Responsible Human Resource in Practice : Towards a Family-friendly Workplace
Heikkinen, S., Kangas, E., & Lämsä, A.-M. (2019). Responsible Human Resource in Practice : Towards a Family-friendly Workplace. In A. K. Dey, & H. Lehtimäki (Eds.), Responsible Humane Strategies for Gender Equality, Empowerment and Leadership (pp. 55-65). New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing India.
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The purpose of this case study is twofold. First, a family-friendly development program in a
Finnish health care organization is considered a good example of an attempt to develop an
advanced workplace regarding work-family integration. The core idea of the program is that
in a family-friendly workplace, human resource practices take employees’ varying
circumstances into account. Second, the qualitative data gathered from the case are used to
explore employees’ perceptions of family-friendliness, as well as the successes and pitfalls of
adopting the development program to enhance work-family integration. The results show that
the relationship between employees and their immediate superiors was perceived as a key
factor in an organization’s family friendliness. Additionally, putting care and fairness at the
centre of responsible human resource management was viewed as promoting a familyfriendly organization. A high organizational hierarchy and different values being placed on
various professions and positions (both typical features of Finnish health care organizations)
were perceived as obstacles to advancing the organization’s family friendliness. The
establishment of family friendliness requires similarly common guidelines and contextspecific flexibility in the organization, meaning that work-family integration can be
paradoxical by nature in organizational life.
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