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This book provides the first compact knowledge base on diversity & inclusion (D&I) targets in the UK screen industries. Drawing on new, in-depth industry research and progressive theoretical voices, the book will help readers understand what D&I targets are and what they could be in the future.

The book explains different types of D&I targets, how D&I targets are currently used and how they might be developed to strategically drive inclusion. D&I targets are an increasingly common feature of the screen industries, but there is little evidence and guidance on how to use them well. This book addresses that gap. The book offers, for the first time, a unifying terminology for D&I target setting in the UK screen industries, including for transorganisational D&I targets (targets set by one organisation for another). It is based on a cross-industry review of D&I target setting in the UK screen industries, using evidence from industry and academic research.

Providing a unique knowledge base on diversity & inclusion targets in the UK screen industries, this book will be of value to researchers, industry experts, practitioners, policy makers, campaigners and anyone who needs to understand D&I targets – to advise on them, to set and achieve them and to advocate for their effective, inclusive use.

Research on creative work typically focuses either on precarious work and employment or on creative workers' dedication to their work and profession. The account of UK broadcaster and writer Charlotte presented in this article bridges these two foci. Charlotte talks about finding work in the cultural industry she loves, moulding a portfolio of jobs into a coherent creative career, and being a woman and working mother in broadcasting and media. Her account gives rich insight into how creative workers exercise individual agency in the face of their industries' structural constraints and how they pursue careers both because of and in spite of what the cultural and creative industries offer.

The articulation of work and life, cast as work-life balance, has become a key feature of much current government, practitioner and academic debate. The main message of this debate is the need for "good work-life balance". However, the debate and subsequent policy are too often based on assumptions about work and life derived from blunt readings of empirical data or misconceptions about employee attitudes to work and life. What is required therefore is analysis that explores the back-story to work-life balance debate as well as the operation of work-life balance policies. Compiling critical re

Out of balance or just out of bounds? : analysing the relationship between work and life / Chris Warhurst, Doris Ruth Eikhof, and Axel Haunschild -- Work-life outcomes in Australia : concepts, outcomes and policy / Barbara Pocock, Natalie Skinner and Philippa Williams -- Work-life balance : three terms in search of a definition / John MacInnes -- The boundary problem in work-life balance studies : theorising the total responsibility burden / Paul Ransome -- On the edge of the time bind : time and market culture / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- What makes the home boundary porous? : the influence of work characteristics on the permeability of the home domain / Rozemarijn de Man, Jeanne de Bruijn and Sandra Groeneveld -- Work relations and the multiple dimensions of the work-life boundary : hairstyling at home / Rachel Lara Cohen -- Getting the job done : the impact of employees' conception of work on work-life balance / Anne Bøgh Fangel and Stinne Aaløkke -- Occupation matters--blurring work-life boundaries in mobile care and the media industry / Annette Henninger and Ulrike Papouschek -- Re-establishing boundaries in home-based telework / Camilla Kylin and Jan Ch. Karlsson -- Frustrated ambitions : the reality of balancing work and life for call centre employees / Jeff Hyman and Abigail Marks -- Recreational use or performance enhancing? : doping regulation and professional sport / Tilda Khoshaba

A satisfactory and healthy integration of work with other life domains is one of the key challenges of modern society. Work-life balance and work-life integration have become focal points of today's human resource management practice and theory. Professionals who have been described as 'extreme workers' regarding their work hours and engagement are under particular pressure to balance work and 'the rest of life'. This collection maps the increasingly extensive discussion of work-life issues for professionals and discusses key aspects in depth. What is work-life integration? What are the specific challenges for professionals? How do they manage their blurred work-life boundaries? How can companies intervene? Internationally leading authors discuss antecedents and individual and organizational outcomes of work-life integration, gender-specific perspectives and challenges as well as the use and usefulness of corporate work-life balance initiatives. In five sections distinguished researchers from across the world present experiences and research findings to provide a compendium of academic and applied research on the work-life integration of professionals. Cutting-edge research and novel theoretical perspectives make this collection a source of knowledge and inspiration for academic and business audiences interested in work-life integration issues in general and in the case of professionals in particular.