THE CONDITIONS OF PARENTHOOD IN ORGANISATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON

• Authors: Krizkova Alena , Marikova Hana , Dudova Radka , Sloboda Zdenek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on organisations and the conditions for working parents in terms of combining work and care and how those conditions are set up and negotiated in organisations. The research draws on three case studies comparing pairs of companies active in the Czech Republic and in one of the following countries - Germany, France, and Sweden - in the field of engineering. The goal is to explore in depth the conditions that Czech working parents are faced with and that derive from the organisational processes and means and dynamics of negotiating conditions for working parents, and to compare them with the conditions in other countries and identify the sources of variability of these conditions. Important differences between a company's family-friendly practices in its home country and in its Czech branches are primarily determined by the differences in the way in which welfare regimes are set up in individual countries. In addition, the authors identify the following five main interlinked factors explaining the variability of family-friendly policies and practices in organisations: parental (maternity) ideologies, the organisational culture of non-discrimination and equal opportunities, the actors' activity in work relations, the role of trade unions in negotiations, and the given organisation's experience with employees-parents.

Keywords

EN

FAMILY-FRIENDLY POLICIES; GENDER; ORGANISATIONS; WORK

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 519-548
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Krizkova Alena

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Marikova Hana

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Dudova Radka

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Sloboda Zdenek

• Alena Krizkova, Sociologicky ustav AV CR, v.v.i., Jilska 1, Praha, 11000, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4723/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA067819