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Pitt-Catsouphes: How do you define the term workplace flexibility?
Lingle: Workplace flexibility is a large, complex notion that often gets confused with the tools that support it, especially flexible scheduling. It is so deeply rooted in core beliefs about the nature of people and of work that it has become the conundrum of the work-life portfolio. By that I mean that it beguiles and entices at the same time that it eludes our grasp. Here is the dilemma...
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Flexible Work Arrangements and Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Retention, and Work-Family Interference in 2002
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Source: This chart has been adapted from Bond, J.T., Thompson, C., Galinsky, E., & Prottas, D. (2002). Highlights of the National Study of the Changing Workforce, no. 3. New York: Families and Work Institute. Figures 27-“Flexible Work Arrangements Related to Job Satisfaction in 2002 page 33; Figure 28-Flexible Work Arrangements Related to Commitment to Employer in 2002, page 34; Figure 29-Flexible Work Arrangements Related to Retention in 2002, page 34; and Figure 36-Flexible Work Arrangements Related to Interference Between Job and Family Life in 2002, page 38.
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Announcement of a new Sloan Center at Boston College and the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life Newsletter are featured in this month’s Sloan Corner. |
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The Sloan Work and Family Research Network maintains an
online database which contains the citations and annotations of work-family research publications.
A year ago, there were 6,080 citations in the Literature Database. As of July 2005, we now have over 6,534 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to 10 publications from those that have recently been entered into this database.
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Work-Family Newsletter
“Families that Work,” A Newsletter of the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life
The Center on Myth and Ritual in American Life ("MARIAL") is located at Emory University and is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Since fall 2000, MARIAL has focused its research on the “functions and significance of ritual and myth in dual wage-earner middle-class families in the American South.”
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2005 Take Back Your Time North American Conference
Where: Seattle University, Seattle, WA - When: August 4-7, 2005
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 Global Perspectives- International Sociological Association
Theme: “Social Stratification and Mobility”
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