Suchergebnisse

Introduction. Fathers in work organizations : introduction and overview / Brigitte Liebig and Mechtild Oechsle -- Life conduct, strategies and capabilities. Work organizations and fathers' lifestyles : constraints and capabilities / Annette von Alemann, Sandra Beaufaÿs and Mechtild Oechsle -- Devoted workers, breadwinning fathers : the case of executive men in the United States / Mary Blair-Loy and Stacy J. Williams -- Fathers' parental leave and work-family division in Norwegian elite professions / Sigtona Halrynjo and Selma Therese Lyng -- Changing fatherhood? The significance of parental leave for work organizations and couples / Benjamin Neumann and Michael Meuser -- Cultures, rationalities and management. Ambivalent benevolence : the instrumental rationality of father-friendly policies in Swiss organizations / Brigitte Liebig and Christian Kron -- Fatherhood in transition : from standard to precarious archetypes in Italian contemporary work organizations / Annalisa Murgia and Barbara Poggio -- Of ikumen and ikuboss : an inquiry into Japan's new fathers as consumers, employees and managers / Christoph Schimkowsky and Florian Kohlbacher -- Policies and politics of fatherhood. Constructing male employees as carers through the Norwegian fathers' quota / Elin Kvande and Berit Brandth -- The "daddy months" in the German fatherhood regime : a step towards an equal share of work and care? / Johanna Possinger -- Reconciliation : the different political goals of organizations, governments and lobbies for fathers and children in Germany / Stephan Häyng -- Issues and challenges in research. Research on work and family : some issues and challenges / Suzan Lewis and Bianca Stumbitz.

This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they assert a claim for active fatherhood, and with what kind of barriers are they confronted? Secondly, capabilities of fathers are addressed: Which is their possible scope of action, and which factors lead to differences in capabilities at the workplace? Finally, the book analyzes the meaning of organizational rationalities, and the effects of policies and programs on change and organizational learning with respect to fatherhood.