Quality of Life and Work in Europe: Theory, Practice and Policy

271 Pages·2011·1.547 MB·English

by  Margareta Bäck-Wiklund, Tanja van der Lippe, Laura den Dulk, Anneke Doorne-Huiskes (eds.)

Quality of Life and Work in Europe
Quality of Life and Work
in Europe
Theory, Practice and Policy
Editedby
Margareta Bäck-Wiklund
UniversityofGothenburg,Sweden
Tanja van der Lippe
UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands
Laura den Dulk
ErasmusUniversityRotterdam,theNetherlands
Anneke Doorne-Huiskes
UtrechtUniversity,theNetherlands
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Contents
ListofTablesandFigures vii
Acknowledgements x
Contributors xi
1 QualityofLifeandWorkinaChangingEurope 1
TanjavanderLippeandMargaretaBäck-Wiklund
Part I Context,TheoryandMethods
2 QualityofLifeandWorkinaChangingEurope:
ATheoreticalFramework 17
LauradenDulk,MargaretaBäck-Wiklund,SuzanLewis
andDorottyaRedai
3 TheInstitutionalContextoftheQualityofLife 32
SiykaKovacheva,AnnekeDoorne-HuiskesandTimoAnttila
4 DataandMethods 55
TanjavanderLippe,StefanSzücs,SonjaDrobniˇcand
LeilaBillquist
Part II EmpiricalResults
5 QualityofWorkandQualityofLifeofServiceSector
Workers:Cross-nationalVariationsinEightEuropean
Countries 77
PatrickPräg,MariadasDoresGuerreiro,JoukoNätti,Michael
BrookesandLauradenDulk
6 QualityofLifeandSatisfactionwiththeWork–lifeBalance 95
StefanSzücs,SonjaDrobniˇc,LauradenDulkandRoland
Verwiebe
7 VariationsinWork–lifeBalanceSatisfactionamongService
SectorEmployees 118
BarbaraBeham,DavidEtheringtonandEduardoRodrigues
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8 CompetingDemands:WorkandChildWell-being 135
LindaLane,TanjavanderLippe,StanimirKabaivanovand
MargaretaBäck-Wiklund
9 GenderDifferencesinQualityofLife 149
EvaFodor,LindaLane,JoopSchippersandTanjavanderLippe
Part III PolicyImplicationsandtheFuture
ResearchAgenda
10 HealthyOrganizations 165
SuzanLewis,AnnekeDoorne-Huiskes,DorottyaRedaiand
MargaridaBarroso
11 ScenariosfortheQualityofLifeintheEuropeofthe
Future 186
MariadasDoresGuerreiro,AnnabelleMark,LeilaBillquist
andPolinaManolova
12 TheSocialQualityInstrument:MeasuringtheSocial
QualityofWorkinEuropeanWorkplaces 206
SakariTaipale,BarbaraBehamandJoukoNätti
13 QualityofLifeandWorkinaChangingEurope:Future
Challenges 217
AnnekeDoorne-HuiskesandLauradenDulk
Bibliography 233
Index 252
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
3.1 Country-specificfeaturesofemploymentpolicies 43
3.2 StatutoryleavearrangementsforparentsinJanuary
2009 46
3.3 Institutionalcontextforintegratingworkandfamilylife 53
4.1 Samplesizeandresponserate 60
4.2 Variablesusedintheanalysis(Means) 66
4.3 Casestudyorganizationsandnumberofinterviews
ineach 68
5.1 Publichospitals,workforcecharacteristicsand
organizationalchangeatthetimeofthestudy 79
5.2 Bank/insurancecompanies,workforcecharacteristics
andorganizationalchangeatthetimeofthestudy 82
5.3 ITandtelecomcompanies,workforcecharacteristicsand
organizationalchangeatthetimeofthestudy 83
5.4 Retailcompanies,workforcecharacteristicsand
organizationalchangeatthetimeofthestudy 85
6.1 Satisfactionwithwork–lifebalance:ItemsandtheSWLB
scale(percent‘verysatisfied’or‘satisfied’andscale
means) 106
6.2 Satisfactionwithlife:ItemsandtheSWLSscale(percent
‘stronglyagree’,‘agree’or‘slightlyagree’andscale
