Breaking the Mold: Women, Men, and Time in the New Corporate WorldMost businesses' efforts to coordinate work and private life have been unsuccessful. Now an MIT professor and noted consultant to Xerox, Exxon, Honeywell, and others shows how businesses can rethink career paths, management strategies, and the time clock to reap greater benefits for themselves and their employees. |
Contents
The World We Live In | 1 |
Managing Well? | 13 |
Defining Career Success | 26 |
Occupational Demands and | 40 |
Success? | 55 |
Family as an Emerging Issue for Organizations | 64 |
Rethinking Time and Autonomy | 79 |
Failure? | 97 |
Rethinking Commitment and Equity | 105 |
Pathways to Change | 121 |
Envisioning the Future | 139 |
Notes | 151 |
Bibliography | 175 |
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