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The recent government response to the Consultation on Modern Workplaces proposes revisions to the current administration and concept of parental leave alongside extending the right to request flexible working to other employees. These proposals in many ways reflect the package of rights available in Sweden. While the experience in Sweden suggests that this may encourage greater utilisation of parental leave, and in particular, increase fathers' uptake of such rights, it is unlikely to fundamentally challenge their underpinning gendered nature. In this paper it is argued that instead of focusing on re-branding the current package of rights, the legislation should instead re-envision the concept of the family. The traditional male breadwinner and dual breadwinner families have been the typical focus of these rights, so this approach will be critically contrasted with a focus on a wider understanding of the family encompassing intergenerational, multi-household and other atypical family care models. It is argued that such an approach may offer a more appropriate understanding of the work-family conflict which better addresses the cmpeting needs of working carers and atypical family forms.

ABSTRACTThis research provides a conceptual framework—based on the stem family concept—with which to explore the cyclical nature of return migration to Eastern Kentucky. A generalized six‐phase migration model is developed within a stem family/diffusion context to explain how the socioeconomic characteristics of return migrants have varied in response to economic changes outside Appalachia. The role of awareness space on channeling migration flows is also examined.Responses from 119 households in Laurel, Pike, and Powell counties, Kentucky, are used to test hypotheses associated with the general model. The survey results support the continued existence of extreme stem family forces within Eastern Kentucky. Most inmigrants are return migrants. Return migration motives continue to be more related to sociocultural factors than they are job‐related decisions. Most returnees are well below retirement age, and even the younger and more educated among these have a strong preference for remaining in Eastern Kentucky, although their historical tendency has been to move away when economic pulls are strong enough. Maps of return migrants'awareness spaces closely conform with past outmigration patterns. As awareness spaces have been shown to correspond with migrants'destination choices, the maps suggest that future outmigrants from Eastern Kentucky will continue to bias their destination choices more toward the North than the South.

One method an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) can apply to reduce development and manufacturing costs is family concept design: each product family member is designed fora different design point, but a significant amount of components is shared among the family members. In this case, a trade-off exists between member performance and commonality. In the design of complex systems, often many different architectures are possible, and the design space is too large to explore exhaustively. In this work, we present an application of a new architecture optimization method to the design of a family of passenger transport jets, with a focus on the sizing of the Environmental Control System (ECS) and Flight Control System (FCS).The architecture design space is modeled using the Architecture Design Space Graph (ADSG),a novel method for constructing model-based system architecture optimization problems. Deci-sions are extracted and the multi-objective optimization problem is automatically formulated.Objectives used are commonality, representing acquisition costs, and fuel burn, representing apart of operation costs. These metrics are evaluated using a cross-organizational collaborative multidisciplinary analysis toolchain, and the resulting Multidisciplinary Design Optimization(MDO) problem is solved using a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm. The results show that the trade-off between commonality and fuel burn is only present above a certain commonality level. ; The research presented in this paper has been performed in the framework of the AGILE 4.0 project (Towards Cyber-physical Collaborative Aircraft Development) and has received funding from the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement n°815122.

This article presents the concept of family governance based on the experience gained in the Roleski firm (the Constitution of Roleski family firm established in 2010) and the Łapaj firm (the Inheritance Statute of the Łapaj Group, 2011). The family governance has evolved from the corporate governance by taking into account the specific interaction of a family with a firm which manifests itself mainly in respecting family values. Based on experiences gained in both firms the process of building family governance was presented. It may be used by other family firms in implementing similar solutions that may help them to maintain the long-lasting development.

Sociology Reference Guide: The Concepts of Family Dynamic -- Contents -- Introduction -- Family Structures -- Balancing Work & -- Family -- Family Gender Roles -- Multiracial Families -- Alternative Family Structures -- Multigenerational Families -- The Single-Parent Household -- Marriage Patterns -- Residential Patterns -- International Adoption -- Family & -- Relationships: Child Abuse -- Family Functions: Social-Conflict Analysis -- Family Functions: A Structural-Functional Analysis -- Family Functions: Symbolic Interactionism -- Feminist Theories of the Family -- Patterns of Descent & -- Inheritance.

International audience ; While Lukes' view of power as an 'essentially contested concept' is a move in the right direction, it does not go far enough because it falls short of arguing for a plural view of power. Power constitutes a 'family resemblance concept', with family members forming complex relationships within overlapping language games. Members include, among others: and . This argument does not entail relativism or that 'anything goes', as all usages have to be justified as 'conceptual tools', whereby pragmatic criteria of usefulness, rather than essence, define better or worse usage. When moving language games, the relationship between signifier and referent changes, which leads to confusion, unless the family resemblance nature of power is understood. In the literature, the most significant confusion has taken place between sociological analytic and normative political theory language games.