- Additional Authors
- Hobson, Barbara Meil, 1945-
- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 297 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Worklife balance (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Work life balance
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : capabilities and agency for worklife balance-a multidimensional framework / Barbara Hobson -- Part I. The individual/household and the agency and capabilities gap : policy frameworks, norms, and work organizational cultures. The agency gap : policies, norms, and working time capabilities across welfare states / Susanne Fahlen -- A sense of entitlement? : Agency and capabilities in Sweden and hungary / Barbara Hobson, Susanne Fahlén, and Judit Takács -- Worklife balance in Japan : new policies, old practices / Mieko Takahashi, Saori Kamano, Tomoko Matsuda, Setsuko Onode, and Kyoko Yoshizumi -- Agency freedom for worklife balance in Germany and Spain / Sonja Drobnič and Margarita León -- Part II. The firm level and the agency and capabilities gap : policies, managers, and work organization. Workplace worklife balance support from a capabilities perspective / Laura den Dulk, Sandra Groeneveld, and Bram Peper -- Working time capabilities at the workplace : individual adjustment options between full-time and part-time working in European firms / Colette Fagan and Pierre Walthery -- Capabilities for worklife balance : managerial attitudes and employee practices in the Dutch, British, and Slovenian banking sector / Bram Peper, Laura den Dulk, Nevenka Černigoj Sadar, Suzan Lewis, Janet Smithson, and Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes -- Capabilities for worklife balance in the context of increasing work intensity and precariousness in the service sector and the IT industry in a transitional economy / Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčecla and Nevenka Černigoj Sadar -- Conclusion / Barbara Hobson.
- LCCN
- OCLC
- ssj0001171285
- Title
Worklife balance [electronic resource] : the agency and capabilities gap / edited by Barbara Hobson.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Edition
First edition.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Hobson, Barbara Meil, 1945-
ebrary.
- Other Standard Identifier
60001859716