Family‐Friendly Management in Great Britain: Testing Various Perspectives

Abstract

Five main perspectives on family‐friendly management are differentiated by their conceptions about the nature of such management and not just by its assumed predictors. Multivariate analysis of the relationships among a set of family‐oriented practices shows that some but not all are used in a systematic way. Regression analysis reveals that employers’ adoption of family‐friendly approaches is explained by factors that span all five perspectives, but overall, the organizational adaptation perspective fares best.