Doctoral Dissertation Research: Structural, Problem- Solving, and Life-Cycle Issues in The Organizational Adoption of Work-Family Programs

这是在提高博士论文研究计划下的一个奖项。它是对美国公司采取具体计划以减少工作和家庭义务之间冲突的决定因素的研究。数据将从现有的参考资料中收集，并通过与企业人力资源部门的电话访谈，以便对触发企业建立家庭计划的因素进行事件历史分析。随着已婚妇女在劳动力中所占比例的急剧增加，平衡家庭和工作义务的问题也增加了。一些公司通过设立现场日托、灵活的工作时间和其他家庭项目来应对，而另一些公司在这些方面做得很少。我们迫切需要了解哪些因素最有可能导致企业家庭计划的建立，这个项目将有助于填补这一需求。除了研究取得的科学成果外，该奖项还将极大地帮助极有前途的学生完成博士论文的研究。有利于培养国家未来的科学人才，有利于培养下一代社会科学家。

This is an award under the Grants for Improving Doctoral Dissertation Research program. It is a study of the determinants of the adoption by American corporations of specific programs to reduce the conflict between work and family obligations. Data will be collected from existing reference sources and through telephone interviews with corporate human resource departments in order to carry out an event history analysis of the factors that trigger the establishment of corporate family programs. As the proportion of married women in the work force has increased dramatically, the problems of juggling family and work obligations have increased. Some corporations have responded by establishing on-site day care, flexible work schedules, and other family programs, while others have done very little along these lines. There is a pressing need to understand what factors are most likely to lead to the establishment of corporate family programs, a need this project will help to fill. In addition to the scientific gains to be achieved by the research, this award will materially assist a highly promising student in completing research for the Ph.D. dissertation. Thus it contributes to the future scientific manpower of the nation and the thorough training of the next generation of social scientists.