berufundfamilie Service GmbH – About Us
berufundfamilie Service GmbH is a service provider and the competence provider in the field of compatibility of work, family and private life.
We successfully accompany companies, institutions and universities in the implementation of a sustainable family- and life-phase-conscious personnel policy and the design of family-friendly research and study conditions.
Our central offer is the audit workandfamily (audit berufundfamilie), which was initiated by the non-profit Hertie Foundation in 1998, and the audit family-friendly university (audit familiengerechte hochschule), which was introduced in 2002. The audit is the strategic management tool that employers use to set down their personnel policies in a family and life-style manner and to increase their employer attractiveness (employer branding).
berufundfamilie Service GmbH owns the European-wide license for the audit, which is recommended by the leading associations of the German economy – BDA, BDI, DIHK and ZDH. Federal Minister of Family Affairs Lisa Paus, MdB, is the patron of the audit.
In our berufundfamilie Akademie we offer training for HR managers and other interested employer representatives. In addition, we provide further counselling on family- and life-phase-conscious personnel policy that is also open to non-certified employers.
Auditing Companies, Institutions and Universities
audit in a Nutshell
How does the audit work? And what marks a successful auditing? A short introduction:
The audit records the status quo of the family and life cycle measures already offered, systematically develops the individual potential of the company/organization and ensures that family awareness is anchored in corporate culture by means of binding target agreements. After successful completion of this process, an independent board of trustees, who are prominently represented with representatives from industry, academia, politics and associations, decides upon the issue of the certificate for the audit. The practical implementation is annually reviewed by the berufundfamilie Service GmbH.
Certificates for the audit workandfamily were first awarded in 1999. The audit family-friendly university has been offered since 2002.
What follows the first audit?
In the course of two successive re-audits – each after three years – further personnel policy targets can be agreed. This is followed by the dialogue process (for the first time after nine years), which is marked by a quality check.
The re-audits and the dialogue process are increasingly geared to the individual degree of the maturity of the family and life-phase-conscious personnel policy of the organization and place the accent on review and company-specific deepening.
In adapting your special requirements the respective auditing can highlight topics such as:
- family and life-phase leadership
- compatibility of work and care
- health management
- generation management
- internationality
- diversity
- dealing with different lifestyles
The certificate – quality seal for family- and life-conscious personnel policy
A successful audit will be rewarded with the certificate – the quality seal with a three-year term. With the successful dialogue process, which follows the third audit at the ealiest, the employers receive the certificate with distinction. Since 1998 more than 1,800 employers have been awarded the audit certificate.
What effects do you gain from the audit?
The successful compatibility of work, family and private life results in a clear and noticeable win-win situation.
Employers win
- positive business effects1
- lower absenteeism and sickness rates
- heightened identification, motivation and satisfaction among the employees or the students
- increased productivity in the workforce
- improved HR marketing and higher candidate quality
- retention of professionals
- increasing employer attractiveness or the attractiveness of the university as a place of work and study
- answers to the challenges of the workplace such as skills shortage and demographic change
1 Source: Forschungszentrum Familienbewusste Personalpolitik (FFP) 2013
Employees and applicants as well as students gain
- transparent and reliable offers for better compatibility
- improved prerequisites which do justice to a job or study as well as family and private life equally and make it worth living
- an improved working atmosphere and an appreciative work or study environment
- recognition and consideration of life phases and lifestyles – in terms of higher individualization
- greater satisfaction in daily work
audit family-friendly university: Systematic Process Control for Universities, Colleges and Academies
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The course of the audit family-friendly university includes…
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The fields of action of the audit family-friendly university
The following eight fields of action form the framework for the goals and measures of your family-friendly working and study conditions:
- working, research and study time
- work, research and study organisation
- work, research and study location
- information and communications
- leadership/management
- human resources development and scientific qualification
- compensation, benefits and student financing
- service for families
audit workandfamily: Strategic Management Tool for Companies and Institutions
The audit workandfamily (audit berufundfamilie) is a strategic management tool that companies and institutions use to align their HR policies with family and life-conscious awareness. Employers who use the audit work together with us to provide tailor-made and needs-based measures.
The process of auditing is a systematic process. The main topics of HR policy for the reconciliation of work, family and private life are brought together. The procedure is designed according to the structure and degree of development of your company or institution.
The course of the audit workandfamily includes…
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The fields of action of the audit workandfamily
Along the following eight fields of action, the goals and measures of your family- and life-phase-conscious personnel policy are developed:
- working time
- work organisation
- work location
- information and communications
- leadership/management
- human resources development
- compensation and benefits
- service for families
Case Study
Eine familien- und lebensphasenbewusste Personalpolitik gestalten – Wie funktioniert das in der betrieblichen Praxis? Die hier platzierte Case Study zeigt Ihnen beispielhaft, wie die berufundfamilie Arbeitgeber darin unterstützt, ihr individuelles Potenzial zu nutzen und zu tragfähigen und nachhaltigen Lösungen zu gelangen.
Langzeit-Case Study
Der Fall audit berufundfamilie: Die GP Grenzach Produktions GmbH
und ihre Organisationsentwicklung
Die Studie „Vereinbarkeit 2020“ zeigt: Homeoffice, Teilzeit und Job-Sharing allein machen die Karrieren Ihrer Beschäftigten noch nicht steuerbar.
Erstellt gemeinsam mit dem Institut für Beschäftigung und Employability (IBE) an der Hochschule Ludwigshafen
Blog
Presseveröffentlichungen
Nachhaltig familienbewusst
LOHN+GEHALT (Ausg. 2/2024, ET: 09.04.2024)
Schichtarbeit und Familie: Wie passt das unter einen Hut?
dpa-Themendienst/ dpa-infocomm (hier Link auf Veröffentlichung bei Süddeutsche.de, 04.01.2024)
Angebote für Väter sind nur selten Teil des Employer Brandings
Immobilien Zeitung (Ausg. 38-39/2023)/ IZ.de (28.09.2023)
Unternehmens-Politik bei Kita-Ausfall (Kurzinterview)
Deutschlandfunk, Campus & Karriere (07.08.2023)