The New Ideal Worker: Organizations Between Work-Life Balance, Gender and Leadership (Contributions to Management Science)

Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are “ideal workers”. However, this assumption has negative consequences for employees, their families and, more interestingly, for their organizations. This book provides a wealth of empirical evidence from around the globe, as well as innovative conceptual frameworks, to help practitioners and researchers alike to go beyond the classic notion of the “ideal worker” and to rethink what companies actually need from their employees. As it demonstrates, doing so will be beneficial for countless men and women, and for society at large. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Mireia las Heras Maestro, Nuria Chinchilla Albiol, Marc Grau Grau)....Pages 3-7 Hope for the (New) Ideal Worker: Resolving the Flexibility-Availability Paradox (Jody A. Worley, Kathrine J. Gutierrez)....Pages 9-23 Fathers’ Working Times in Germany: The Role of the Ideal Worker Norm in the Context of Other Cultural and Structural Workplace Conditions (Janine Bernhardt, Mareike Buenning)....Pages 25-48 A Closer Look to Millennials in Chile: How They Perceive the New i-deal Worker (Maria José Bosch, Tamara Hernández)....Pages 49-72 Ideal Organizations for the New Ideal Workers: Exploring the Role of Life-Friendly Work Practices (Uthpala Senarathne Tennakoon)....Pages 73-91 Pondering an Ideal Worker in Academia and Consideration of a ‘New’ Normal of Faculty Work-Life (Kathrine J. Gutierrez, Jody A. Worley)....Pages 93-103 Work Values Hierarchies: What Motivates Workers (Ana Machado)....Pages 105-123 The New Ideal Worker Is a Super Navigator (Camilla Kring)....Pages 125-135 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 The Use of Conjoint Analysis in Revealing Preferences for Hiring: The Gender Bias Effect (María José Bosch, David Kimber, Ricardo Leiva)....Pages 139-160 Women’s Re-entry into Workforce: Experiences from India (Pavni Kaushiva, Chetan Joshi)....Pages 161-180 Men’s Work-Life Balance: A Case-Study of UK Police Force (Kritika Bharadwaj)....Pages 181-202 Opening the “Black Box”: Factors Affecting Women’s Journey to Senior Management Positions—A Literature Review (Erica Salvaj, Katherina Kuschel)....Pages 203-222 Antecedents and Outcomes of Work-Family Conflict and Work-Family Enrichment: A Longitudinal, Multilevel, and Multimethod Study (Pedro Hollanda)....Pages 223-249 An Examination of the Impact of Macro Context on Women CEOs in the Hospitality Industry (Sowon Kim, Giuliano Bianchi, Maria José Bosch)....Pages 251-265