Research Catalog

Title

Workplace sabbaticals : bonus or entitlement? / Daniel C. Kramer.

Author

Kramer, Daniel C., 1934-

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2001.

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Description

xi, 190 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "Sabbaticals for everyone? Not quite, but there's plenty of good reason to extend them beyond academia and into selected sectors of the world outside. Lawyer and teacher Daniel C. Kramer shows from his own meticulous research and others' that workplace sabbatical programs have produced greater benefits than costs, and that they could be spread to most of the American work force with only a simple amendment or two to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
• Workplace sabbaticals must be conceived and administrated commonsensically, of course, and there will always be places where they won't work. But there's enough evidence that they will work - primarily in organizations of more than 50 people - and in the public and private sectors both. Kramer presents a challenging, thought-provoking book for policy and executive decision-makers throughout the country, and new fuel for debate within the academic community as well."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Leave of absence
• Sabbatical leave

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

Contents

1. Work and Its Problems -- 2. The Sabbatical: Not an Idea to Be Dismissed Offhand -- 3. Utilitarianism as the Guideline for Public Policymakers? -- 4. Sabbatical Autobiographies -- 5. The Sabbatical Experience I: Business Other Than High-Tech; Lawyers; Doctors -- 6. The Sabbatical Experience II: High-Tech and Government -- 7. The Sabbatical Experience III: Nonprofits; Primary and Secondary Education; Religion -- 8. Sabbaticals Outside the Halls of Ivy: More Gain Than Pain -- 9. Some Legislatively Mandated Leave Programs -- 10. Sabbaticals Outside Academia: The Appropriate Public Policy.

ISBN

1567204252 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00051758

OCLC

• ocm45243274
• SCSB-4140025

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries