Take care : how to be a great employer for working carers / by David Grayson.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 30, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Take Care is a practical guide that will enable 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.

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 WHY CARE FOR CARERS? -- 1. Caring and Carers -- Who is a ̀Carer'? -- Why should We Care about Caring? -- Working Carers -- Caring, Reducing or Giving up Work and Impact on Family Finances -- Triggers to Giving up Work -- Caring is Invaluable But Economically Undervalued -- Who Cares? Carer Archetypes -- Take-away -- 2. Caring Journey: Despatches from the Frontline -- Stages of the Caring Journey -- What Employers Need to Know about the Caring Journey -- "Sandwich Generation": Growth in Caring Responsibilities for Parents and Children -- What do Working Carers Need? -- How Support For Caring Has Evolved Around the World -- Take-away -- 3. Care in the Community and the Workplace: The Business Case for Action by Employers and Society -- Why Business and Other Employers should Care about Working Carers -- Lost Productivity -- Recruitment and Retention Costs -- Widening Skills Gap -- Losing Out on the Value of the Ageing Workforce -- Retaining Working Carers: An Employee Engagement Challenge -- Corporate Social Opportunities Created by Engaging Carers -- Take-away -- pt. 2 SEVEN STEPS TO BEING A GOOD EMPLOYER FOR WORKING CARERS -- Seven Steps to Being a Good Employer for Working Carers -- Seven Steps -- Step 1 Identifying the Triggers -- Step 2 Scoping What Matters -- Step 3 Making the Business Case -- Step 4 Committing to Action -- Step 5 Integration and Implementation -- Signposting to External Sources -- Step 6 Engaging Stakeholders -- Step 7 Measuring and Reporting -- Focus on the 5Ps -- Take-away -- pt. 3 BUILDING A MOVEMENT -- 1. Becoming a Champion Employer of Carers -- What does ̀Corporate Responsibility' Mean for Employers of Carers? -- Preparing ẀILL-BES' -- Employees Who Will Be Caring in the Future -- Harnessing the Digital Revolution to Care for Carers Better -- Returnships -- Champion Employers as Public Policy Advocates -- Take-away -- 2. When the Carer is Their Own Boss -- Supporting Freelancers -- Take-away -- 3. Society that Cares: Creating an Enabling Environment for More Employers for Working Carers -- Governments -- Local and Regional Government and Development Agencies -- Training and Retraining Agencies and Employer Labour-Market Initiatives -- Trade Unions -- Creating Networks of Supportive Employers of Carers -- Why should a Carers Organisation Consider Devoting Scarce Resources and Energies to Creating an Employers' Network? -- Professional Associations for Human Resources Management -- Independent Financial Advisers -- Collaborative Commitments -- Take-away -- Take Care -- Conclusion.

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