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Equity Issues in Work/Life Balance Programmes

Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies

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Title Equity Issues in Work/Life Balance Programmes
 
Creator Kelly, Avette
 
Subject Equity, work place culture
 
Description In the past 10 years there has been an increasing number of works published detailing the positive impact of family-friendly and work/life balance programmes on workplace culture and performance. While this study does not attempt to refute this body of literature, it does address all issue which has been largely ignored thus far. That is, that work/life programmes with an emphasis on family-friendly initiatives can leave some staff members feeling disadvantaged and create a subculture of dissatisfaction. This paper examines whether these feelings exist ill a small sample of New Zealand companies. Staff from two groups within Auckland City Council were surveyed and an email questionnaire was sent to a non-random sample of childless employees from 10 other firms. These results of these surveys did notified evidence to support the idea that many childless staff feel disadvantaged by family-friendly initiatives especially where the programmes were flexible and could be used by anyone who needed them.
 
Publisher Victoria University of Wellington
 
Date 2000-12-04
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1045
10.26686/lew.v0i0.1045
 
Source Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand; 2000: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand
2463-2600
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/1045/853