The UK has operated a lightly regulated approach to help employees balance their work and domestic obligations, an which employers have welcomed they Government consider be successful. On the basis of empirical studies this paper challenges these assumptions outcomes. Apart from definitional difficulties, seven major problems associated with current practice over work‐life are identified. first problem concerns unevenness adoption across different sectors organisations. second is lack...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the impact gendered media representations entrepreneurs may have on reality female entrepreneurship. It analyses representation women in a ' s magazine. Media influence, firstly, whether perceive entrepreneurship as desirable and attainable, thus strength direction their entrepreneurial aspirations. Secondly, shape how key stakeholders such bankers or clients view interact with business owners, thereby impacting entrepreneurs’ relations...

Using structural equation modelling, this article examines the hypothesis that employees can learn about democracy through employee participation in workplace decision-making, thus resulting more positive attitudes toward wider political arena. The research finds is strongly positively associated with increased interest politics and pro-democracy affect. This result holds true even when controlling for reverse causality confounding influence of trade union membership. suggests work have an...

Using a sample of final year undergraduates, this article examines how HRM students construct sense professional identity over the course their degree. While students' original decision to enter HR rarely altered at university, expectations what 'doing HRM' constituted sometimes changed radically from need fit core values with occupational and learning experiences. The emergence different ways achieving yielded several types identity. implications fragmenting student identities for...

Employee-owned companies (EOCs) are a growing sector of the UK economy and yet research remains divided on their impact effectiveness. While has focused links between ownership form organisational performance, this article investigates whether distinctive ‘economic democracy skills’ can be identified. The findings reveal that economic skills in EOCs comprise formal business-owner – termed softer socioemotional necessary for effective democratic functioning, which labelled skills. These...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to assess the influence different forms organisational representation on provision work‐life balance employment policies. Design/methodology/approach uses on‐site semi‐structured interviews with employees, HR and line managers trade union representatives in four case studies as well survey responses from a total 17 institutions financial services sector. Findings Employees do issues sector, initiatives had greater breadth, codification quality where...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically explore media representations opting-out and how these present particular professional identities as appropriate career choices for women. Through an examination a UK women's magazine the looks at in favour work based on traditionally female housewifery skills attributes communicated justified texts. Design/methodology/approach adopts social identity approach qualitative content analysis 17 consecutive monthly features. Findings While...

While much of the literature on teamworking has become focused employer-driven design work teams, this article casts a critical eye employee-driven workgroups through examination selfselected and autonomous employee group. The evidence from case study suggests that groupworking can result in quest for homogenization, strong informal controls members’ behaviours, where these operate covert confiict expressions, mediated by environment. to emerge indicates some suggested positive impacts...

Theoretically informed by the degeneration thesis and explored through lens of Birchall's tripartite concept ownership, control benefit, this paper investigates resilience employee-owned businesses during pandemic.The originality lies in novel incorporation hybrid EOBs, disbenefit (in form debt burden), length employee ownership to model.Our findings indicate that firms with longer-standing are characterised lower levels burden tend exhibit better economic resilience.Higher on other hand,...