Mother-friendly companies, work-life balance, and emotional well-being: is there a relationship to financial performance and risk level

Blazovich, Janell L.; Smith, Katherine Taken; Smith, L. Murphy

doi:10.1504/ijwoe.2018.10018271

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“…She is certain that these activities are conducted to achieve better financial results for the company rather than to raise the employees' sense of satisfaction or to protect the environment, (cf. Blazovich et al 2014), but "still it's better than the performance of our local companies, which are focused on achieving their financial goals at the lowest cost and without taking into account their employees' needs or the environment." Thus, in her narration, the transnational corporation is presented as an entity that gives her the opportunity to build stability for many years.…”

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Transnational Corporations as a Source of Career and Biographical Stabilisation: The Case of Polish Corporate Employees

Gońda

2019

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This paper discusses contemporary transformations in the way work is organised and the consequences for the stability of careers and biographies. It debates the widely held belief that organised and predictable life-course paths (including professional careers) have ceased to exist and that work itself has lost its stabilising quality. Biographical data collected among Polish employees of transnational corporations within the project “Poles in the World of Late Capitalism” proves that even though transnational corporations are widely criticised for propelling neoliberal tendencies in the global economy, they provide a means of protecting their employees against today’s uncertainty and occupational risk. Three empirical cases are presented to show how work in a transnational corporation may contribute to achieving and maintaining stability for persons who have had troublesome experiences of working in other sectors of the labour market.

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Section: Always Wanted To Leave It's Well Known That Poland Is Notmentioning

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Transnational Corporations as a Source of Career and Biographical Stabilisation: The Case of Polish Corporate Employees

Gońda

2019

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“…The Polish adaptation of the NEO-FFI, the core self-evaluation scale and the INTE questionnaire were used to measure the level of emotional intelligence of employees. Blazovich et al (2018) presented a study which found that mother-friendly firms experience better financial performance. This finding suggested the capital market value firms with 'mother friendly' attributes.…”

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Human emotion detection based on questionnaire and text analysis

Ghosh

Sinha

2019

IJWOE

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Human emotions have been described by some theorists as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. Emotions are the topic of extensive research in the recent times. However, state of the art describes that most of the approaches on emotion detection have been designed on the basis of complex and costly approaches like physiological features, brain signals, etc. The present article presents a simple and cost-effective emotion detection model by combining questionnaire and text analysis-based approaches and then combining the probability scores of two different classifiers (support vector machine and artificial neural network) using Dempster-Shafer theory (DST). In the present work, DST has been used effectively in combining multiple information sources which provides incomplete, imprecise, and biased knowledge. Experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms all existing emotion detection systems available in the literature.

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“…There is vast, empirical literature which looks into the certification schemes, supply chain management techniques or providing stakeholder's perspective on both issues (Blazovich et al 2014;Conde et al 2013;Fulponi 2006;Grolleau, et al 2007;Kalfagianni 2014). However, it is often regardless of the production activity or purely based on secondary data analyses, difficult to repeat or verify on specific research sample, or verify third-party methodology (Blazovich et al 2014). The specificity of the industry is very relevant, since the certification schemes are often too general and need to be adjusted according to the industry (Conde et al 2013).…”

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Ethical certification in the Spanish agrifood industry: An alternative paradigm?

Nováková

López

Álvarez-Coque

2016

Soc Ec

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The agrifood sector belongs to traditional industries often supported by the national governments. The quality of the output is directly related to human health and, therefore, several initiatives within the EU have been introduced. These initiatives support the consciousness of the broad public, including the individual agrifood businesses. Besides the marketing standards, geographical indications and organic farming, there are also national and private certification schemes. All these tendencies aim to promote the socio-ethical principles of the business to support the non-monetary issues related to the agrifood sector. This paper provides a closer exploration of the socio-ethical aspects of companies in the Spanish agrifood sector. Any awareness of these principles in the daily business routine can be considered as a potential competitive advantage for an individual company. The objective of the paper is to examine whether there are significant differences among individual sub-industries within the Spanish agrifood sector in terms of social and ethical aspects. A sample of 66,047 different agrifood companies in the year 2012 was examined. Results of empirical tests prove that there are significant differences between the agricultural producers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.

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Mother-friendly companies, work-life balance, and emotional well-being: is there a relationship to financial performance and risk level

Cited by 16 publications

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Transnational Corporations as a Source of Career and Biographical Stabilisation: The Case of Polish Corporate Employees

Transnational Corporations as a Source of Career and Biographical Stabilisation: The Case of Polish Corporate Employees

Human emotion detection based on questionnaire and text analysis

Ethical certification in the Spanish agrifood industry: An alternative paradigm?

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