Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

Which Organizational Forms of Labour

Could Grant Mutual Benefits?

Portuguese Situation

Which Organizational Forms of Labour

Could Grant Mutual Benefits?

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The Percentage of women that comprise the labour force has increase in Europe

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Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The Percentage of women that comprise the labour force has increase in Europe and USA.

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Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

Concurrently the structure of the family has changed:

• Dual career marriages make-up;

• Women alone make-up too.

Organizations have introduced several types of work-family programs to help employees deal with work and family interface.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The basic assumption is that, if an organization helps employees balance work and family, organizations will be better able to attract, retain, and extract increases in productivity from current employees.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The work-family programs fall into three categories:

• Dependent care

• Family leave

• Flexible working hours and arrangements

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The work-family programs fall into three categories:

• Dependent care, namely childcare concerns (off-site resources, emergency childcare, inter-organizational consortia, referral services and voucher programs).

These programs are not frequently adopted in Portugal. Exclusively big and traditional companies have chid care centres and some multinational company have some voucher programs.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The work-family programs fall into three categories:

• Dependent care

• Family leave, namely maternity leave, paid and unpaid, extend leave and the like.

Portugal has a good legislation in this subject. Maternity leave comprise 120 paydays for mother or

father and the possibility of partial timework for 1 year. Child illness assistance comprise 30 paydays by year,

family illness assistance comprise 15 paydays by year.

Though in the large majority of family is the mother that use maternity leaves, child or family illness assistance and don’t use the possibility of partial timework.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The work-family programs fall into three categories:

• Dependent care

• Family leave

• Flexible working hours and arrangements such as telecommuting, job sharing and alternative workweeks.

In Portugal flexible working hours are frequently but flexible working arrangements are not frequently adopted.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The adoption of work-family programs as a means of reducing work-family conflict and achieving firm benefits.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The adoption of work-family programs as a means of reducing work-family conflict and achieving firm benefits.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The adoption of work-family programs as a means of reducing work-family conflict and achieving firm benefits.

Flexible programs decrease withdrawal behaviours such as tardiness and absenteeism, increase job satisfaction, commitment, job involvement and employee loyalty.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The adoption of work-family programs as a means of reducing work-family conflict and achieving firm benefits.

Flexible programs decrease withdrawal behaviours such as tardiness and absenteeism, increase job satisfaction, commitment, job involvement and employee loyalty.

Dependent care programs have been more consistently related with turnover.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

The adoption of work-family programs as a means of reducing work-family conflict and achieving firm benefits.

Flexible programs decrease withdrawal behaviours such as tardiness and absenteeism, increase job satisfaction, commitment, job involvement and employee loyalty.

Dependent care programs have been more consistently related with turnover.

Maternity leave and other family-related leaves policies were significantly related to affective commitment, as well as lower intentions to turnover.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

namely a supervisory support to the work-family programs adoption and encouraging managers to take the first step within their work group and use the policy that will signal to other employees the acceptability of the program.

Develop a supportive climate and culture

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

Clearly, the extend to which the culture or managers support work-family practices is crucial to the efficiency gains in the organizations, namely to maximize firm performance in response to a work-family program.

Develop a supportive climate and culture

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

In Portugal we think that we have a good legislation but a bad culture.

Develop a supportive climate and culture

We have some good work-family programs but we haven’t a supportive culture or managers that promote the adoption of these programs.

Which Organizational Forms of Labour Could Grant Mutual Benefits

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

Develop a supportive climate and culture

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary:

Develop a supportive climate and culture

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“Be more, be better.”

However for achieve these benefits it is necessary

mjchambel@fpce.ul.pt