Tham khảo tài liệu 'practical applications and recommendations for hr and od professionals in the global workplace_15', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Work and Family in a Global Context 397 values. It seems possible that this finding may be due to the fact that the data come from a multinational company headquartered in the United States. That is there may be work-life advantages for employees working in the country within which a large multinational organization is headquartered. Yet the findings are again consistent with those of Spector et al. 2005 in this study participants were employed in different organizations. Of the 18 diverse countries included in Spector et al. 2005 managers in the United States reported the fourth lowest level of work-family pressure. This suggests that there is more to worklife effectiveness than country-level social policy leaving the door open for individual organizations to have a major impact on the work-life effectiveness of employees. There are a variety of factors for organizations to consider in terms of the implementation of FWA across the globe. For example in some locations in Latin America and Africa where the number of family members living at home tends to be large the houses small and the technology less advanced it may be especially difficult to implement telecommuting. However in these countries where the roads and infrastructure tend to be poor and employees spend long hours commuting from home to work the use of flexible working hours could significantly reduce time-based forms of work-family conflict Masuda Poelmans Allen 2008 . When implementing FWA policies a consideration of commute times traffic congestion patterns and access to public transportation can be useful. The challenge of effectively implementing FWA programs and policies is akin to other organizational change efforts. To have a truly agile organization flexibility is a base organizational requirement. It is not enough to develop and set FWA policy at some level organizational culture change must occur to facilitate use and acceptance of these programs as vital to the company s success Allen 2001 .
