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Work and family : policies for a changing work force

Title
Work and family : policies for a changing work force / edited by Marianne A. Ferber and Brigid O'Farrell with La Rue Allen ; Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families, Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors
  • Ferber, Marianne A., 1923-2013.
  • O'Farrell, Brigid.
  • Allen, LaRue, 1950-
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues. Panel on Employer Policies and Working Families.
Description
ix, 260 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Considers how to meet the needs of workers and their families while maintaining a healthy economy.
Subject
  • Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  • Dual-career families > United States
  • Work and family > United States
  • Employment (Economic theory)
  • Employment
  • Family
  • employing
  • Dual-career families
  • Work and family
  • Berufstätigkeit
  • Eltern
  • Familienpolitik
  • Familienökonomie
  • dual career couple
  • working mother
  • social implication
  • economic implication
  • family benefit
  • leave of absence
  • child care
  • elder care
  • employment
  • social policy
  • statistical table
  • ménage à double carrière
  • mère exerçant un emploi
  • conséquences sociales
  • conséquences économiques
  • prestations familiales
  • autorisation d'absence
  • soins aux enfants
  • soins aux personnes âgées
  • emploi
  • politique sociale
  • tableau statistique
  • pareja con doble carrera
  • trabajadora madre de familia
  • consecuencias sociales
  • consecuencias económicas
  • prestaciones familiares
  • permiso
  • cuidado infantil
  • asistencia a las personas de edad avanzada
  • empleo
  • política social
  • cuadros estadísticos
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
  • Etats-Unis
  • Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • graph.
  • bibliographie.
  • graphique.
  • bibliografía.
  • gráfico.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-232) and index.
Contents
Designing for technological change : people in the process / Edward O. Laumann, Gerald Nadler, and Brigid O'Farrell -- Improving the development, acceptance, and use of new technology : organizational and interorganizational challenges / Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Part 1. Automated manufacturing technologies -- Capitalizing on new manufacturing technologies : current problems and emergent trends in U.S. industry / Paul S. Adler -- Design and implementation of a process for a large-scale system change at Boeing / Bruce Gissing -- A case history of organizational change : people and new technology / James R. Hettenhaus -- Achieving excellence through people, technology, and teamwork / Joseph C. High -- Part 2. Medical technologies -- The process of adopting innovations in organizations : three cases of hospital innovations / Andrew H. Van de Ven -- Managing the ambulatory care unit / H. Robert Cathcart -- Technology and intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit / John M. Driscoll, Jr. and Charles J.H. Stolar -- Operations research in nurse scheduling / Thomas Choi, Helen Jameson, and Milo L. Brekke -- Part 3. Office automation technologies -- Integrating new tools into information work : technology transfer as a framework for understanding success / T.K. Bikson and J.D. Eveland -- The Forest Service information system / Charles R. Hartgraves -- Introducing a computer-based human resource system into the United Way / Robert J. Krasman -- Telecommunication in the news industry : the newsroom before and after computers / Wilson R. Locke -- A business approach to technology : Shearson Lehman Commercial Paper Inc. / Signe A. von Verdo (Weber).
ISBN
  • 0309042771
  • 9780309042772
LCCN
91025484
OCLC
  • ocm24106078
  • 24106078
  • SCSB-1930612
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library