ…
Cross Cultural Differences in Managers’ Support for Home-Based Telework: A Theoretical Elaboration
Home-based telework is one of the arrangements organizations can introduce to facilitate a better balance between employees’ professional and private lives. This article focuses on the question of under what conditions managers grant a subordinate’s request to telework and what role national cultures play herein. By looking into managers’ willingness to delegate power and to trust home-based teleworkers we try to explain the slow adoption of home…
Health among hospital employees in Europe: A cross-national study of the impact of work stress and work control
European top managers' support for work-life arrangements
May I work from home? Views of the employment relationship reflected in line managers' telework attitudes in six financial‐sector organizations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to two related contemporary debates on the changing views of the employment relation and on the adoption of telework as a new work practice by analyzing line managers' general telework‐attitude formation processes, and possible outcomes in concrete request situations, mirroring managers' views of the employment relationship. Design/methodology/approach This multi‐method study among 65 managers in…
Flextime/Flexspace for All in the Organization? A Study of the Availability, Use, and Consequences of Flexible Work Arrangements for Low and High SES Employees in Nine European Countries
This article investigates the relationship between employee socioeconomic status (SES) and the availability, use, and consequences for employees of flexible work arrangements (working from home and flexible starting and finishing times). Multi-level analyses based on the European Sustainable Workforce Survey (11,011 employees nested in 869 teams at 259 organizations in nine European countries) reveal a negative relationship between low SES employ…
A business case or social responsibility? How top managers’ support for work-life arrangements relates to the national context
The extent to which organizations supplement statutory work-life arrangements varies systematically between countries. Empirical evidence on how organizations’ approaches to work-life arrangements relate to the national context is, however, mixed. This study aims to elucidate this complex relationship by focusing on how top managers’ considerations about whether or not to provide work-life arrangements are related to the national context. Semi-st…
Community, work and family in diverse contexts and changing times
The 8th International Community, Work and Family conference took place in Malta at the Valletta campus of the University of Malta between the 23rd to the 25th May 2019. In a pre-COVID-19 world with no traveling restrictions, the conference brought together over 100 experts, academics, and students from a broad range of countries and disciplines to focus on the theme of Community, Work and Family in Diverse Contexts and Changing Times. \n \nThe re…
Work‐family arrangements and gender inequality in Europe
Focuses on how government policy regarding work‐family arrangements affects the labour market position of women and men in the European Union. Discusses the statutory provisions of three different work‐family arrangements: leave arrangements, child care and part‐time work. Finds that the development of work‐family arrangements differs between member states, although these differences can be placed in a typology of welfare state regimes. To determ…
Cross Cultural Differences in Managers’ Support for Home-Based Telework: A Theoretical Elaboration
Home-based telework is one of the arrangements organizations can introduce to facilitate a better balance between employees’ professional and private lives. This article focuses on the question of under what conditions managers grant a subordinate’s request to telework and what role national cultures play herein. By looking into managers’ willingness to delegate power and to trust home-based teleworkers we try to explain the slow adoption of home…
Social Policy in Europe: Its Impact on Families and Work
Whether or not Europeans are able to achieve a healthy work/life balance is due, at least in part, to the effects of social policies in the different nations. In the comparative literature on European social policy, the differences between various welfare regimes is an important and recurring theme. Europe is made up of a diverse collection of nations and there are wide variations in social policy across the European Union. The Esping-Andersen ty…
Not worth mentioning: The implicit and explicit nature of decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work
The aim of this qualitative study of 31 Dutch couples is to help us understand why the division of paid and unpaid work between women and men remains stubbornly unequal, despite women’s gains in the workplace and rising educational levels. This study expands on other research by documenting daily implicit and explicit decision-making about the division of paid and domestic work by couples during a unique period of their lives: the formative years…
The effects of time-spatial flexibility and new working conditions on employees' work-life balance: The Dutch case
n Contains fulltext :\n 77278.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
The extended business case for childcare and leave arrangements in Western and Eastern Europe
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an “extended conceptualization of the business case” including both organizational characteristics and institutional conditions to analyse employer involvement in extra statutory childcare and leave arrangements. Special attention is given to Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Design/methodology/approach The (multi‐level) multinomial regression analyses included company‐level data on huma…
May I work from home? Views of the employment relationship reflected in line managers' telework attitudes in six financial‐sector organizations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to two related contemporary debates on the changing views of the employment relation and on the adoption of telework as a new work practice by analyzing line managers' general telework‐attitude formation processes, and possible outcomes in concrete request situations, mirroring managers' views of the employment relationship. Design/methodology/approach This multi‐method study among 65 managers in…
Quality of Life and Work in Europe
Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life. This book examines different institutional arrangements, work-place c
Work, Family, and Managerial Attitudes and Practices in the European Workplace: Comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian Financial Sector Managers
Managers are key actors shaping employees’ capabilities to utilize work–life policies. However, most research on managers’ implementation of these policies has been conducted in liberal welfare states and ignores the impact of institutional context. In this study, we situate managers within specific workplace and national layers of context. We investigated how managers in financial organizations in the Netherlands, UK, and Slovenia talk about the…
Support for the work-life balance in Europe: The Impact of State, Workplace and Family Support on Work-Life Balance Satisfaction
This article studies the relevance of different types of support for satisfaction with work life balance. More specifically, it investigates the relevance of state, instrumental and emotional workplace and family support, based on a survey of 7867 service-sector workers in eight European countries. The article starts by mapping available state, workplace and family support in order to determine which source dominates in which country and whether …
Health among hospital employees in Europe: A cross-national study of the impact of work stress and work control
Autonomy: The Panacea for Self-Employed Women's Work-Life Balance
This study aims to increase our knowledge of the work-life balance (WLB) of self-employed workers, a changing but often neglected group in work–family research. A growing number of women are starting their own business in order to combine paid work and family life. This interview study (N=24) examines how self-employed women with children feel they manage paid work and other life domains in the Netherlands. Autonomy appeared to be an important re…
Veranderingen in overwegingen van topmanagers over werk-privébeleid tijdens de economische crisis
Changes in top managers’ considerations around work-life arrangements during the economic crisis In this article we ask the question how the considerations of top managers regarding organizational work-life policies have changed during the recent time of economic crisis and how these changes can be understood from the organizational context. The result of the comparison of semi-structured interviews held in 2008 and again in 2011 show that top ma…
Work–Family Conflict Among Employees and the Self-Employed Across Europe
Capabilities to Combine Work and Family in the Netherlands: Challenging or Reinforcing the One-and-a-half Earner Model?
