Take care : how to be a great employer for working carers
Record details
- ISBN: 9781787142930
- ISBN: 1787142930
- ISBN: 178714917X
- ISBN: 9781787149175
- ISBN: 1787142922
- ISBN: 9781787142923
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: [Bingley] : Emerald Publishing, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 WHY CARE FOR CARERS? -- 1. Caring and Carers -- Who is a ̀Carer'? -- Why should We Care about Caring? -- Working Carers -- Caring, Reducing or Giving up Work and Impact on Family Finances -- Triggers to Giving up Work -- Caring is Invaluable But Economically Undervalued -- Who Cares? Carer Archetypes -- Take-away -- 2. Caring Journey: Despatches from the Frontline -- Stages of the Caring Journey -- What Employers Need to Know about the Caring Journey -- "Sandwich Generation": Growth in Caring Responsibilities for Parents and Children -- What do Working Carers Need? -- How Support For Caring Has Evolved Around the World -- Take-away -- 3. Care in the Community and the Workplace: The Business Case for Action by Employers and Society -- Why Business and Other Employers should Care about Working Carers -- Lost Productivity -- Recruitment and Retention Costs -- Widening Skills Gap -- Losing Out on the Value of the Ageing Workforce -- Retaining Working Carers: An Employee Engagement Challenge -- Corporate Social Opportunities Created by Engaging Carers -- Take-away -- pt. 2 SEVEN STEPS TO BEING A GOOD EMPLOYER FOR WORKING CARERS -- Seven Steps to Being a Good Employer for Working Carers -- Seven Steps -- Step 1 Identifying the Triggers -- Step 2 Scoping What Matters -- Step 3 Making the Business Case -- Step 4 Committing to Action -- Step 5 Integration and Implementation -- Signposting to External Sources -- Step 6 Engaging Stakeholders -- Step 7 Measuring and Reporting -- Focus on the 5Ps -- Take-away -- pt. 3 BUILDING A MOVEMENT -- 1. Becoming a Champion Employer of Carers -- What does ̀Corporate Responsibility' Mean for Employers of Carers? -- Preparing ẀILL-BES' -- Employees Who Will Be Caring in the Future -- Harnessing the Digital Revolution to Care for Carers Better -- Returnships -- Champion Employers as Public Policy Advocates -- Take-away -- 2. When the Carer is Their Own Boss -- Supporting Freelancers -- Take-away -- 3. Society that Cares: Creating an Enabling Environment for More Employers for Working Carers -- Governments -- Local and Regional Government and Development Agencies -- Training and Retraining Agencies and Employer Labour-Market Initiatives -- Trade Unions -- Creating Networks of Supportive Employers of Carers -- Why should a Carers Organisation Consider Devoting Scarce Resources and Energies to Creating an Employers' Network? -- Professional Associations for Human Resources Management -- Independent Financial Advisers -- Collaborative Commitments -- Take-away -- Take Care -- Conclusion. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 30, 2017). |
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Subject: | Caregivers |
Genre: | Electronic books. |