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There is a link between work life balance culture and strategic competitive advantage
Bradley, Lisa M.; Royer, Susanne; Eckardt, Farida - 2008
This paper suggests a linkage between work-life balance culture and competitive advantage through commitment and firm-specific human resources. The paper argues that a workplace culture supportive of employees balancing their work and non-work lives leads to their commitment to their...
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Managers' work-life balance and health: the case of UK managers
Worrall, Les; Cooper, Cary L. - 2007
The paper explores the effects of organisational change on UK managers' perceptions of their organisation and on their well-being. Cost reduction is the prime driver for change and has been implemented using delayering, redundancy, downsizing and off-shoring often supported by culture change...
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Family-owned businesses : perspectives on Australian policy
Glassop, Linda; Graves, Chris - 2010
In 2008, a report was commissioned by the European Commission (EC) outlining various policy matters in the field of family business within the auspices of the European Union (EU). Family-owned businesses make a significant contribution to Australia's economic and social welfare. The EC report...
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APPROACHING TELEWORK SYSTEM BY ROMANIAN EMPLOYEES IN THE PANDEMIC CRISIS
Negrușa, Adina Letiția; Butoi, Elisabeta - 2022
Suddenly and unexpectedly, many workers had to change their work location to home during the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged at the end of 2019. Swiftly, the line between work and personal life got blurred and the home became a working and an educational place. These changes had a thumping impact...
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Los números de la regulación sobre igualdad: cuantificación de la actividad normativa sobre no discriminación en España y su relación con las brechas de género en el mercado de tra...
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.; Hospido, Laura; …
Public policies that aim to achieve gender equality, improve work-life balance or combat harassment may have economic consequences, for example, through changes in the labour supply of women or other groups. Although there may be an increase in social awareness of these problems, a separate...
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The numbers of equality regulation: quantifying regulatory activity on non-discrimination and its relationship with gender gaps in the labour market
Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S.; Hospido, Laura; …
Las políticas públicas orientadas a lograr la igualdad de género, permitir una mayor conciliación de las actividades profesionales con la vida privada o luchar contra el acoso pueden tener consecuencias económicas; por ejemplo, a través de cambios en la oferta laboral de las mujeres u...
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Personalmanagement in der Mongolei
Wagner, Dieter - 2005
Das Personalmanagement in der Mongolei bewegt sich zwischen Emanzipation und Transformation. Wird es weiter so vorangetrieben, kann es Vorbild für andere Entwicklungsländer werden.
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Learning, language and leadership : conduits to dynamic public service networks
Keast, Robyn L.; Mandell, Myrna - 2009
doing so, it proposes that learning, language and leadership, herein defined as the ‘3Ls’ represent critical mediating …
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Optimistic Managers & Their Influence on Productivity & Employee Engagement in a Technology Organization
Greenberg, Margaret H; Arakawa, Dana - 2006
manager. Furthermore, we hypothesize that optimistic managers embody positive leadership—employing a strengths-based approach …) organization, positive leadership correlated with employee optimism, engagement, and project performance. When we looked at a … data support the claim that positive leadership is correlated with employee engagement and performance, and further extends …
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The Ombudsman: Value of Expertise for Forecasting Decisions in Conflicts
Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - 2007
In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...
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