Friendly-Family Policies in the Public Agencies

Public administrators play a critical role in implementing human resource policies. They achieve to find a balance between creating policies in response to changes in the American workforce family demographics and ensuring employee job satisfaction. This paper will explore family-friendly policies, specifically child care policies, paid family care leave, telecommuting, and alternative or flexible work schedule. In exchange, employers who support family-friendly policies will directly benefit from these policies because they will be able to retain and recruit qualifying employees. In addition, this study will further address the question of why family-friendly policies matter in public agencies. Do friendly-family policies increase employees' job satisfaction among public sector employees? Random samples were taken of employees from the Department of Public Social Services, Department of Mental Health, and Department of Children and Family Services within the County of Los Angeles. The tools used to gather data will be from emailed questionnaire and survey. Data was used to evaluate the qualitative data based on participants' responses. As a result of the research, policy recommendations will be submitted to the County of Los Angeles's Board of Supervisors for further review and future implementation of the policies.