In this article, we assess the extent to which national-level work-family policies in the Netherlands enable various groups of working parents (men versus women, low versus highly educated, and dependent employees versus self-employed) to combine work and care. We answer this question by conducting a policy analysis using Sen’s (1992) capability framework. Applying this perspective, we evaluate the availability, accessibility and design of work-f…
Supervisory support in Slovenian and Dutch organizations: A Contextualizing Approach
This paper builds on the influential work of Suzan Lewis examining how employees\\xe2\\x80\\x99 work\\xe2\\x80\\x93life experiences are shaped by different layers of context. Our approach is therefore a comparative one using data from four organizational contexts in two countries, the Netherlands and Slovenia. Within each organization, we examine the role of different types of supervisory support (specific family support and general support) and …
Dutch top managers and work-life arrangements in times of economic crisis
This paper investigates the considerations of top managers regarding work-life arrangements. A dynamic and contextual approach is taken, using data from 26 semi-structured interviews with top managers from 13 organizations in 2008, before the economic crisis began, and again in 2011, when the ensuing recessions were well under way. Analysis shows that work-life arrangements are increasingly perceived by top managers as integrated into their organ…
A business case or social responsibility? How top managers’ support for work-life arrangements relates to the national context
The extent to which organizations supplement statutory work-life arrangements varies systematically between countries. Empirical evidence on how organizations’ approaches to work-life arrangements relate to the national context is, however, mixed. This study aims to elucidate this complex relationship by focusing on how top managers’ considerations about whether or not to provide work-life arrangements are related to the national context. Semi-st…
European top managers' support for work-life arrangements
Community, work and family in diverse contexts and changing times
The 8th International Community, Work and Family conference took place in Malta at the Valletta campus of the University of Malta between the 23rd to the 25th May 2019. In a pre-COVID-19 world with no traveling restrictions, the conference brought together over 100 experts, academics, and students from a broad range of countries and disciplines to focus on the theme of Community, Work and Family in Diverse Contexts and Changing Times. \n \nThe re…
Wellbeing and the community, work & family interface
There has been a substantial growth in academic interest in how the wellbeing of people is affected by community, work and family and their intersections. This integrated perspective on wellbeing i
Gender, networks and academic leadership: A systematic review
This article systematically reviews 35 empirical articles on the topic of networks and career advancement into academic leadership positions. Our objectives in this systematic review are to clarify (a) the functions that networks fulfil, (b) the outcomes of these functions in terms of career advancement and (c) whether networks are likely to result in more or less career advancement for women compared to men. Four databases were searched using th…
Flextime/Flexspace for All in the Organization? A Study of the Availability, Use, and Consequences of Flexible Work Arrangements for Low and High SES Employees in Nine European Countries
This article investigates the relationship between employee socioeconomic status (SES) and the availability, use, and consequences for employees of flexible work arrangements (working from home and flexible starting and finishing times). Multi-level analyses based on the European Sustainable Workforce Survey (11,011 employees nested in 869 teams at 259 organizations in nine European countries) reveal a negative relationship between low SES employ…
The leisure crafting intervention: Effects on work and non-work outcomes and the moderating role of age
Leisure crafting (i.e. the proactive pursuit of leisure activities targeted at goal-setting, learning, and human connection) enhances people’s lives. Because employees are more than just workers, this study examines whether leisure crafting not only improves non-work outcomes but also spills over to benefit work, particularly for older employees. We conducted an online leisure crafting intervention among working adults, to examine its effects on …
Political science (18 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (18 works) · Work (physics (15 works) · Engineering (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works)