Combining employment with unpaid caregiving: a survey on the knowledge and use of work policies in two companies in The Netherlands
The number of informal caregivers who combine employment with unpaid care for an ill/disabled family acquaintance is growing. Employers are challenged to create conditions for a work-home balance for their caring employees. We identified the nature of formal leave policies and informal means of organizational support for employed carers in two Dutch companies. In 2011 we distributed a digital questionnaire among all employees in one health care and one financial company. Compared to their non-caring colleagues, in both companies the caring employees only make more use of formal leave arrangeme... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Boumans , N & Dorant , E 2015 , ' Combining employment with unpaid caregiving: a survey on the knowledge and use of work policies in two companies in The Netherlands ' , International Journal of Human Resource Studies , vol. 5 , no. 3 , pp. 191-213 . https://doi.org/10.5296/ijhrs.v5i3.7396 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26821757 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/9180d954-2e66-4d9b-8dcd-7bb9ea7d911f |