Each activity sector requires different kinds of reconciliation policies. This is one of the conclusions of the latest IFREI report presented at the 3rd Forum on Family-Responsible Companies, held on July 11 this year at IESE's Madrid campus.
The study, which will continue to examine the most appropiate measures for each sector, reveals that Spanish companies in the telecommunications, banking, insurance, and health care sectors have the most measures for reconciling work and family, while those related to manufacturing activities present shortcomings in this area.
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Last May, the Fundación +Familia and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs awarded recognition to a dozen companies that have earned the "Family-Responsible Company" (FRC) award. The new certificates were for: Sanitas, Banesto, MRW, Iberdrola, Ferrovial, Cintra, Schering-Plough, and six SMEs: TQ Tecnol, David Rey Marketing Outsourcing, Decepal, Prysma and the Instituto de Fomento from the region of Murcia.
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In this past year, the IFREI study (IESE Family-Responsible Employer Index) has been expanded to different countries in Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru) as well as Asia (Macao, the Philippines), and Africa (Kenya, Nigeria). Likewise, the second edition of the CISMS II (Collaborative International Study of Managerial Stress) now has participants from Israel, Taiwan, the Ukraine, the United States, Canada, Australia, India, Turkey, Indonesia, and Spain.
This is good news, but the Center wants to keep growing in order to get a more accurate X-ray of the state of work-family reconciliation all over the world. Help us in our research!
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Audi and IESE's International Center of Work and Family have begun a forum series devoted to work-family reconciliation. At the first workshop, the ICWF presented a prospective analysis on the status of work-family reconciliation among European executives. The conclusions reveal that the countries that implement the most reconciliation policies are more productive, while Spain, where there is less flexibility and the workdays are longer, stands out for its low productivity.
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Leadership, change and balance were the overarching issues at the 2nd International Conference on "Women, Enterprise, and Society" which was held at the IESE campus in Madrid. The conference was marked not only by its international participants but also by the opening of the business world to other areas, such as politics, public administrations, and the realm of personal experience.
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The Spanish subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson has successfully tried implementing a continuous European work schedule, with some degree of flexibility in starting and ending times (between 7:30 and 9:30 in the morning, and between 6:15 and 8:15 in the evenings). In exchange, the company requires high productivity per hour worked and offers employees the option of occasionally working from a distance.
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Chinchilla, N. Torres, E.
This document explores the resaons why companies should strive to be family-responsible. To illustrate it, three models of relationship between people and organizations are outlined. In the mechanistic model, work-family reconciliation policies are adopted as a marketing strategy. In the psycho-social model, companies implement them to attract and retain talent. Finally, in the anthropological-humanistic model, companies make a commitment to a family-responsible culture, and as a result, treat their employees like human beings in all their dimensions.
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Hendriks, A.  León, C.  Chinchilla, N.
Conducted at the request of the Association of Business Women in Lleida (abbreviated ADELL), this study presents a preliminary diagnosis of the status of companies in Lleida in terms of the reconciliation of work, family, and personal life. The study is based on a survey of 85 companies in different activity sectors and of different sizes. These data have been compared with the results from the latest edition of the IFREI study (IESE Family-Responsible Employer Index) from 2005.
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Chinchilla, MN. Poelmans, S. García-Lombardía, P. López, M.
As a complement to the Guide to Good Practices in Flexible Companies which the Center issued in 2005 for the Community of Madrid, this study analyses the status of work-family reconciliation in the region and offers specific suggestions to solve the work-family conflict and promote more conciliatory policies. The research was based on surveys administrated to 190 employees of sixty Madrid-based multinationals.
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Are there ways of guiding one's own professional career that lead to personal satisfaction? What are the characteristics of these careers? What are the consequences of a professional who is satisfied with their job in terms of their way of working?
Professor Mireia de las Heras is studying the way people guide their careers and make decisions that affect thier professional careers. Her research aims to discover the connection between these decisions and other factors that make up a person's entire life.
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With this survey, the AUDI-IESE forum on work-family reconciliation aims to find out men's and women's assessments of their work-family reconciliation responsibilities.
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Since January 10 this year, the Autonomous Community of Madrid has been offering a free-of-charge training and advisory service for the 150 SMEs to help them draft their Work-Family Reconciliation Plans. Piloted by IESE's International Center of Work and Family and the consultancy Soluziona, this project strives to provide an impetus to the emergence or efficient, innovative working cultures. There is still room for the SMEs wishing to use this services provided they fulfill the requirements needed to benefit from it.
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