chapter 28
....................................................................................................................................................FAMILY-FRIENDLY,
EQUAL-
OPPORTUNITY,
AND HIGH-
INVOLVEMENT
MANAGEMENT
IN BRITAIN
....................................................................................................................................stephen wood
lilian m. de menezes
28.1 Introduction
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Family-friendly, equal-opportunity, and high-involvement initiatives have in-
creasingly been at the forefront of discussions of human resource management
since the 1990 s. They are widely viewed by academics and policy makers as critical
ways of simultaneously improving the well-being of workers and the eYciency of
organizations. Moreover, they are often presented as related practices. In this