Search for dissertations about: "work-family"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 30 swedish dissertations containing the word work-family.

2. 1. Toward a Working Life. Solving the work-family dilemma

   Author : Karin Allard; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parental leave; Swedish family policy; work-family conflict; work-personal life harmoniation; flexible working arrangements; organizational culture;

   Abstract : This thesis aims at identifying factors important in employees’ strive toward combining work and family in a satisfying way. The thesis relies on four papers that focus on the use of parental leave, experiences of work-family conflict and experiences of work-personal life harmonization. READ MORE

4. 2. Experiencing work/non-work : Theorising individuals’ process of integrating and segmenting work, family, social and private

   Author : Jean-Charles Languilaire; Tomas Müllern; Mikael Nordenmark; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; work non-work; middle-manager; France; life domains; work-life field; boundary perspective; individuals work non-work experiences;

   Abstract : The relationships between work and personal life have been on the public, business, and research agenda for about 35 years. Perspectives on these relationships have shifted from a work-family to work-life or work-personal life focus, from a conflict to a balance or enrichment view and, finally, from a segmentation to an integration perspective. READ MORE

5. 3. Conflict and concord in work and family : Family policies and individuals' subjective experiences

   Author : Ida Öun; Stefan Svallfors; Maria Charles; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Work-family conflict; role expansion; family policy; gender; class; dual-earner families; household work; perceptions of fairness;

   Abstract : Background This thesis explores the relationship between individuals’ subjective experiences and the welfare state setting. The research questions in focus deal with the outcomes of women’s and men’s increasing dual roles in work and family in contemporary welfare states. READ MORE

6. 4. Earning, caring, and the quest for sustainable societies : Toward stable evolution?

   Author : Pernilla Tunberger; Joakim Palme; Christina Bergqvist; Kimberly Morgan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; work family reconciliation; family policy; labor market liberalization; flexicurity; gender; equality; social policy; institutional change; institutional analysis; feminist institutionalism; multiple equilibria; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : This thesis studies changing conditions for earning and caring in Italy and Sweden, two cases out of a population of European welfare states facing similar challenges and processes of labor market liberalization affecting conditions for earning, but also for caring. Focus is on how such processes of change affect individual living conditions for earning and caring, as well as on how societies change as a result of changing individual living conditions. READ MORE

7. 5. Sharing & Caring. Division of parental leave from a psychological perspective

   Author : Monica Lidbeck; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; parental leave; coparenting; couple relationship; equality; family life; father involvement; parenting; parenting stress; work-family balance;

   Abstract : Parents’ preconditions for early parenting vary depending on social and cultural contexts. This thesis provides a psychological perspective on parenting and family life within the context of parental leave in Sweden, framed by Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development. READ MORE