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Completed Projects
Looking Backwards
to Go Forward: Reviewing the "Movement" on
Work-Personal Life Integration
Dates and duration of research project 2001- April 2004.
Location of project: Institute
of Family & Environmental Research. London.
Funding organisation: The
Ford Foundation, USA
Names and titles of project directors: Dr
Rhona Rapoport. Institute of Family & Environmental
Research. London
Other staff: Professor
Suzan Lewis, Manchester Metropolitan University
Richenda Gamles, Institute of Famly and Environmental Research, London.
Background
In the past three to four decades,
most industrialized countries have addressed, at some level, the issue
of the relationship between work and the rest of life and the impact
on equity. Historically, this has been approached in a variety of ways
and various solutions and sticking points have emerged. This project
aimed to capture the learning that has occurred in different countries
in the developed and developing world, about optimal ways of linking
paid work with the rest of life - for individual men
and women, for families and for communities and to consider implications
for the future.
Aims
- to engage people familiar with and committed to this issue in a process
of reflecting on past experience and considering implications for the
future;
- to understand what the problems are
in a range of developing countries, how the issues differ from those
in more "developed" countries,
and what has been going on informally to deal with them;
- to achieve the clarity needed to move beyond the current situation
by capturing, synthesizing, and disseminating insightful and creative
thinking in the field of work-personal life integration.
Project design and method
The
research was being carried out in the UK, the USA, Norway, the Netherlands,
India, Japan and South Africa. They have different degrees of industrialization,
are at different stages of globalisation and have undergone different histories
on the subject. It involved
collaboration with colleagues in reach of the countries involved, to
i) construct country timelines, ii) hold country meetings and iii) carry
out collaborative interviews with people involved in some way with work
and personal life issues Finally creative thinkers form each of the countries
were invited to a scenario planning meeting to think about the implications
of our findings for moving forwards (funded by The Japan Foundation and
the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation)
Country Organisers
USA :
Dr Ellen Galinsky. Families and Work Institute EMGalinsky@aol.com
Funded by IBM
India : Dr Tripti Desai tripti@iilm.edu
UK :
Lisa Harker
The Netherlands : Professor Anneka van Doornes,
Dr. Bram Peper
Japan : Professor Hiroki Sato
Norway :
Dr Ragnhild Sohlberg.
Publications
Rapoport, R, Bailyn,
L Fletcher, J and Pruitt, B (2002), Beyond
Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity & Work Performance. Jossey-Bass.
Lewis, S., Rapoport, R and Gambles, R 2003
Reflections on the Integration of Paid Work and the Rest of Life. Journal of Management
Psychology 18, 824-841 Rhona Rapoport, Suzan Lewis,
Lotte Bailyn and Richenda Gambles (2005) Globalization
and the Integration of Work with Personal Life in Work and
family: An international research perspective . S. A. Y. Poelmans.
Mahwah, NJ, Erlbaum .
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