TY - JOUR AU - Kossek, Ellen PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Organizational Payback from Work/Life Policies JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/organizational-payback-from-worklife-policies SP - AB - This resource provides an ice-breaker, and lecture for a single class on Organizational Payback from work/Life Policies: IntroductionAs your groups' reporting of your brainstorming has shown, there are many potential productivity consequences of organizational supports for work/life integration. Clearly companies simply have to be more creative and thorough in assessing them. Unquestionably the issue of measuring work/life integration supports is complex. On one hand, it is critical to link these programs to the bottom line in order to gain support from management. Getting resources for new and existing programs will be aided by this approach. On the other hand, the effectiveness of such interventions as flextime, leaves of absence, and so on also often hinges on concomitant culture change at the informal level as opposed to the formal level. All the formal programs in the world won't work if employees are scared to use them or if they aren't effectively implemented. Nevertheless there are some data supporting the productivity impact of work/family programs. For approximately the next hour and a half, we will review some of the key issues related to assessing the productivity impact of these programs. The lecture mainly focuses on child-care benefit programs since most of the published research has been done in this area. However, it is important to recognize that these are part of a larger issue of work/life balance. ER -