Expanding the Boundaries of Work-Family Research: A Vision for the Future [Hardcover]

With contributions from thirty authors from fifteen countries, this is a 'white book' for international work-family research and practice. The authors offer a bold look at the future and provide guidelines for future research, focusing on applied, international work-family research.List of Tables List of Figures PREFACE Nuria Chinchilla (IESE Business School) PREFACE Lotte Bailyn (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors INTRODUCTION Steven A.Y. Poelmans, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus & Mireia Las Heras PART I: WORK-LIFE POLICIES AND FLEXIBLE WORK ARRANGEMENTS IN ORGANIZATIONS Work-Family Policies: Linking National Contexts, Organizational Practice and People for Multi-level Change. Ellen Ernst Kossek  & Ariane Ollier-Malaterre Do Work-Family Policies Really 'Work'? Evidence from Indian Call Centres Sweta Rajan-Rankin & Mark Tomlinson PART II: WORK-LIFE CULTURE AND PRACTICES IN ORGANIZATIONS Deconstructing 'Family' 'Supportive' 'Cultures': A Vision for the Future Susan Lewis & Sweta Rajan-Rankin Organisational Subcultures and Family Supportive Culture in a Spanish Organization. Olena Stepanova PART III: Personal and professional careers and talent management Work-Family Research and Practice: What if the Whole Person Mattered? Elana Feldman & Douglas T. Hall Effects of Gender and Family on Earnings and Career Paths: A Cross-Cultural Study of Europe, the United States and Japan Nini Yang PART IV: Decision-making in a work-life context The Present and Future of Work-Family Decision-Making Steven Poelmans, Jeffrey Greenhaus & Olena Stepanova Sex, Gender, and Decisions at the Family-Work Interface. Gary Powell  & Jeffrey Greenhaus PART V: Coping and strategies for harmonizing work and life New Directions in Work-Family Coping Research Debra A. Major, Heather M. Lauzun & Meghan P. Jones Fairly Flexible: Preventing Perceptions of Unfairness in EnactmlÓÏ