{"id":354,"date":"2014-07-27T15:32:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/?p=354"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:40:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:40:24","slug":"national-context-in-work-life-research-a-multi-level-cross-national-analysis-of-the-adoption-of-workplace-work-life-arrangements-in-europe-den-dulk-et-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/national-context-in-work-life-research-a-multi-level-cross-national-analysis-of-the-adoption-of-workplace-work-life-arrangements-in-europe-den-dulk-et-al\/","title":{"rendered":"National context in work-life research: A multi-level cross-national analysis of the adoption of workplace work-life arrangements in Europe \u2013 Den Dulk et al."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article examines the interaction between nation-level and organization-level variables in the provision of flexible working arrangements (FWA).<br \/>\nIt finds that provision of FWA was positively associated with state support for combining work and family life. States where work assumed \u2018cultural centrality\u2019 were negatively associated with the provision of FWA.<br \/>\nPublic sector and large organizations were more sensitive to state support and the cultural centrality of work than smaller and private sector organisations. Organisations with a greater proportion of female employees were less sensitive to state support.<br \/>\nThe authors suggest that these findings demonstrate that organisational policies are affected by the national contexts in which they\u2019re embedded, though organisational sensitivity may differ.<br \/>\nDen Dulk, Laura; Groeneveld, Sandra; Ollier-Malaterre, Ariane; Valcour, Monique (2013) \u201cNational context in work-life research: A multi-level cross-national analysis of the adoption of workplace work-life arrangements in Europe\u201d European Management Journal, 31<br \/>\nAvailable at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0263237313000704\">http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0263237313000704<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article examines the interaction between nation-level and organization-level variables in the provision of flexible working arrangements (FWA). It finds that provision of FWA was positively associated with state support for combining work and family life. States where work assumed \u2018cultural centrality\u2019 were negatively associated with the provision of FWA. Public sector and large organizations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":989,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31,70,76,94,121,220,232,355],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic","tag-academic","tag-culture","tag-determinants","tag-europe","tag-flexible-work-arrangements","tag-national-context","tag-organisation","tag-work-life-balance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/989"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2734,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/2734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/waf-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}