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Title

Workplace flexibility : realigning 20th-century jobs for a 21st-century workforce / edited by Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider.

Publication

Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Christensen, K. (Kathleen)
• Schneider, Barbara L.

Description

xi, 408 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Publisher: Although today's family has changed, the workplace has not-and the resulting one-size-fits-all workplace has become profoundly mismatched to the needs of an increasingly diverse and varied workforce. As changes in the composition of the workforce exert new demands on employers, considerable attention is being paid to how workplaces can be structured more flexibly to achieve the goals of employers and employees. Workplace Flexibility brings together sixteen essays authored by leading experts in economics, demography, political science, law, sociology, anthropology, and management. Collectively, they make the case for workplace flexibility, as well as examine existing business practices and public policy regarding flexibility in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Workplace Flexibility underscores the need to realign the structure of work in time and place with the needs of the changing workforce. Considering the positive and negative consequences for employer and employee alike, the authors argue that, although there is not an easy solution to creating and implementing flexibility practices-in the United States or abroad-redesigning the workplace is essential if today's workers are effectively to meet the demands of life and work and if employers are successfully able to attract and retain top talent and improve performance. Kathleen Christensen is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and coeditor of Contingent Work: American Employment Relations in Transition, also from Cornell. Barbara Schneider is John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor in the College of Education and the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University and a Senior Fellow, NORC and The University of Chicago. She is coeditor of The AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research.

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Subject

• Flexible work arrangements > United States
• Work and family > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Evidence of the worker and workplace mismatch / Kathleen Christensen Barbara Schneider -- Part 1: -- Twenty-First-Century Workers and Family Life -- 1: Long reach of the job: employment and time for family life / Suzanne M Bianchi and Vanessa R Wight -- 2: Multitasking among working families: a strategy for dealing with the time squeeze / Shira Offer and Barbara Schneider -- 3: Coming together at dinner: a study of working families / Elinor Ochs, Merav Shohet, Belinda Campos and Margaret Beck -- Part 2: -- Misfit Between Old Workplaces And A New Workforce -- 4: Customizing careers by opting out or shifting jobs: dual-earners seeking life-course "fit" / Phyllis Moen and Qinlei Huang -- 5: Keeping engaged parents on the road to success / Sylvia Ann Hewlett -- 6: Elderly labor supply: work or play? / Steven J Haider and David S Loughran -- Part 3: -- Workplace Flexibility: Voluntary Employer Practices In The United States -- 7: Employer-provided workplace flexibility Ellen Galinsky, Kelly Sakai, Sheila Eby, James T Bond and Tyler Wigton -- 8: Will the real family-friendly employer please stand up: who permits work hour reductions for childcare? / Robert Hutchens and Patrick Nolen -- 9: Workplace flexibility for federal civilian employees / Kathleen Christensen, Matthew Weinshenker and Blake Sisk -- 10: Odd disconnect: our family-hostile public policy / Joan C Williams -- Part 4: -- Workplace Flexibility: Practices From Abroad -- 11: Limiting working time and supporting flexibility for employees: public policy lessons from Europe / Janet C Gornick -- 12: Parents' experiences of flexible work arrangements in changing european workplaces / Suzan Lewis and Laura den Dulk -- 13: Work hours mismatch in the United States and Australia / Robert Drago and Mark Wooden -- 14: Renewed energy for change: government policies supporting workplace flexibility in Australia / Juliet Bourke -- 15: Flexible employment and the introduction of work-life balance programs in Japan / Machiko Osawa -- 16: Government policies supporting workplace flexibility: the state of play in Japan / Sumiko Iwao -- Conclusions: Solving the workplace/workforce mismatch / Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780801448607 (alk. paper)
• 0801448603 (alk. paper)
• 9780801475856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0801475856 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009032784

OCLC

430522958

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Harvard Library