Family home culture and management-employee relationships: Comparing two kibbutz factories

Family businesses and employment relations: Review and suggestions for future research

“…While this model captures the essence of family's influence on a firm's performance, the linearity of the model does not delve deeper in explaining how the family exhibits this influence. Moreover, Moskovich & Achouch (2017) throw light on the complex family business culture which includes "development of human resources management, labour relations, working climate in business, health, safety, prosperity, fulfillment of regulatory requirements for employees, equal opportunities, and any other matter relating to the employment relationship, which goes beyond just the employees" (p. 97). At this juncture, we realise the evolution of family business research goes beyond the formation of the business and toward the formulisation of the business with the usual complexities of a corporation and the added complexities of familial ties.…”

“…The supportive work-home culture of family organisations is known to provide a relaxed atmosphere which increases the satisfaction and wellbeing of family employees (Mallett & Wapshott, 2017;Moskovich & Achouch, 2017). In research carried out on family-owned restaurants in the UK, Ram et al, (2001) posited that family businesses provided flexibility to employees where the employees were happy to cover for each other as they understood their family needs better.…”

Family Home Business in Kibbutz Industry Sustainability

“…Since then, however, anthropologists have developed further kinship and familial relationship studies that are metaphorical, not limiting themselves to blood connection alone but also including social interaction, drawing analogies from physical bonds to social connections. This familial analogy became more common in organizational life [10]. Contemporary research on relationships is more concerned with local examples, analyzing everyday life for its rituals, rules, celebrations, meals and creative energies.…”

“…The study examined the sociological characteristics of this new type of enterprise, extending familial business culture theory innovatively by adding a new category of business to those already described in the relevant literature. To date, studies concerning kibbutz industries have accorded little attention to their familial perspective [7][8][9][10]. The present study assumes that organizational development in familial business creates cultural changes in the enterprise itself and also generates interaction between it and its community.…”

“…Accordingly, the present study will expand on family business behavior and add a new type of familial business style that is relevant to communal and cooperative organizations but has not been accorded adequate treatment in research literature [15][16][17]. Another innovation of this study is its exploration of family business cultural characteristics and social conditions in kibbutz industry-a topic largely ignored in the research literature that will shed considerable light on this ethnographic phenomenon [10].…”