Chapter presents data on the agency and capabilities of working parents to make claims for WLB in three sectors within the same institutional and normative societal environment. We applied Sen’s capability approach in analysing the capabilities for WLB in context of restored capitalistic regime in Slovenia. By analysing collected data from focus groups and interviews with managers we captured both accounts of employers and voices of employees. Specific firm and sector level variations exist in the three cases: differences in the ownership, market position, and organisational culture influenced by gender, age and educational/professional structure of employment. However, in all three cases, certain assumptions operate that shape agency inequalities in WLB: the increasing dominance of paid work over other parts of life; the gendered and unequal division of roles and responsibilities in public and private sphere and the sense that WLB is the responsibility of the individual parents, not the company.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32279645The Evaluation of the Resolution on the National Programme for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men 2005-2013 was primarily designed to determine the usefulness and effectiveness of this strategy document and to provide the basis for new solutions in this area. The Resolution adopted in October 2005 was a strategic document that set out the objectives and measures and key policymakers to achieve gender equality in various spheres of the life of women and men in the Republic of Slovenia for the period from 2005 to 2013. In the evaluation of the Resolutions we determined the extent to which the objectives defined in the Resolution were achieved through the implementation of measures and activities. We also assessed the results and impacts of these processes. When observing the trends in gender equality in the time period covered by the Resolution, we also take account of the wider social context (institutional and regulatory framework, values and expectations about the social roles of men and women, the economic crisis etc.).
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COBISS.SI-ID: 996461Co-editors of a special issue of an international scientific journal, indexed in Scopus, on CSR communication. Social responsibility has become a much-researched topic in the social sciences literature. Recently, the emphasis has been on the institutional approaches related to representations and discourses which have shifted the focus of social responsibility literature from instrumental and functionalist towards more critical. This current trend has also been acknowledged in the special issue of Corporate Communications where selected papers from the international CSR Communication Conference, co-organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences, have been published. Further, a comprehensive review of the state of the art in CSR communication literature was undertaken in the introductory article by the guest editors.
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In the presented paper we explore the relations among different determinants that influence the success of an organization. We are focused on the impact of business strategies and HRM practices on the nature of organization (in relation to employees and their family) and its success, innovativeness and the emotional response of employees. We start with the assumption that a business strategy is an optimal explorative predictor for HRM policies and for employee relations. Our analysis confirms that the business strategy impacts the nature of an organization, the way an organization develops employee relations and how they consider their needs, wellbeing and consequently their families.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 31420253The international conference “Employability of graduates and higher education management systems” was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana, on 27 and 28 September. The conference was attended by approximately 300 participants from 25 (mainly) European countries. The conference included about 70 paper presentations and round tables.
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