"Family-Friendly" Programs

Paper Summary:

The paper overviews the emergence of family-friendly programs such as child support, education or company kindergartens that aimed to ease the mind of employees, who would in turn increase their performances and reduce turnover. The paper conducts a literature review and notes that studies offer controversial results regarding the true efficiencies of family-friendly programs. The paper offers three recommendations that include the continuation of the development and implementation of these family-friendly programs.

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Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Family-Friendly Programs
Conclusions and Recommendations

From the Paper:

"Today's society is constantly changing and adapting to more and newer requirements. The business community is no exception. Organizations have implemented change as an ongoing process for reasons such as staying on top of the competition, hiring and retaining the best qualified employees or enlarging and consolidating their market share, all with the ultimate purpose of registering increased revenues. A major modification has occurred in the approach of the human resource, which now receives various incentives in the hope that these stimulations would motivate the employee to increase his performances and support the organization in reaching its overall goals. However the incentives were generally on the financial side, along the past years they have suffered significant mutations, resulting in benefits such as telecommuting, access to swimming pools and company kindergartens, dinner parties organized and paid by the organization and a wide variety of nature trips or other activities which include the family of the employee."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Anderson, S.E., Coffer, B.S., Byerley, R.T., 2002, Formal Organizational Initiatives and Informal Workplace Practices: Links to Work-Family Conflict and Job Related Outcomes, Journal of Management, Vol. 28, No. 6
• Armour, S., October 19, 2003, More Companies Downsize Family-Friendly Programs, U.S.A. Today
• Auerbach, H.W., 2006, Fairness at Work - Federal Labour Standards for the 21st Century, Federal Labour Standards Review
• Flannery, R.B., May 2000, Violence in America: Coping with Drugs, Distressed Families, Inadequate Schooling and Acts of Hate, Continuum International Publishing Group
• Gray, H., 2002, Family-Friendly Working: What a Performance! An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Availability of Family Friendly Policies and Establishment Performance, Center for Economic Performance. London School of Economics and Political Science

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