Quality of Life and Work in Europe Theory, Practice and Policy [Paperback]

Intense globalization, rapidly changing workplaces and family patterns have renewed the international interest in quality of life.?This book?examines different institutional arrangements, work-place conditions and gendered work and care that affect the conditions for achieving quality of work and life in European countries.Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe;? T.van der Lippe ?& M.B?ck-Wiklund PART I: CONTEXT, THEORY AND METHODS Quality of Life and Work in a Changing Europe:?A Theoretical Framework;? L.den Dulk, M.B?ck-Wiklund, S.Lewis ?& D.Redai The Institutional Context of the Quality of Life; S.Kovacheva, A.van Doorne-Huiskes ?& T.Anttila Data and Methods;? T.van der Lippe, S.Szucs, S.Drobni? ?& L.Billquist PART II: EMPIRICAL RESULTS Quality of Work and Quality of Life of Service Sector Workers: Cross-national Variations in Eight European Countries;? P.Pr?g, M.das Dorres Guerreiro, J.N?tti, M.Brookes ?& L.den Dulk Quality of Life and Satisfaction with the Work-life Balance;? S.Sz?cs, S.Drobni?, L.den Dulk ?& R.Verwiebe Variations in Work-Life Balance Satisfaction Among Service Sector Employees;? B.Beham, D.Etherington ?& E.Rodrigues ? Competing Demands: Work and Child Well-Being;? L.Lane, T.van der Lippe, S.Kabaivanov & M.B?ck-Wiklund ? Gender Differences in Quality of Life;? E.Fodor, L.Lane, J. Schippers ?& T.van der Lippe PART III: POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND THE FUTURE RESEARCH AGENDA Healthy Organizations;? S.Lewis, A.van Doorne-Huiskes, D.Redai ?& M.Barroso Scenarios for the Quality of Life in the Europe of the Future;? M.das Dores Guerreiro,?A.Mark, L.Billquist ?& P.Manolova The Social Quality Instrument: Measuring the Social Quality of Work in European Workplaces;? S.Taipale, B.Beham ?& J.N?tti Quality of ife and Work in a Changing Europe: Future Challenges;? A.van Doorne-Huiskes ?& L.den Dulk Bibliography IndexTIMO ANTTILA researcher in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the Univerlƒv