The largest social change in the last 50 years has been the
increase in the number of women, especially mothers of young
children, in the formal work force The May 2006 and June 2006
volumes of American Behavioral Scientist look at how this powerful
transformation has impacted the venerable foundations of work and
family, and reflect on the changes needed in organizational
practices, social and public policy, families, and society in
general to adapt to the changing 21st century workforce.
Changes at the Intersection of Work and Family: Organizational
and Worker Perspectives, Volume 1 (May 2006), edited by Diane F.
Halpern and Heidi Riggio, focuses on organizational and worker
perspectives. Many studies have shown that there is a substantial
and practical return-on-investment for employers that adopt and
commit to policies that help employees better manage the needs of
both work and family, including fewer missed days of work, fewer
"come late" or "leave early" days, reduced employee turnover,
improved morale, and a better commitment to the employer. Volume 1
emphasizes topics such as the need for improved work-life policies,
successful and promising public policy approaches, long-term
work-life case studies from IBM, the dual-earner 60-hour work week,
work-family and obesity and other health issues, the real and
perceived negative consequences of taking advantage of
family-friendly policies, the differences between male and female
caregivers, and a whole-life approach to managing work and
family.
Changes at the Intersection of Work and Family: Family
Perspectives, Volume 2 (June 2006), edited by Heidi Riggio and
Diane F. Halpern, highlights family perspectives and issues such as
working parents' expanding need for child care, after-school care,
elder care, and medical leave. The six articles in this volume
examine how policymakers and organizations can help maximize
working families' health, productivity and happiness.
Volume 2 covers subjects such as maternal employment and healthy
child and young adult development, how working affects mothers'
self-identity and other positive factors, the stress of parents
coping with after-school child care, why community programs and
support such as after-school programs are so necessary to working
families, and how dual-earning households mutually influence each
others retirement planning.
The same important point is made in all of the articles in both
volumes: there are tremendous changes taking place in families and
in workplaces, and social, organizational, and public policies must
be better aligned to meet to the needs of and to benefit from the
greater diversity in today s families and workforce. Written by
outstanding scholars and researchers in public policy, economics,
sociology, psychology, business, and family studies, including
Barbara Gault, Vicky Lovell, E. Jeffrey Hill et al., Tammy D.
Allen, Jeremy Armstrong, Robert Drago et al., Noelle Chesley,
Stewart D. Friedman, Allen W. Gottfried, Adele E. Gottfried,
Patricia M. Raskin, Rosalind C. Barnett, Karen C. Gareis, Marcie
Pitts-Catasouphes, and Phyllis Moen, the articles in both volumes
ask critical questions and offer some interesting and sensible
solutions to the changing realities of work and family.
These volumes should be in the library and in the classrooms of
everyone interested in Public Policy, Business/Management,
Psychology, Family Studies, Sociology, and Economics."
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