Balancing Parenthood and Employment: Factors Affecting Company Receptiveness to Family-Related Innovations in the Workplace.

McNeeley, R. L.; Fogarty, Barbe A.

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ERIC Number: EJ375970

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Publication Date: 1988

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Balancing Parenthood and Employment: Factors Affecting Company Receptiveness to Family-Related Innovations in the Workplace.

McNeeley, R. L.; Fogarty, Barbe A.

Family Relations, v37 n2 p189-95 Apr 1988

Examined employer reluctance to consider and/or implement innovations by assessing the relationship between selected demographic features of companies and the receptiveness of these companies to the introduction of innovative changes, as reported by company officials. Found demographic and other features influenced company officials' willingness to consider and implement innovations. (Author/KS)

Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices, Family Life, Innovation, Job Sharing, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Personnel Management, Quality of Working Life, Released Time, Work Environment, Working Hours

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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