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Examining a range of under-explored work-life interface issues as they affect different stages of a worker’s life, the authors share new insights into complex issues that affect us all.
Topics explored include the wellbeing of students who work, solo-living staff, those on complex fertility journeys, perinatal mental health, chronic illness, menopause, and retirement.
Work-Life Inclusion: Broadening perspectives across the life-course will be primarily useful for two main audiences: 1) Academics and students in the fields of work and employment, gender studies, and those interested in health and wellbeing 2) People management practitioners and employers.
This book will be a very valuable tool to help HR professionals and organisations to take their health and wellbeing strategy to the next level. To optimise its impact, a strategy should be based on the health risks and needs of its workforce throughout the employee ‘life course’. The CIPD fully supports the notion that employers need to consider the whole person if they are to be effective in reducing work-life conflict and supporting their health and wellbeing as they journey through work and life. The book provides an excellent narrative of how this needs to include the multidimensional nature of people’s identity and experiences. The different chapters cover a range of key life-stage events, such as menopause transition, that individuals can encounter through the employee lifecycle and which can understandably impact on health and work. The book is a welcome clarion call to breakdown the silence and taboo that persists in many workplaces around broader wellbeing issues that affect so many, so that people can receive empathy, support and understanding.
Dr Krystal Wilkinson is Reader (Associate Professor) in Human Resource Management at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a Chartered Member of the CIPD and worked in a range of operational HR roles prior to moving into academia.
Dr Helen Woolnough is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Senior Manager, Equans, UK and Ireland. She is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS). Helen worked in numerous academic roles before moving into organisational practice.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Exploring the Under-Explored; Krystal Wilkinson and Helen Woolnough
Chapter 2. Work-Life Balance and Social Class; Samantha Evans and Madeleine Wyatt
Chapter 3. Parallel Lives: Exploring the Experiences of Students Who Work; Marilena Antoniadou, Mark Crowder, and Eileen Cunningham
Chapter 4. Empowering Generation Z: Achieving a Healthy Work-Life Interface; Fabio Rizzi, Jérôme Chabanne-Rive, and Marc Valax
Chapter 5. Questing the Work-Life Challenges Faced by Solo-Living Women Academics: Can There Be a “Life” for Us?; Grace Gao, Linna Sai, and Mengyi Xu
Chapter 6. Navigating Fertility Treatment Alongside Work and Employment: The Work-Fertility Interface; Krystal Wilkinson and Clare Mumford
Chapter 7. The Intersect of Miscarriage and Work: Concealment, Minimisation and Discriminatory Practice; Katy Schnitzler
Chapter 8. Perinatal Mental Health and Employment: Exploring the Work-Illness Intersection in the Context of UK Policing; Krystal Wilkinson, Sarah-Jane Lennie, and Keely Duddin
Chapter 9. Are Training Opportunities Another Work-Life Challenge?: The Experiences of Combining Apprenticeship Training with Working Split Shifts in Hospitality Roles; Gail Hebson and Clare Mumford
Chapter 10. Managing Work and Life with an Unseen Chronic Illness; Humera Manzoor
Chapter 11. Muted Voices of Invisible Men: The Impact of Male Childlessness; Robin A. Hadley
Chapter 12. Menopause and Workplace Well-being; Carol Atkinson, Fiona Carmichael, and Jo Duberley
Chapter 13. Ageing and Work-Life Complexities in Retirement; Katrina Pritchard, Rebecca Whiting, and Cara Reed
Chapter 14. Ageing Migrants' Work-Life Interface across 'Transnational' Life-Courses; Sajia Ferdous
Chapter 15. Conclusion; Helen Woolnough and Krystal Wilkinson