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This handbook provides an overview of the research on the changing nature of work and workers by marshalling interdisciplinary research to summarize the empirical evidence and provide documentation of what has actually changed. Connections are explored between the changing nature of work and macro-level trends in technological change, income inequality, global labor markets, labor unions, organizational forms, and skill polarization, among others. This edited volume also reviews evidence for changes in workers, including generational change (or lack thereof), that has accumulated across domains. Based on documented changes in work and worker behavior, the handbook derives implications for a range of management functions, such as selection, performance management, leadership, workplace ethics, and employee well-being. This evaluation of the extent of changes and their impact gives guidance on what best practices should be put in place to harness these developments to achieve success.

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"Care is a human ability we all need for growing and flourishing. It implies considering the needs and interests of others, and the quality of how we relate to each other is often defined by care. While the value of care in private life is widely recognized, its role in the public sphere is contested and subject to political debates. In work organizations, instrumentality frequently overrides considerations for colleagues and coworker's wellbeing, while relationships are often sacrificed in the service of performance and meeting organizational targets. The questions this volume attempts to address concerns the organizational conditions that make care flourish and how a caring organization functions in practice. Specifically, we examine what it means to care for each other and what enhances caring behaviors in organizations. The volume ultimately focuses on how caring relations can contribute to making organizations better places. In this perspective, care involves the recognition of, and the limitations of, work as a key aspect of personal and social identity. Because care exceeds the sphere of individual intimacy, the book will also centre on the necessity for building caring institutions through a political process that considers the needs, contributions, and prospects of many different actors. This book aims to contribute to academic discussions on care in organizations, care work, business and organizational ethics, diversity, caring leadership, wellbeing in organizations, and research ethics. Managers, consultants, policy-makers, and students will find reflections about the goodness of care in organizations, and guidance about the ethical and practical difficulties of pursuing the project of building caring organizations"--

Business ethics. --- Organizational behavior. --- Organizational sociology. --- Quality of work life. --- Well-being. --- Welfare (Personal well-being) --- Wellbeing --- Quality of life --- Happiness --- Health --- Wealth --- Humanization of work life --- Quality of working life --- Work life, Quality of --- Working life, Quality of --- Work --- Organization (Sociology) --- Organization theory --- Sociology of organizations --- Sociology --- Bureaucracy --- Behavior in organizations --- Management --- Organization --- Psychology, Industrial --- Social psychology --- Business --- Businesspeople --- Commercial ethics --- Corporate ethics --- Corporation ethics --- Professional ethics --- Moral and ethical aspects

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Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies—and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom lineToday's ways of working are not working—even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with less, even as new technologies normalize 24/7 job expectations. In Overload, Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen document how this new intensification of work creates chronic stress, leading to burnout, attrition, and underperformance. "Flexible" work policies and corporate lip service about "work-life balance" don't come close to fixing the problem. But this unhealthy and unsustainable situation can be changed—and Overload shows how.Drawing on five years of research, including hundreds of interviews with employees and managers, Kelly and Moen tell the story of a major experiment that they helped design and implement at a Fortune 500 firm. The company adopted creative and practical work redesigns that gave workers more control over how and where they worked and encouraged managers to evaluate performance in new ways. The result? Employees' health, wellbeing, and ability to manage their personal and work lives improved, while the company benefitted from higher job satisfaction and lower turnover. And, as Kelly and Moen show, such changes can—and should—be made on a wide scale.Complete with advice about ways that employees, managers, and corporate leaders can begin to question and fix one of today's most serious workplace problems, Overload is an inspiring account of how rethinking and redesigning work could transform our lives and companies.

Quality of work life --- Employees --- Work-life balance --- Organizational change --- Life-work balance --- Time management --- Quality of life --- Work --- Work and family --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Humanization of work life --- Quality of working life --- Work life, Quality of --- Working life, Quality of --- Workload --- Arlie Hochschild. --- Brigid Schulte. --- Dying for a Paycheck. --- HR policies. --- Jeffrey Pfeffer. --- Leslie Perlow. --- MBA students. --- Overwhelmed. --- Sleeping with Your Smart Phone. --- Susan Dominus. --- Time Bind. --- Work family conflict. --- always on availability. --- always on. --- books for executives. --- burnout. --- constant availability. --- death from overwork. --- decreasing employee turnover. --- flexibility stigma. --- four day week. --- improving the workplace. --- increasing job satisfaction. --- millennial burnout. --- multitasking. --- organizational development. --- overwork. --- rethinking work life equation. --- split attention. --- sustainable jobs. --- unhealthy work environment. --- work intensification. --- Quality of work life - United States - Case studies --- Employees - Workload - United States - Case studies --- Work-life balance - United States - Case studies --- Organizational change - United States - Case studies