Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Gray, Helen (2002) Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance. CEPDP (529). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK. ISBN 0753015501

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Abstract

This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in almost all cases where there is a significant relationship between the use of a family-friendly practice and workplace performance, this relationship is positive. In addition, it appears that workplaces which offer an extensive range of family-friendly policies are much more likely to have above-average performance than those with no such practices. The paper moves on to consider whether employers offering policies which enable employees with families to maintain a full-time presence in the workplace e.g. a workplace nursery, have better performance than those which offer policies which result in reduced-visibility e.g. working from home, part-time work. The evidence from WERS98 suggests that this is indeed the case.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://cep.lse.ac.uk
Additional Information:	© 2002 Helen Gray
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
JEL classification:	L - Industrial Organization > L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance > L10 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J13 - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth M - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting > M1 - Business Administration > M12 - Personnel Management J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J7 - Labor Discrimination > J71 - Discrimination J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Time Allocation, Work Behavior, and Employment Determination and Creation; Human Capital; Retirement > J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Date Deposited:	29 Jul 2008 10:13
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 19:46
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/20082

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