Elder Care and New Work-lLfe Balance Polices

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285112
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Chuo University (2014-2015); The University of Tokyo (2013)
• Principal Investigator: Hiroki SATO 中央大学, その他の研究科, 教授 (60162468)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): TAKEISHI Emiko 法政大学, キャリアデザイン学部, 教授 (70361631) ; ASAI Yukiko 東京大学, 社会科学研究所, 研究員 (10588172)
• Research Collaborator: MTSUURA Tamie
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 仕事と介護の両立 / ワーク・ライフ・バランス / 介護離職

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Faced with the expanding aging population in Japan, this project examined the necessary support that could be provided by private employers and public eldercare policies, which would enable full-time employees to balance work and eldercare. First, we explored what kind of support employers can offer to employees with eldercare responsibilities. This was done by comparing employees who felt anxious about the possibility of having to balance work and eldercare and those who felt they can manage both. Second, we surveyed ‘Care Managers (social workers who specialise in designing eldercare plans)’ to find out the challenges they face in creating care plans for families with full-time employees. Third, we outlined company transfer strategies that employers need to adopt in order to taken into account employees with eldercare responsibilities.

Free Research Field

人的資源管理