Navigating the Return-To-Work Experience for New Parents : Maintaining Work-Family Wellbeing / edited by Maria Karanika-Murray and Cary Cooper.

Parenthood can be one of the most fulfilling, altering, and challenging life events. This book is set within the background of the reality of many parents' return-to-work experience, the task of re-engaging with work and maintaining a job or a career, and the difficulties that parenthood poses...

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Other Authors: Karanika-Murray, M. (Maria), Cooper, Cary L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Routledge, 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword
  • Foreword
  • 1 Introduction-Understanding the return-to-work experience for parents: what is and what could be
  • 2 New parents navigating the workplace: pregnancy, stereotype threat, and work-family conflict
  • 3 Building the support network of new parents at work and outside
  • 4 Practical strategies for work-family resources management in the return-to-work experiences of new parents
  • 5 Return-to-work for fathers: a group with specific needs?
  • 6 Fathers and leave for parenting: how can we increase uptake?
  • 7 Work-family integration and gender equality: how Nordic countries lead the way
  • 8 Career progression: left out of the game?
  • 9 Career development after parenthood: choices, challenges and opportunities
  • 10 Training and development for employees returning to work after parental leave
  • 11 Childcare options in France: beyond the hypothetic free choices
  • 12 What can employers do? Creating an inclusive workplace that fosters work-family well-being
  • 13 Going beyond policies to ease parents back into work and rebalance roles: the importance of idiosyncratic deals
  • 14 What we have learned and what we can do to support parents' return-to-work
  • Index