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Breaking the mold : redesigning work for productive and satisfying lives / Lotte Bailyn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2006Edition: Second edition, [New ed.]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 184 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501705045
  • 1501705040
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Breaking the mold.DDC classification:
  • 306.3/6 22
LOC classification:
  • HD4904.25 .B33 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the world we live in -- Interlude I: Nancy Wright : success? -- Organizational constraints : defining the road to success -- Individual constraints : occupational demands on private life -- Family as a complicating issue for organizations -- Interlude II: Elizabeth Gray : failure? -- Rethinking commitment and time -- Rethinking equity and control -- Pathways to change -- Interlude III: The Thompsons : promise of things to come? -- Envisioning the future.
Summary: Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them. Unless American business is willing to radically rethink some of its basic assumptions about work, career paths, and time, both employee and employer will suffer in today's intensely competitive business environment.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-177) and index.

Introduction : the world we live in -- Interlude I: Nancy Wright : success? -- Organizational constraints : defining the road to success -- Individual constraints : occupational demands on private life -- Family as a complicating issue for organizations -- Interlude II: Elizabeth Gray : failure? -- Rethinking commitment and time -- Rethinking equity and control -- Pathways to change -- Interlude III: The Thompsons : promise of things to come? -- Envisioning the future.

Lotte Bailyn argues that society's separation of work and family is no longer a tenable model for employees or the organizations that employ them. Unless American business is willing to radically rethink some of its basic assumptions about work, career paths, and time, both employee and employer will suffer in today's intensely competitive business environment.

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