Published: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9775242-2-8
Pages: ii+108
Imprint: eContent Management
Guest Editors
Thomas Kalliath
School of Management, Marketing and International Business
Australian National University, Canberra ACT, Australia
Paula Brough
School of Psychology, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt QLD, Australia
Work-family balance is emerging as a key strategic element in the human resource management (HRM) policies of successful organisations for attracting and retaining talented staff and for demonstrating the bottom-line impact of HRM programs for work-family balance, addressing gender imbalance and emerging skills shortages.
Organisational stakeholders are increasingly interested in introducing work-family balance policies in their organisations. Evidence now links work-family imbalance to reduced health and well-being among individuals and families. Family-friendly policies in the workplace are linked to improved organisational outcomes in employee turnover and organisational citizenship behaviour. Work-family balance has become an important part of developing of new HRM policies, programs, or systems.
Opening the issue, Professor Steven AY Poelmans (IESE Business School, Barcelona) is asked:
The research presented in six articles in this special issue of the Journal of Management and Organisation (ISBN 978-0-9775242-2-8) contributes useful information to both practitioners engaged in implementing work-family balance initiatives and to work-family balance researchers engaged in extending the frontiers of knowledge within this dynamic topic.
EDITORIAL - Achieving work-life balance - Thomas Kalliath and Paula Brough
EXPERT COMMENTARY - Achieving work-life balance: current theoretical and practice issues - Steven AY Poelmans in conversation with Thomas Kalliath
and Paula Brough
Bridging the research-practice gap: Developing a measurement framework for work-life initiatives - E Anne Bardoel, Helen De Cieri and Susan Mayson
Work and family policy: Spoilt for choice or spoilt by choice? - Tanya Bretherton
Work-life balance or work-life alignment? A test of the importance of work-life balance for employee engagement and intention to stay in organisations - Louise P Parkes and Peter H Langford
Is entrepreneurship the answer to achieving work-family balance? - Jodyanne Kirkwood and Beth Tootell
Influences on the provision of work-life benefits: Management and employee perspectives - Jacqui Abbott and Helen De Cieri
Work-life balance: A review of the meaning of the balance construct - Thomas Kalliath and Paula Brough