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The Conditions of Parenthood in Organisations: An International Comparison

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Křížková, Alena; Maříková, Hana; Dudová, Radka; Sloboda, Zdeněk

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Abstract The paper focuses on organisations and the conditions for working parents in terms of combining work and care and how those conditions are set up and negotiated in organisations. The research draws on three case studies comparing pairs of companies active in the Czech Republic and in one of the following countries – Germany, France, and Sweden – in the field of engineering. The goal is to explore in depth the conditions that Czech working parents are faced with and that derive from the organisational processes and means and dynamics of negotiating conditions for working parents, and to compare them with the conditions in other countries and identify the sources of variability of these conditions. Important differences between a company’s family-friendly practices in its home country and in its Czech branches are primarily determined by the differences in the way in which welfare regimes are set up in individual countries. In addition, the authors identify the following five main interlinked factors explaining the variability of family-friendly policies and practices in organisations: parental (maternity) ideologies, the organisational culture of non-discrimination and equal opportunities, the actors’ activity in work relations, the role of trade unions in negotiations, and the given organisation’s experience with employees-parents.
Classification Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations; Human Resources Management; Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords organisations; family-friendly policies; work; gender
Document language English
Publication Year 2009
Page/Pages 519–547 p.
Journal Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 45 (2009) 3
Status Published Version; reviewed
Licence Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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