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Family Friendly Links

Family Friendly Business Practices

Workplace Tensions Rise as Dads Seek Family Time

Do Your Family-Friendly Programs Make Cents?
Businesses make significant strides in calculating the return on family-friendly programs – Benefits.

Want a Family Friendly Job?
In today's business world, more professionals are juggling their family and work lives, and both men and women are making work/life balance a major determining factor when looking for a job.

Businesses can Win the Battle Between Work & Family
Lynn Wooten, assistant professor of corporate strategy and international business at the University of Michigan Business School, says companies can win this war by making smart investments in family-friendly cultures, policies and practices that facilitate employees' efforts to balance work demands with the obligations of personal life.

Small is Flexible - Small Businesses can offer parents the flexibility
they need to meet responsibilities to work and to children
This article originally appeared in the May-June 2001 issue of the Children's Advocate, published by Action Alliance for Children.

Child Care: It's Good Business
This article originally appeared in the May-june 1997 Children's Advocated news magazine, published by Action Alliance for Children.

Father-Friendly Checkup for Business
The staff of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) welcomes you to this on-line survey that will help you assess the degree to which your business' operations include helping fathers find a successful balance between the demands of their jobs and the commitments to their families.

Working Mother -100 Best Companies goes Platinum!
For the twentieth year, we've compiled our report on the family-friendliest companies in America. Take a look at this year's complete list, including profiles of each company and their winning ways.

How Family Friendly Business Works in Other States

Oregon Employers of Choice
If Oregon firms are to be employers of choice, this is the workforce they must recruit and retain. Addressing the child care needs of employees isn't just altruism. It's a hard-edged, dollars-and-sense understanding of the economics of employee retention, productivity and satisfaction.

The Family Friendly Practices Program (Maryland)
The Family Friendly Practices Program provides benefits for all participants, including businesses, parents, the Frederick County community, and most importantly, the children of families that live or work in Frederick County, MD.

Family Friendly Business Initiative (Florida)
The Naples Alliance for Children encourages and recognizes employers who have workplace policies and programs that assist employees to take an active part in raising their children.

Healthier Happier Families in Oklahoma
While most of us attempt to put our families first, the reality is that we must also earn a living in order to best care for our loved ones. Striking a balance between work and home has always been a very difficult task, especially in current times when most families are made up of two working parents.

Studies Sharing the Effectiveness of Family Friendly Policies

Family-owned businesses not necessarily friendly to families
A family-owned business might seem to be the best workplace for employees who care about balancing work and family life, but it isn't necessarily so, says Dan Moshavi, assistant professor of management at Montana State University-Bozeman.

Small Businesses' Family-Friendly Edge
A Wharton professor says the flexibility to give each employee what he or she needs is key.

Small, Flexible and Family Friendly
Employment relations research series no. 47, Nottingham Business School, the Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Family Friendly Workplaces
The MCEL supports local efforts to encourage the development of family-friendly workplaces in the Greater Kansas City. The MCEL partnered with the Midwest WholeChild Development Group, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Women's Bureau, Region VII, US Department of Labor, to conduct a survey and publish a report on work-family issues in March 2005.

This site is administered by AEYC with funding support from Best Beginnings, Communities in Schools,
the Department of Health & Social Services, thread, and United Way Southeast.

Family Friendly Links
		Family Friendly Business Practices Workplace Tensions Rise as Dads Seek Family Time Do Your Family-Friendly Programs Make Cents? Businesses make significant strides in calculating the return on family-friendly programs – Benefits. Want a Family Friendly Job? In today's business world, more professionals are juggling their family and work lives, and both men and women are making work/life balance a major determining factor when looking for a job. Businesses can Win the Battle Between Work & Family Lynn Wooten, assistant professor of corporate strategy and international business at the University of Michigan Business School, says companies can win this war by making smart investments in family-friendly cultures, policies and practices that facilitate employees' efforts to balance work demands with the obligations of personal life. Small is Flexible - Small Businesses can offer parents the flexibility they need to meet responsibilities to work and to children This article originally appeared in the May-June 2001 issue of the Children's Advocate, published by Action Alliance for Children. Child Care: It's Good Business This article originally appeared in the May-june 1997 Children's Advocated news magazine, published by Action Alliance for Children. Father-Friendly Checkup for Business The staff of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) welcomes you to this on-line survey that will help you assess the degree to which your business' operations include helping fathers find a successful balance between the demands of their jobs and the commitments to their families. Working Mother -100 Best Companies goes Platinum! For the twentieth year, we've compiled our report on the family-friendliest companies in America. Take a look at this year's complete list, including profiles of each company and their winning ways.

		How Family Friendly Business Works in Other States Oregon Employers of Choice If Oregon firms are to be employers of choice, this is the workforce they must recruit and retain. Addressing the child care needs of employees isn't just altruism. It's a hard-edged, dollars-and-sense understanding of the economics of employee retention, productivity and satisfaction. The Family Friendly Practices Program (Maryland) The Family Friendly Practices Program provides benefits for all participants, including businesses, parents, the Frederick County community, and most importantly, the children of families that live or work in Frederick County, MD. Family Friendly Business Initiative (Florida) The Naples Alliance for Children encourages and recognizes employers who have workplace policies and programs that assist employees to take an active part in raising their children. Healthier Happier Families in Oklahoma While most of us attempt to put our families first, the reality is that we must also earn a living in order to best care for our loved ones. Striking a balance between work and home has always been a very difficult task, especially in current times when most families are made up of two working parents.

		Studies Sharing the Effectiveness of Family Friendly Policies Family-owned businesses not necessarily friendly to families A family-owned business might seem to be the best workplace for employees who care about balancing work and family life, but it isn't necessarily so, says Dan Moshavi, assistant professor of management at Montana State University-Bozeman. Small Businesses' Family-Friendly Edge A Wharton professor says the flexibility to give each employee what he or she needs is key. Small, Flexible and Family Friendly Employment relations research series no. 47, Nottingham Business School, the Nottingham Trent University, UK. Family Friendly Workplaces The MCEL supports local efforts to encourage the development of family-friendly workplaces in the Greater Kansas City. The MCEL partnered with the Midwest WholeChild Development Group, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Women's Bureau, Region VII, US Department of Labor, to conduct a survey and publish a report on work-family issues in March 2005. This site is administered by AEYC with funding support from Best Beginnings, Communities in Schools, the Department of Health & Social Services, thread, and United Way Southeast.