Breaking the Mold

Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

AvLotte Bailyn

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In Breaking the Mold, 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. Bailyn's message was bold when this book was originally published in 1993. Now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest developments in the organization of work, the demography of the workforce, and attitudes toward the integration of work and personal life, this second edition is even more compelling.Bailyn finds that implementation of policies designed to allow "flexibility" is rarely smooth and often results in gender inequity. Using real-life cases to illustrate the problems employees encounter in coordinating work and private life, she details how corporations generally handle these problems and suggests models for innovation. Throughout, she shows how the structure and culture of corporate life could be changed to integrate employees' other obligations and interests, and in the process help organizations become more effective. Drawing on international comparisons as well as many years of working with organizations of various kinds, Bailyn emphasizes the need to redesign work itself.Breaking the Mold allows us to rethink the connections between organizational processes and personal concerns. Implementation of Bailyn's suggestions could help employees to become more effective in all realms of their complicated lives and allow employing organizations to engage their full productive potential.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2006-07-07
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
Upplaga2
FörlagCornell University Press
ISBN9780801443923

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Ledarskapsböcker inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

1. Introduction: The World We Live In Interlude I. Nancy Wright: Success? 2.Organizational Constraints: Defining the Road to Success 3. Individual Constraints: Occupational Demands on Private Life 4. Family as a Complicating Issue for Organizations Interlude II. Elizabeth Gray: Failure? 5. Rethinking Commitment and Time 6. Rethinking Equity and Control 7. Pathways to Change Interlude III. The Thompsons: Promise of Things to Come? 8. Envisioning the Future

In the second edition of Breaking the Mold, Lotte Bailyn presents a compelling case for moving away from restrictive assumptions of organizational life and creating a new set of assumptions to facilitated success at work and at home. Bailyn has revised and updated her short and immensely readable work in light of the political, social, and economic changes the country has undergone since the publication of the first edition in 1993, including a significant shift in the demographics of the workplace. The result is a timely and thoughtful look at how employers and employees today must reconsider the conditions of employment and the link between the public and private spheres in a changing world. Throughout the book, Bailyn uses well-integrated vignettes and case studies to illustrate how outmoded assumptions about work and life can negatively impact both employers and employees, and what those willing to rethink these assumptions can achieve.- Delaney Anderson (Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law)