The New American Workplace
by O'Toole, James; Lawler, Edward E.; Meisinger, Susan R., SPHRFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-06-27
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan Trade
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Summary
Thirty years ago, the bestselling letter to the government Work in America was published to national acclaim, including front-page coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Since then, the workplace has undergone massive changes: Womens roles in the workplace have gone from secretarial work to CEO Outsourcing used to be just an idea; today it has rendered jobs obsolete There was a unified workplacetoday there are either Big Losers or Big Winners. In this groundbreaking work based on thirty years of research, these hot-button issues and many others are revealed, redefining the state of the workplace today. A must-have for every manager and jobholder today.
Author Biography
James O'Toole was chairman of the task force that created Work in America. He is a Research Professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at USC. Formerly Executive VP of the Aspen Institute, he has published thirteen books and over seventy articles. He lives in San Francisco and Malibu. Edward E. Lawler is founder and Director of the Center for Effective Organizations and Distinguished Professor in the Marshall School of Business, both at USC. He is author or co-author of over thirty-five books and more than three hundred articles. Business Week proclaimed Lawler one of the top six gurus in the field of management, and Human Resource Executive called him one of HR’s most influential people. He lives in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | vii | ||||
| Foreword | ix | ||||
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| Part I Introduction | |||||
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3 | (22) | |||
| Part II Changes in the American Workplace | |||||
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25 | (14) | |||
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39 | (22) | |||
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61 | (22) | |||
| Part III Consequences for the American Worker | |||||
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83 | (10) | |||
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93 | (8) | |||
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101 | (6) | |||
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107 | (4) | |||
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111 | (4) | |||
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127 | (6) | |||
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133 | (6) | |||
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139 | (12) | |||
| Part IV Choices and Future Directions | |||||
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151 | (34) | |||
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185 | (30) | |||
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215 | (18) | |||
| Part V Conclusions | |||||
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233 | (12) | |||
| Authors of Papers Commissioned for this Study | 245 | (2) | |||
| Notes | 247 | (8) | |||
| Additional Information | 255 | (3) | |||
| Index | 258 |
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