Policies and organizational cultures that facilitate fathers’ involvement in care
Abstract
Most studies on work life balance (WLB) assume that this challenge concerns basically women. This article studies the support and difficulties, that fathers involved with the care of their children encounter at work when trying to balance work and family life. We explore the following questions: (a) why fathers prefer some job adaptations over others; (b) how organizational cultures influence work life balance of involved fathers; and (c) what differences exist according to type and size of job sectors. We have chosen a qualitative methodology based on discussion groups with involved fathers employed in the public sector, as well as large and small companies. Our results show that the design of policies and the organizational cultures interact and influence fathers WLB, having found that newly created small companies sometimes offer better WLB conditions than larger ones.
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