Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide [Loose Leaf]

Stewart D. Friedman (Author), Jessica DeGroot (Author), Perry Christensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0787940224 | ISBN-13: 978-0787940225 | Edition: 1

Strike a balance!

Practical and powerful, Integrating Work and Life offers you a treasury of learning activities that were developed by leading-edge companies and by trainers, educators, and agents of change in the public and private sectors. With this guide at your side, you can help employees to achieve both business and personal success.

Employees will learn to:

Clarify life priorities and examine choices

Act in a way that is consistent with their values

Create trust, goodwill, and common ground... and much more!

Plus, you can teach current managers--and future managers--about the work/life issues employees face and how to handle these issues.

This reproducible, thoughtfully assembled collection is based on a framework developed through extensive field research. It includes role plays, case studies, self-assessments, and simulations. You can quickly select the activity you need by subject area, by teaching method, or by target audience. Conduct these easy-implementation activities and enjoy tangible results!

Try a free sample activity, Clarifying Priorities and Building a Network of Support, and learn how you can make this resource work for you!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Strike a balance!In today's hectic society, home and work can collide, leading to dissatisfaction and poor job performance. This one-of-a-kind guide gives you the training tools you need to ease work/life strain at your organization. Plus, you can use this tool kit to educate participants in your management development and human resources management courses.Practical and powerful, Integrating Work and Life offers you a treasury of learning activities that were developed by leading-edge companies and by trainers, educators, and agents of change in the public and private sectors. With this guide at your side, you can help employees to achieve both business and personal success. Employees will learn to:

• Clarify life priorities and examine choices
• Act in a way that is consistent with their values
• Create trust, goodwill, and common ground... and much more!

Plus, you can teach current managers - and future managers - about the work/life issues employees face and how to handle these issues. Managers will use these lessons to:

• Communicate clear vision, goals, and performance expectations
• Value what employees bring to the business from their multiple life roles
• Question assumptions and encourage creative experimentation in the way work is done...and much more!

These resources can help to:

• Enhance workplace satisfaction
• Improve productivity
• Boost commitment
• Aid recruitment efforts
• Reduce absenteeism and turnover...and more!

This reproducible, thoughtfully-assembled collection is based on a framework developed through extensive field research. It includes role plays, case studies, self-assessments, and simulations. You can quickly select the activity you need by subject area, by teaching method, or by target audience. Conduct these easy-implementation activities and enjoy tangible results! Work/life integration benefits both your work performance and your personal life. Work is chan

From the Back Cover

Strike a balance!

In today's hectic society, home and work can collide, leading to dissatisfaction and poor job performance. This one-of-a-kind guide gives you the training tools you need to ease work/life strain at your organization. Plus, you can use this tool kit to educate participants in your management development and human resources management courses.

Practical and powerful, Integrating Work and Life offers you a treasury of learning activities that were developed by leading-edge companies and by trainers, educators, and agents of change in the public and private sectors. With this guide at your side, you can help employees to achieve both business and personal success.

Employees will learn to:

• Clarify life priorities and examine choices
  
• Act in a way that is consistent with their values
  
• Create trust, goodwill, and common ground... and much more!

Plus, you can teach current managers - and future managers - about the work/life issues employees face and how to handle these issues. Managers will use these lessons to:

• Communicate clear vision, goals, and performance expectations
  
• Value what employees bring to the business from their multiple life roles
  
• Question assumptions and encourage creative experimentation in the way work is done...and much more!

These resources can help to:

• Enhance workplace satisfaction
  
• Improve productivity
  
• Boost commitment
  
• Aid recruitment efforts
  
• Reduce absenteeism and turnover...and more!

This reproducible, thoughtfully-assembled collection is based on a framework developed through extensive field research. It includes role plays, case studies, self-assessments, and simulations. You can quickly select the activity you need by subject area, by teaching method, or by target audience. Conduct these easy-implementation activities and enjoy tangible results! Work/life integration benefits both your work performance and your personal life.

Work is changing. Employee expectations are changing. Organizations need employees who are flexible and committed to achieving business goals; employees need organizations that are adaptable and committed to creating growth opportunities. Manage this new frontier with Integrating Work and Life.

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Product Details

• Loose Leaf: 452 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (June 26, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787940224
• ISBN-13: 978-0787940225
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 11.6 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,381,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work/life reference guide with exercises, April 7, 2000

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Sheri (Salt Lake City, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide (Loose Leaf)

This collection of articles and exercises provides "cutting edge" resources in the work/family and work/life areas. The articles cover everything from flextime to recognition of the work and family issues faced by expatriates. This information is becoming more and more important in organizations throughout the world. A glance at the annual Fortune or other magazines that focus on the best companies to work for indicate the attention being focused on these issues. Interestingly new graduates are now asking these questions about the companies they are considering working for--and companies that ignore this may find themselves less able to hire the professionals they need (and the market for these folks continues to get tighter). The guide is expensive, but collecting up the work captured within it would be incredibly time-consuming and the coverage might not be as thorough. Although it is probably intended more for a human resources professional or teacher conducting training or informing employees and managers about work/life issues it could be a useful guide to assess your own ways of balancing and integrating you work and nonwork life. There could be application for a parent or church group to use the guide as well. If you hired a consultant to inform you on these issues and/or a trainer to conduct this training it would cost a lot more and you would have to bring them back again and again. One thing that was not addressed in the guide was what I will call "family friendly backlash" found in books like The Baby Boon, but I think this guide moves beyond this controversy by focusing on work AND life, not just work AND family. It is important to recognize that these are not just issues for people with small children, but issues that impact all working people.