Why managers supporting childcare-friendly policies-An quantitative analysis

• Main Author: 何昭蓉
• Other Authors: 謝美娥
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04996164353753637403

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會工作研究所 === 102 === 　　　　 In accordance with the rising social awareness of work-family balance issue, governmental policies and employers are more concerned with employees’ family life. However, whether the childcare-friendly policy in the firm can be applicable for the employees in need or not depends largely on the attitude of their managers in the workplace. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to understand the managers’ attitude to childcare-friendly policy and the related factors influencing their attitude. A total of 227 valid samples from managers were collected through 2 means: (1) Purposive sampling in 3 EMBA classes in national universities and (2) Snowball sampling online. The findings are as follows: 1. Among all the related factors of the managers, only their age, marital status, and whether they have children on their own are significantly correlated with their supportive attitude towards the childcare friendly policy. Managers aging less than 35 years old only support on parental leave. Managers who are married or not married support on-site childcare more than the divorced ones. As for managers who don’t have children support friendly childcare policies more than those do. There is a not significant correlation between managers’ gender and their supportive attitude. 2. As for corporate environment factors, significant correlation to supportive attitude on child-care friendly policy exists with the scale of firm, the industrial classification of firm, union in existence, preventing policies of sexual harassment in place, the attribute of employee, and family-friendly culture. Managers who work in firms (1) with more than 250 employees, (2) positioned in finance industry, (3) implanting sexual harassment education (4) with high proportion of professionals and (5) family-friendly culture, have higher supportive attitude. 3. There are significant positive correlation between manager’s experience of utilizing childcare-friendly policies, their functional awareness of the policies, and their gender consciousness to their total supportive attitude among managers’ cognitive and experience measures. Lastly, there are some suggestions provided as follows. First, the government should enforce stronger supervision over small and medium enterprises on the execution of the policy, understand why some enterprises cannot implement the policy to devise solutions, inspect and pose proper punishment on enterprises not fully complying with the policy. Further, government should also invite experienced specialists to share their thoughts in sessions, create friendly corporate environment from user’s perspective, re-educate managers on family care, and design creative working modes and so on.