Work, Family, and Managerial Attitudes and Practices in the European Workplace
Comparing Dutch, British, and Slovenian Financial Sector Managers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12426014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Den Dulk (0000-0003-1357-716X, corresponding author), Bram Peper (0000-0002-7157-0348), Nevenka Černigoj Sadar, Suzanne Lewis (0000-0002-5250-7415, Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)), Janet Smithson (0000-0002-5413-4368), Anneke van Doorne‐Huiskes, A Van Doorne-Huiskes |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 300-329 |
| Publication date | 2011-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Politics International Studies in Gender State & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1072-4745 • E-ISSN: 1468-2893 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sp/jxr009 |
| PMID | 21966700 |
| OpenAlex | W2054199155 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 utilization of work–life policies. Managers’ discourses stressed disruption and dependency considerations in these case studies, as in the US research. However, a further management discourse of the moral case or right thing to do also emerged. The lack of resources for replacing staff on leave creates disruption and reduces managers capability to support the use of work–life policies, even when they are statutory or if managers are inclined be supportive (dependency or moral argument). This is likely to impact on parents' capabilities
Argument (complex analysis · Business · Context (archaeology · Dependency (UML · Economics · Political science · Public relations · Statutory law · Welfare · Work (physics · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Work-Family Balance Challenges
‘People who are much better at managing their affairs’
Capabilities to Combine Work and Family in the Netherlands
Antecedents and outcomes of job embeddedness among nurses
Work and Care Under Pressure Care Arrangements Across Europe
Viewed with suspicion, considered idle and mocked‐working caregiving fathers and fatherhood forfeits”
The Subjectivity of Fairness
Paths towards Family‐friendly Working Time Arrangements
The risks of job flexibility
Economic, Normative, and Moral Reasoning in Employer Attitudes to Maternity Leave
Feminist composite narratives of Chinese women
A business case or social responsibility? How top managers’ support for work-life arrangements relates to the national context
Focus group methodology in a life course approach – individual accounts within a peer cohort group
Individual Working-time Adjustments between Full-time and Part-time Working in European Firms
Social Policies Related to Parenthood and Capabilities of Slovenian Parents
Affective commitment, home‐based working and the blurring of work–home boundaries
The Magnificent 7[am]?’ Work‐life articulation beyond the 9[am] to 5[pm] ‘norm’
The transition to part-time
Is maternal labor market re-entry after childbirth facilitated by mothers’ and partners’ flextime
Explaining organizational variation in flexible work arrangements
The non-use of telework in an ideal worker culture
Policy is not enough - the influence of the gendered workplace on fathers' use of parental leave in Sweden
Supervisory support in Slovenian and Dutch organizations
Are the ideal worker and ideal parent norms about to change? The acceptance of part-time and parental leave at German workplaces
The problem is in practice
Making use of work-family balance entitlements
Autonomy
Successes in Changing Flexible Work Arrangement Use
If You Can Use Them
Gender, Comparative Research and Biographical Matching
Sen's Capability Approach and Gender Inequality
Family Friendly’ Employment Policies
Toward culture‐sensitive theories of the work–family interface
Sense of Entitlement to Support for the Reconciliation of Employment and Family Life
The relationships of national gender equality and organizational support with work-family balance
Competing Scenarios for European Fathers
Out of Time
System, Society and Dominance Effects in Cross-National Organisational Analysis
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |