Strategic role of managers for the utilization of family-friendly workplace policies: a social responsibility perspective

Abstract

This paper addresses the need for organizational responsiveness to family-friendly workplace policies and examines the strategic role of managers for their implementation to organizations. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate if the key managers, who are in position to utilize the family-friendly workplace policies, take the initiative to do so with the possible effect of their personal opinions/personal lives since there is still a huge gap between formal family-friendly business policies and their informal applications in organizations. Therefore, this paper has some propositions and suggestions to improve practical adjustment of the family-friendly policies, which stresses on their advantages to the organizations and to overall society's well-being from the social responsibility perspective depending on the key managers in organizations.