Family-friendly Management Research Articles

A study on the management innovation and military application of Yuhan-Kimberly

With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution and rising competition, the survival environment of companies has become difficult to predict. Consequently, changes and innovations to gain a competitive edge have become essential for modern society. In this paper, the management innovation techniques and contents were examined through the case of re-engineering of Yuhan Kimberly, exploring the direction of development and the way to apply them nationally. Yuhan-Kimberly implemented people-centered management, such as improving the working environment, operating the lifelong learning system, introducing smart work and family-friendly management; it also strengthened social enterprise activities that had continued since the early days of its establishment, thereby, realizing social enterprise image integration. Consequently, it solidified its status as a social enterprise through the increase in corporate profits, the selection of respected companies, and the commendation of government agencies. Based on the case of Yuhan-Kimberly’s innovation, the government proposed work-life balance and family-friendly management, the transformation of information systems, the improvement of organizational culture, and the promotion of ethical management and social contribution activities. This suggests that the military should aim to achieve its basic goals, restore public trust, and establish its role in the changing security environment.

중소기업 근로자의 일·생활 균형을 위한 가족친화경영 우수사례연구

This qualitative case study focuses on five small and medium-sized enterprises which have put family-friendly management into successful practice. Through in-depth unstructured interviews with five human resources managers and ten employees , we describe each firm’s approach to work-life balance including working hour reductions, breaks, work flexibility, and parental leave to build an overall picture. We also discuss the four key factors of the CEO’s role; democratic communication between all staff, the usefulness of family-friendly certification as a starting point; and governmental support for promoting work-life balance at small and medium-sized enterprises. Finally, we suggest three political implications of governmental support, namely CEO education, changing the criteria of family-friendly certification to redefine working hours and work flexibility, and incentives specifically for small to medium-sized enterprises.

The Effects of Hospitals' Family Friendly Management on Married Female Nurses' Retention Intention: Focused on the Mediating Effects of Work-Family Interface

This study examined the effect of hospitals' family-friendly management on married female nurses' retention intention. The focus was the mediating effects of the work-family interface (work-family conflict, work-family enrichment and work-family balance). This study was a cross-sectional study. The participants were 307 nurses working at five public and five private hospitals with more than 200 beds in Seoul. Data were collected using structured questionnaires from September 10 to September 17, 2018 and analyzed with SPSS 24.0. Data were analyzed using an independent t-test, a one-way ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and multiple regression following the Baron and Kenny method and Sobel test for mediation. There were significant correlations among family-friendly management, the work-family interface, and retention intention. Work-family conflict showed a partial mediating effect on the relationship between family-friendly management and retention intention. Work-family enrichment showed a partial mediating effect on the relationship between family-friendly management and retention intention. Work-family balance showed a partial mediating effect on the relationship between family-friendly management and retention intention. These findings indicate that both hospitals' family-friendly management and nurses' work-family interface are important factors associated with nurses' retention intention. Therefore, hospitals should actively implement family-friendly management for nurses and establish strategies to enhance nurses' work-family interface for effective human resource management.

Perceptions of Family-friendly Management and Family-friendly Company Certification in Small and Medium Size Business

Perceptions of Family-friendly Management and Family-friendly Company Certification in Small and Medium Size Business

Work–family conflict and enrichment from the perspective of psychosocial resources: Comparing Finnish healthcare workers by working schedules

We examined work–family conflict (WFC) and work–family enrichment (WFE) by comparing Finnish nurses, working dayshifts (non-shiftworkers, n = 874) and non-dayshifts. The non-dayshift employees worked either two different dayshifts (2-shiftworkers, n = 490) or three different shifts including nightshifts (3-shiftworkers, n = 270). Specifically, we investigated whether different resources, i.e. job control, managers' work–family support, co-workers' work–family support, control at home, personal coping strategies, and schedule satisfaction, predicted differently WFC and WFE in these three groups. Results showed that lower managers' work–family support predicted higher WFC only among 3-shiftworkers, whereas lower co-workers' support associated with increased WFC only in non-shiftworkers. In addition, shiftworkers reported higher WFC than non-shiftworkers. However, the level of WFE did not vary by schedule types. Moreover, the predictors of WFE varied only very little across schedule types. Shiftwork organizations should pay more attention to family–friendly management in order to reduce WFC among shiftworkers.

