Description
American workers today are in a bind. Employees are being asked to work harder and longer just when demands on the home front have escalated due to changing family structures. More women than ever are in the work force, and there are increasing numbers of employed single parents. As a result, careet goals and expectations are shifting radically Many businesses are struggling to addres the problem of coordinating work and privat life, but thus far these efforts have beer largely unsuccessful. Lotte Bailyn, an MIT professor and consultant to a number of major corporations, argues that unless American business is willing to radically rethink its basic assumptions about career paths, management strategies, and the time clock, both employee and employer will face increasing work force problems in the upcoming century.
Drawing on her research and consulting work, Bailyn discusses basic change in the corporate mind-set. She shows, for example, the importance and profitability of flexible workdays and the value of new ways of thinking about time in work. She details the option of working at home or in the office. In addition, she shows how a corporation can rethink its career path rules to avoid the loss of valuable employees because of work/home conflicts. ISBN:9780029012819 
