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Family-friendly management: testing the various perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Stephen Wood
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Abstract

The emphasis in recent research on family-friendly practices has been on the determinants of their use rather than on the nature of this usage. Yet within the institutional-based organisational adaptation perspective, adopted in recent research, the existence of a family-friendly management cannot be automatically assumed from the use of certain practices. This article explores through latent trait analysis whether there is any pattern to the use of family-friendly practices, and then, having found there is, uses regression analysis to assess the determinants of family-friendly management.

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Research Articles
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 168 , April 1999 , pp. 99 - 116
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Copyright © 1999 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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Comments should be addressed to the author at the Department of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: 0171 955 7033, fax: 0171 955 7424, e-mail: s.j.wood@lse.ac.uk. I am extremely grateful to David Bartholomew, Shirley Dex, John Evans, and Jane Galbraith for their comments on an earlier draft of this article, to Paul Osterman for providing me with the data set on which the analysis is based and to Irini Moustaki for conducting the latent variable analysis for mixed variables.

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