means) 107
6.3 Leastsquaresregressionanalysisofsatisfactionwith
work–lifebalanceformenandwomen(standardized
OLScoefficients) 110
6.4 Leastsquaresregressionanalysisoflifesatisfactionfor
menandwomen(standardizedOLScoefficients) 113
7.1 Samplecomposition 125
7.2 Occupationalstatus 126
7.3 Meanscoresofstudyvariables 127
7.4 Linearregressions–satisfactionwithwork–lifebalance
(pooledsample) 130
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7.5 Linearregressions–satisfactionwithwork–lifebalance,
allemployees 131
8.1 Correlationmatrix 145
8.2 Regressionresults 146
9.1 Percentageofwomenineachcountryandineach
company 152
9.2 Meansandpercentagestodescribeworkinghours 152
9.3 Qualityofworkandqualityoflife 155
9.4 Relationshipbetweenlifecourse,workengagementand
qualityoflifeofmenandwomenineightEuropean
countries 157
9.5 Regressionanalysistoexplainworkengagementand
qualityoflife,unstandardizedcoefficients(standard
errorsinbrackets) 159
11.1 Factorsmakinguptheaxes 190
11.2 Futurescenarios,bycountry 195
Figures
2.1 Conceptualmodelandhypothesizedrelationships 19
3.1 Countriesgroupingaccordingtomacro-economic
indicators 36
3.2 Women’sactivityrates,part-timeworkandfertilityin
2006 39
5.1 Subjectivemeasuresofqualityofwork(adjustedmeans) 87
5.2 Overalllifesatisfactionbycountry(adjustedmeans) 91
5.3 Overalllifesatisfactionbyorganization 92
6.1 Conceptualmodelfortheempiricalanalysis 100
6.2 Correlationbetweensatisfactionwithwork–lifebalance
(SWLB)andlifesatisfaction(SWLS)acrossorganizations
andcountries 108
7.1 Countryvariationinsatisfactionwithwork–lifebalance
(meanscores)forprofessionalsandnon-professionals 127
7.2 Countryvariationinsatisfactionwithwork–lifebalance
(meanscores)forpart-timeandfull-timeemployees 128
7.3 Countryvariationinsatisfactionwithwork–lifebalance
(meanscores)forolderandyoungeremployees 128
7.4 Interactionbetweenageandlevelofstatesupport
predictingsatisfactionwithwork–lifebalance 132
8.1 Familymealfrequencybycountry 137
ListofTablesandFigures ix
11.1 Thepositionofthevariouscountriesinthetrend
quadrants 192
11.2 Chainsofevents 198
12.1 ThestructureoftheSocialQualityInstrument 211
12.2 Screenshot 213
Acknowledgements
The editors would like to acknowledge the support from the European
CommissionforfundingtheFrameworkSixproject‘QualityofLifeina
ChangingEurope’.WewishtothanktheprojectofficeroftheEuropean
Commission, Ian Perry, for providing continuous support during the
endeavour of the project. We are also most grateful to the organiza-
tions that took part in the study, and the employees who shared their
experiences about life and work with us. Furthermore, we would like
to acknowledge the support of Peter Hermus and Annejet Kerckhaert
regarding the data collection, and the work of the project managers,
Els van Kampen andMarijke Veldhoen-vanBlitterswijk.Finally,weare
greatly indebted to Cecilia Willems for the excellent job she made
of correcting the English language of all contributions. This book is
the result of a very pleasant and inspiring collaboration of researchers
and we would like to thank all contributors for their work, input and
inspiration.
MargaretaBäck-Wiklund
TanjavanderLippe
LauradenDulk
AnnekeDoorne-Huiskes
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