Family-friendly working: what a performance! An analysis of the relationship between the availability of family-friendly policies and establishment performance

Helen Gray

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Abstract: This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in almost all cases where there is a significant relationship between the use of a family-friendly practice and workplace performance, this relationship is positive. In addition, it appears that workplaces which offer an extensive range of family-friendly policies are much more likely to have above-average performance than those with no such practices. The paper moves on to consider whether employers offering policies which enable employees with families to maintain a full-time presence in the workplace e.g. a workplace nursery, have better performance than those which offer policies which result in reduced-visibility e.g. working from home, part-time work. The evidence from WERS98 suggests that this is indeed the case.

Keywords: Family -friendly; part-time; equality; business case. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J71 L10 M12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2002-05
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