ARE FAMILY FRIENDLY WORKPLACE PRACTICES A VALUABLE FIRM RESOURCE

By Nicholas Bloom, Tobias Kretschmer, John Van Reenen. 2011

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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 of female managers and more skilled workers, as well as well-managed firms, tend to implement more FFWP. Conversely, a firm's environment does not have a significant impact on the FFWP it provides.

Subfields: Accounting, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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• Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices (2011, unknown): “Hypothesis E is that the link between satisfaction and returns arises because a third unobservable variable causes both, such as good management (Bloom, Kretschmer, and Van Reenen, 2009; Bloom et al., 2011)—i.”
• Enablers for Competitiveness of Indian Manufacturing Sector: An ISM-Fuzzy MICMAC Analysis (2015, background): “Competitive Pressure Frésard et al. (2013), Bloom et al. (2011), Vives, (2008), Boone, J. (2000).”