Lewis / Anderson / Lyonette Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond

Meeting the Needs of Employees, Organizations and Social Justice
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-40565-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Employment Relations

Work-Life Balance in Times of Recession, Austerity and Beyond reflects the enormous ongoing interest in work-life balance (WLB) and current pressing concerns about the impacts of austerity more broadly. It draws on contemporary research and practitioner experiences to explore how ongoing and new challenges for WLB and related social policy fare in turbulent economic times and the implications this holds for employees, employers and wider societies.

A guiding theme throughout the book is the focus on a triple agenda of supporting employee WLB, workplace effectiveness and social justice in an austerity context. The book first sets out the context in terms of working time trends, job quality and social policy across Europe under economic austerity. It then examines workplace, legal and social challenges for employers, workers and careers and considers potential consequences for the triple agenda. Finally case studies of effective organizational policies and practices and organizational innovation processes are discussed along with international examples of social and community innovations.

This book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students of organisational psychology, sociology, human resource management, management and business studies, law and social policy, as well as employers, managers, HR managers, trade unions, and policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Suzan

Anderson, Deirdre Dr

Anderson, Deirdre

Lyonette, Clare Dr

Lyonette, Clare

Payne, Nicola Prof

Payne, Nicola

Wood, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Working Time Trends and Work-Life Balance in Europe since the Onset of the Great Recession

Colette Fagan and Greet Vermeylen

2. Work-Life Balance, Health and Well-Being in Times of Austerity

Gail Kinman and Almuth McDowall

3. Employer Support for Work-Life Balance in Recession: Findings for Britain from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey

Lucy Stokes and Stephen Wood

4. Work-Life Balance and Austerity: Implications of New Ways of Working in British Public Sector Organisations

Clare Lyonette, Deirdre Anderson, Suzan Lewis, Nicola Payne and Stephen Wood

5. Regulating Work and Care Relationships in a Time of Austerity: A Legal Perspective

Nicole Busby and Grace James

6. Trade Unions and Work-Life Balance: The Impact of the Great Recession in France and the UK

Susan Milner

7. Work-Life Balance and Class: In Search of Working-Class Work-Lives.

Tracey Warren

8. Self-Employment in Times of Economic Crisis: Work-Life Challenges

Laura den Dulk, Anne Annink and Bram Peper

9. The Physical Workplace and Work-Life Balance: Perspectives from Practice

Ziona Strelitz

10. Revisiting the Dual Agenda: Why Companies Miss the Point if they Retract Flexible Work Arrangements during Bad Times

Hyosun Kim, Lotte Bailyn and Deborah M. Kolb

11. Towards a Triple Agenda for Work-Life Balance Beyond Recession and Austerity

Deirdre Anderson, Jonathan Swan and Suzan Lewis

Über Autor(innen)

Suzan Lewis is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Middlesex University, London, UK.

Deirdre Anderson is a Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at Cranfield University School of Management, UK.

Clare Lyonette is a Principal Research Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research (IER), UK.

Nicola Payne is a Health Psychologist and Associate Professor in Psychology at Middlesex University, UK.

Stephen Wood is Professor of Management, University of Leicester, UK and an Academician of the British Academy of Social Science and Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.