Fathers in Work Organizations
Inequalities and Capabilities, Rationalities and Politics
1st Edition
Published on 24. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
253 pages
978-3-8474-0703-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they assert a claim for active fatherhood, and with what kind of barriers are they confronted? Secondly, capabilities of fathers are addressed: Which is their possible scope of action, who are relevant actors, what is the effect of policies and programs on change and organizational learning with respect to fatherhood?
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Persons
Prof. Dr. Brigitte Liebig is full professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, Switzerland. Prof. (em.) Dr. Mechtild Oechsle is full professor in the Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Content
Table of Contents: Introduction - Fathers in work organizations - Brigitte Liebig & Mechtild Oechsle; 2. Fathers in Organizations: Life Conduct, Strategies and Capabilities - Work organizations and fathers' everyday life conduct: constraints and capabilities - Annette von Alemann, Sandra Beaufays & Mechtild Oechsle; Devoted workers, breadwinning fathers: the case of executive men in the United States - Mary Blair-Loy & Stacy J. Williams; Fathers' parental leave and later work - family division in Norwegian elite professions - Sigtona Halrynjo & Selma Therese Lyng; Fathers in parental leave. Challenges and potentials in work organizations - Benjamin Neumann & Michael Meuser; 3. Fathers in Organizations: Cultures, Rationalities and Management - Ambivalent benevolence: The instrumental rationality of father-friendly policies in Swiss organizations - Brigitte Liebig & Christian Kron; Fatherhood in transition: From standard to precarious archetypes in Italian contemporary work organizations - Annalisa Murgia & Barbara Poggio; Of ikumen and ikuboss: An inquiry into Japan's new fathers as consumers, employees and managers - Christoph Schimkowsky & Florian Kohlbacher; 4. Policies and Politics of Fatherhood - Constructing male employees as carers through the Norwegian fathers' quota - Elin Kvande & Berit Brandth; The 'daddy months' in the German fatherhood regime - a step towards an equal share of work and care? - Johanna Possinger; Reconciliation - the different political goals of organizations, governments and lobbies for fathers and children in Germany - Stephan Hoyng; 5. Outlook - Research on work and family: some issues and challenges - Suzan Lewis & Bianca Stumbitz