Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents’ return-to-work experience, the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this reality, give voice to new parents, and offer relief in the knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and, most importantly, how we can start to address them.

The book brings together a number of internationally recognized experts from research, practice, and policy to explore the issues and offer evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to cover topics such as equality, stereotypes, work-family conflict, training and development, and workplace culture, among others, whilst integrating research and policy, and illustrating learnings with case studies from parents and examples from countries that lead the way.

It will appeal to parents, researchers, and employers in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately, it will help develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully while maintaining their work-family well-being.

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Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents’ return-to-work experience, the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this reality, give voice to new parents, and offer relief in the knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and, most importantly, how we can start to address them.

The book brings together a number of internationally recognized experts from research, practice, and policy to explore the issues and offer evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to cover topics such as equality, stereotypes, work-family conflict, training and development, and workplace culture, among others, whilst integrating research and policy, and illustrating learnings with case studies from parents and examples from countries that lead the way.

It will appeal to parents, researchers, and employers in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately, it will help develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully while maintaining their work-family well-being.

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Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

Navigating the Return-to-Work Experience for New Parents: Maintaining Work-Family Well-Being

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Overview

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents’ return-to-work experience, the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the difficulties that parenthood poses for balancing the demands of a new family with the demands of work. It helps us understand this reality, give voice to new parents, and offer relief in the knowledge that we know a lot about these challenges and, most importantly, how we can start to address them.

The book brings together a number of internationally recognized experts from research, practice, and policy to explore the issues and offer evidence-based solutions around return-to-work after having children. It takes a balanced approach to theory and practice to cover topics such as equality, stereotypes, work-family conflict, training and development, and workplace culture, among others, whilst integrating research and policy, and illustrating learnings with case studies from parents and examples from countries that lead the way.

It will appeal to parents, researchers, and employers in any sector or economy across the world. Ultimately, it will help develop ways for new parents to re-engage with work successfully while maintaining their work-family well-being.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781000038842
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 02/18/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 180
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Maria Karanika-Murray is an Associate Professor in Occupational Health Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University. In her work she brings together different methodologies, disciplines, and stakeholders with the aim to understand the context and develop ways to support work-related health and well-being.at the Department of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University. Her work brings together different methodologies, disciplines, and stakeholders, with the aim to understand the context and develop ways to support work-related health and well-being.

Sir Cary Cooper, CBE, is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at ALLIANCE Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester, President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (HR professional body), Immediate Past President of the British Academy of Management, and President of the Institute of Welfare.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Ann Francke, Chartered Management Institute, London

Foreword

Laura Addati, International Labour Organization, Geneva

Chapter 1. IntroductionUnderstanding the return-to-work experience for parents: what is and what could be

Maria Karanika-Murray & Cary Cooper

Chapter 2. New Parents Navigating the Workplace: Pregnancy, Stereotype Threat, and Work-Family Conflict

Lindsey M. Lavaysse, Erica L. Bettac, & Tahira M. Probst

Chapter 3. Building the support network of new parents at work and outside

Helen Pluut & Sara De Hauw

Chapter 4. Practical strategies for work-family resources management in the return-to-work experiences of new parents

Angela Martin, Sarah Dawkins, Vanessa Miles, Sarah Cotton & Justine Alter

Chapter 5. Return to work for fathers: A group with specific needs?

Marc Grau-Grau

Chapter 6. Fathers and leave for parenting: how can we increase uptake?

Adrienne Burgess & Jeremy Davies

Chapter 7. Work-family integration and gender equality: How Nordic countries lead the way
Gayle Kaufman

Chapter 8. Career Progression: Left out of the Game?
Nina M. Junker, Alina S. Hernandez Bark & Jamie L. Gloor

Chapter 9. Career development after parenthood: choices, challenges and opportunities

Julia Yates

Chapter 10. Training and development for employees returning to work after parental leave

Joanna Yarker, Hans-Joachim Wolfram & Nina Mareen Junker

Chapter 11. Childcare options in France: Beyond the hypothetic free choices

Danielle Boyer & Claude Martin

Chapter 12. What can employers do? Creating an inclusive workplace that fosters work-family wellbeing

Hans van Dijk & Loes Meeussen

Chapter 13. Going beyond policies to ease parents back into work and rebalance roles: The importance of individualized-deals

Inés Martínez-Corts & J. Pablo Moreno-Beltrán

Chapter 14. What we have leanred and what we can do to support parents' return-to-work

Cary Cooper & Maria Karanika-Murray

Index

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