Family-friendly research and workplace initiative announced

Are Family-friendly Workplace Practices a Valuable Firm Resource?

We study the determinants and consequences of family-friendly workplace practices (FFWP) using a sample of over 450 manufacturing firms in Germany, France, U.K., and U.S. We find a positive correlation between firm productivity and FFWP. This association disappears, however, once we control for a measure of the quality of management practices. We further find that firms with a higher proportion...

Family Planning - friendly Health facility Initiative to promote contraceptive utilization.

Address for correspondence: Dr Moazzam Ali, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Email: [email protected] Despite extensive global efforts and investment to reduce the problem, maternal mortality remains high in many lowand middle-income countries.1 About 225 million women in lowand middle-income countries are thoug...

Family-friendly science.

tion. I defended my thesis with spit up on my blouse while my 8-monthold daughter waited in the hallway with a babysitter. I lugged her to field sites, carrying her on my back while wading into ponds to collect data on frog populations. But over time, this approach wore me out. I was both disappointed in myself for not being productive enough in my research and frustrated that I wasn’t spending...

patient safety friendly hospital initiative: does it work in iran?

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Examining Family Stress: Theory and Research