Work and Family - Allies or Enemies?
What Happens When Business Professionals Confront Life Choices
Oxford UP, 2000
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Career & Self-Development
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- How to learn to balance work and family life so that they have a positive effect on each other
- Why companies need to create more workplace flexibility
- Why children inevitably suffer in the juggling act between career and home
Why you should read Work and Family - Allies or Enemies?
Stewart D. Friedman and Jeffrey H. Greenhaus conducted extensive research with 861 alumni of the business schools at Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, both in Philadelphia. Their research yielded revealing results about the struggle of professionals to manage work and family commitments. However, Friedman and Greenhaus present these results in such overwhelming statistical detail that the average reader is in danger of being swamped. This is especially the case when the data proves principals that most people already grasp through common sense and experience. That said, getAbstract recognizes that the authors have done working Joes and Janes a great service by aggregating numbers to back up the notion that it’s getting tougher to balance family and career. As such, this is an important book for anyone in a position to set workplace policy.
About the authors
Stewart D. Friedman is a professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he directs the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. He has advised Al Gore on work and family issues. Jeffrey H. Greenhaus is a professor of management, commerce and engineering at Drexel University. He has authored or co-authored three books.
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