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Manag Commun Q ; 31(2): 194-229, 2017 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29708121

ABSTRACT

The Netherlands is characterized by extensive national work-life regulations relative to the United States. Yet, Dutch employees do not always take advantage of existing work-life policies. Individual and focus group interviews with employees and managers in three (public and private) Dutch organizations identified how employee and managerial communication contributed to acquired rules concerning work-life policies and the interpretation of allocative and authoritative resources for policy enactment. Analyses revealed differences in employees' and managers' resistance to policy, the binds and dilemmas experienced, and the coordination of agreements and actions to complete workloads. There are also differences between public and private contexts in the enactment of national and organizational policies, revealing how national (e.g., gender) and organizational (e.g., concertive control) mechanisms play out in employee and managerial communication that determine the use of work-life policies.

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Soc Polit ; 18(2): 300-29, 2011.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21966700

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Managers are key actors shaping employees' capabilities to utilize work­life policies. However, most research on managers' implementation of these policies has been conducted in liberal welfare states and ignores the impact of institutional context. In this study, we situate managers within specific workplace and national layers of context. We investigated how managers in financial organizations in the Netherlands, UK, and Slovenia talk about the utilization of work­life policies. Managers' discourses stressed disruption and dependency considerations in these case studies, as in the US research. However, a further management discourse of the moral case or right thing to do also emerged. The lack of resources for replacing staff on leave creates disruption and reduces managers capability to support the use of work­life policies, even when they are statutory or if managers are inclined be supportive (dependency or moral argument). This is likely to impact on parents' capabilities.


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Employment , Family Health , Job Satisfaction , Public Policy , Employment/economics , Employment/history , Employment/legislation & jurisprudence , Employment/psychology , Family/ethnology , Family/history , Family/psychology , Family Health/ethnology , History, 20th Century , History, 21st Century , Netherlands/ethnology , Public Policy/economics , Public Policy/history , Public Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Slovenia/ethnology , United Kingdom/ethnology
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