I Have a Newborn at Home

Multi-actor Attributions and the Implementation of Shared Parental Leave

Bibliographic Data

ID2374471
AuthorsSara Chaudhry (0000-0003-0178-6749, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK, corresponding author), Ishbel Mcwha-Hermann (0000-0003-3400-5152, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK), Sophie Flemig (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK), Arleta Blackley-Wiertelak (University of Edinburgh Business School, UK)
Year2021
Volume35
Issue6
Pages995-1013
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017020962006
OpenAlexW3097737457
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited44

This article studies the organizational implementation of public policy, specifically shared parental leave (SPL) legislation (2015), through the lens of attribution theory (that is, actors' inferences for why policies are implemented by their employing organization), drawing on 26 in-depth interviews with a range of actors in a British university. Our findings highlight that attributions vary between different organizational actors despite SPL being an externally-mandated, unavoidable policy. Our key contributions are to study attributions associated with under-considered external policy, highlight the unintended intra-organizational variations in these attributions, and explore how the co-existence of varying actor attributions impacts policy implementation

Attribution · Legislation · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges

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