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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements

We have set up a blog at http://wfnetwork.wordpress.com/ to announce updates to the Sloan Network!


Two new Topic Pages are online: Employer-Supported Child Care and Gender and Use of Workplace Policies.

  Issue 8 of the Policy Leadership Series, Policy Leadership on Developing Work-Family Committees was sent to state policy makers across the country and is online in PDF format.

Issue 7 of the Effective Workplace Series, Telework, is available online in PDF format.

The Family Leave Topic Page has updated information.

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Personal and Workplace Resilience

Kay Campbell

An Interview with
Kay Campbell

by Judi Casey and Karen Corday

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Corday: How does GlaxoSmithKline [GSK] define resiliency?

Campbell: The official definition is the ability to be successful, personally and professionally, in a highly pressured, fast-paced and continuously changing environment. When we talk about resilience, we have a two-pronged program that focuses on both personal and team resilience...

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How Does Your Company Rate in Managing for Resilience?

Source: WFD Consulting. (2004). How does your company rate in managing for resilience?: WFD's organizational resilience scorecard. Retrieved on March 27, 2007, from http://www.wfd.com/PDFS/scorecard%20summary.pdf.

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Network News Editor:

Karen Corday, MSLIS

Kay Campbell discusses personal and workplace resilience.

A graphic illustrates how fifty organizations rate their own resiliency management abilities.

Linda Marks, Manar Moreles, and Consuela Pinto report on several initiatives at the Center for WorkLife Law.
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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.

One year ago, there were 7,200 citations in the Literature Database. As of  March 2007, we now have over 8,450 citations.

Each month, we highlight up to ten publications that have recently been entered into this database.

This month's selections...

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Related to Personal and Workplace Resilience
Creating a Resilient Workplace: “This eleven-page paper by Bryan Hiebert of the University of Calgary was presented at the 2006 conference of the National Consultation on Career Development..."
"The Five Principles of Organizational Resilience": "This article...describes how the five principals serve as the “underlying architecture” to resilient virtual organizations (RVOs)..."

Resilience Research: “Dr. Mary Steinhardt of the University of Texas at Austin directs research on resiliency at the university’s College of Education..."

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Work-Family Project

Using the Resources of the Law to Move America towards
Flexible Workplaces for All

By Center for WorkLife Law (WLL) staff: Linda Marks, Director of Training and Consulting; Manar Morales, Senior Counsel and Director of the Attorney Network; and Consuela Pinto, