Workplace flexibility : realigning 20th-century jobs for a 21st-century workforce /

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, consi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Christensen, K. (Kathleen), Schneider, Barbara L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, 2010.
Temas:
Flexible work arrangements > United States.
Work and family > United States.
Conditions de travail flexibles > États-Unis.
Travail et familles > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Human Resources & Personnel Management.
Horaire variable de travail.
Conciliation de la vie professionnelle et familiale.
Lieu de travail.
Offre de main-d'oeuvre.
Flexible work arrangements
Work and family
Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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