Employee benefits and high-tech fatherhood

摘要: Purpose – This study, inspired by the theory of separate spheres, considers social circumstances employee benefits, examining needs fathers in dual-earner families to cope with work and family responsibilities. The purpose this paper is explore how high-tech managers view work-family interface R & D engineers analyzes typical package discretionary, non-financial, benefits. Design/methodology/approach Relying on phenomenological approach, in-depth, semi-structured interviews 22 private-sector disclosed their shared perception experience, revealing informal level at which underlying principles becomes business strategy, often intuitively. Findings Values gender are assimilated into environment reflected selection benefits have been effective attracting labor demand. Recently these values challenged new ideas more involved fatherhood, inad...