Overview

There could be as many as 300 million caregivers in the global workforce providing care for loved ones - elderly parents, a life-partner with a health condition, or a disabled child/sibling or close friend who needs support. As populations age around the world and welfare support declines, the number of people voluntarily caring for another will grow. However, despite the demands and pressures that caregivers are under, many organisations offer little practical support to employees - support that, if provided correctly, will benefit both employee and employer. Take Care is a practical guide that enables employers to better understand and support employees with caring responsibilities. It presents this as part of good management practice that strengthens organizational resilience and sustainability, and also argues that this is now an integral element of being a responsible employer and organisation. The book includes practical examples from more than fifty employers around the world, from small businesses to global enterprises, as well as public sector and NGO examples. It also features the personal stories of individuals in the workplace who have successfully championed change.

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Author:   David Grayson (Cranfield University, UK)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.412kg
ISBN:  

9781787142930

ISBN 10:   1787142930
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   10 July 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

FOREWORDS; IAN PETERS chairman Employers for Carers, UK and ARA CRESSWELL, CEO Carers AustraliaPREFACE: “Work: the chance to be me!”  INTRODUCTION: Working and caring: this is personal  PART 1: WHY CARE FOR CARERS?  Chapter 1: Caring and carers  Chapter 2: The Caring Journey: Despatches from the frontline  Chapter 3: Care In The Community And The Workplace - The business case for action by employers and society  PART 2: SEVEN STEPS TO BEING A GOOD EMPLOYER FOR WORKING CARERS   Step 1: Triggers for change   Step 2: Scoping what matters   Step 3: Making the business case   Step 4: Committing to action   Step 5: Integration and implementation   Step 6: Engaging stakeholders   Step 7: Measuring and reporting  SMES & CARERS  Remember the 5Ps!  PART 3: BUILDING A MOVEMENT  Chapter 1: Champions! Becoming A Great Employer for Working Carers  Chapter 2: When The Carer Is Their Own Boss – Supporting Freelancers   Chapter 3: A Society That Cares: Creating An Enabling Environment For More Employers for Working Carers Governments  Local and regional authorities  Skills training agencies  Trade Unions  Business organisations & Corporate Responsibility Coalitions  Freelancers’ co-operatives  HR professional development associations and business schools  Independent Financial Advisers  CONCLUSION: TOWARDS A PARADIGM SHIFT

Reviews

The author describes how employers around the world can support employees who are balancing their jobs with caring for loved ones. He discusses the role of caring in being human and why employers and society need to support those who are working carers, including the business case for doing so; a seven-step framework drawn from his book Corporate Social Opportunity, to improve employer support; and how organizations can develop their operational practices even further, including how to support carers who are freelancers and how governments and other organizations and networks can build an enabling environment for taking care of working carers. Profiles of different employers and how they help working carers in various countries are provided throughout. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *

Author Information

David Grayson is Professor of Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield University School of Management. He joined the world of management education in 2007 after a 30-year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business and diversity. This included founding Project North East (now PNE Group) — an innovative economic development social enterprise that has worked in nearly 60 countries), and serving as a Managing Director of the responsible business network Business in the Community. He has been a Visiting Senior Fellow at the CSR Initiative of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and a Visiting Fellow at several UK and American business schools. David has chaired or served on various charity, social enterprise and public sector boards, including the National Co-operative Development Agency, The Prince of Wales’ Innovation Trust, the Strategic Rail Authority, Housing21 and the National Disability Council. He currently chairs Carers UK. During his career, he has done work with numerous multinationals as well as for the OECD, EU and World Bank. He sits on the Corporate Responsibility stakeholder advisory groups for Camelot and for Lloyds Bank; is part of the Circle of Advisers for Business Fights Poverty and for the Asian Institute of Management’s Ramon V. del Rosario, Sr. Center for Corporate Social Responsibility. He is part of the faculty of The Forward Institute. He was awarded an OBE for services to industry in 1994 and a CBE for services to disability in 1999. David has written several books on responsible business, sustainability and social intrapreneurism. The Guardian has named David as one of 10 top global tweeters on sustainable leadership alongside Al Gore, Tim Cook (CEO of Apple), Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) and Kumi Naidoo (the head of Greenpeace International). @DavidGrayson_

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