Effect of Family-Friendly Management on the Job Satisfaction of Female Workers

Effect of Family-Friendly Management on the Job Satisfaction of Female Workers

가족친화경영 수준의 결정요인 분석

본 연구는 저출산 문제의 극복을 위한 정책으로 추진되고 있는 가족친화경영의 현황을 살펴보고 가족친화경영수준의 결정요인을 살펴보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 한국기업지배구조원의 ESG 평가모형에서 가족친화경영과 관련된 평가지표 및 평가결과를 활용하여 분석을 수행하였다. 분석결과 기업규모가 크고 부채비율이 낮으며 기업가치가 높은 기업일수록 가족친화경영에 적극적인 것으로 나타났으며 가족친화적 제도운영에 있어서는 종업원이나 정규직 직원 중 여성비율이 낮을수록 높게 나타나 기존의 연구와 다르게 나타났다. 그밖에 최대주주지분율이 높을수록 평가점수가 낮게 나타났다. 이러한 결과들은 우리나라 상장기업들이 아직까지 여성근로자의 고용규모에 비해 가족친화적 제도의 운영이 부족하며 가족친화경영의 활성화를 위해서는 최고경영진의 관심과 지원이 필수적이나 아직까지 우리 기업의 최대주주들은 이에 대해 적극적이지 않다는 의미로 해석된다. In this study, we investigate the current status of family friendly management and determinants of its level. We choose measures about family friendly management and use their results from ESG evaluation model by Korea Corporate Governance Service. We find that firms with larger size, lower leverage and higher firm value are more family friendly. And in contrast to previous studies, firms are more family friendly when they have less women to total employees. But firms with higher largest shareholder holdings are less family friendly. These results show that listed firms in Korea should be more family friendly considering their level of woman employment. Also the interest and support from top management are needed for activating family friendly management, but largest shareholder of korean firms are not active yet.

Is Family-friendly Management Good for Firms? The Diffusion and Performance of Family-friendly Workplaces in South Korea

Using the Korea Workplace Panel Survey data, this study examines the extent of diffusion of family-friendly programmes in Korean workplaces and the effect the programmes have on organizational performance, including employee turnover, labour productivity, and labour—management relations, under the presence and moderation of high performance work systems (HPWS) practices. The diffusion of family-friendly management in Korean firms has been very limited in comparison with British workplaces, despite the Korean government’s policy efforts to promote greater work—family balance. Our analysis reveals that family-friendly programmes do not always benefit firms. Dependent care programmes are beneficial for organizational performance to a certain degree, whereas flexible work schedules are not effective in reducing turnover, exhibiting a negative effect on labour productivity. However, flextime practice in Korea differs to a certain extent from western countries, where employees are allowed to flexibly alter their working schedules to promote work—family integration. Furthermore, family-friendly programmes in Korea do not complement HPWS practices in the enhancement of organizational performance.

Family-friendly management, organizational performance and social legitimacy

Research on family-friendly practices has concentrated on the predictors of their use, particularly from the perspective of either institutional theory or the high involvement or commitment management vogue. This paper first shows how such perspectives can be used to generate hypotheses about the link between family-friendly management and organizational performance. Second, the paper reports research designed to test these, using data from a national representative sample of workplaces across the British economy, the Workplace Employment Relations Survey of 2004 (WERS2004). The results support the high commitment thesis that family-friendly management will strengthen the relationship between commitment and key economic outcomes, as the relationships between workforce commitment and productivity or quality are stronger in organizations when friendly management is high, which is consistent with social exchange theory. Family-friendly management is not, however, related to the human resource outcomes of labour turnover and absenteeism. Nor does the study find support for the argument that its use in conjunction with high involvement management enhances the performance effects of both. Equally, there is no support for the hypothesis from the institutional thesis that family-friendly management has positive effects on the legitimacy of the organization.

A test of work-to-family conflict mediation hypothesis for effects of family friendly management on organizational commitment and turnover intention

A test of work-to-family conflict mediation hypothesis for effects of family friendly management on organizational commitment and turnover intention

Family-friendly management: testing the various perspectives

The emphasis in recent research on family-friendly practices has been on the determinants of their use rather than on the nature of this usage. Yet within the institutional-based organisational adaptation perspective, adopted in recent research, the existence of a family-friendly management cannot be automatically assumed from the use of certain practices. This article explores through latent trait analysis whether there is any pattern to the use of family-friendly practices, and then, having found there is, uses regression analysis to assess the determinants of family-friendly management.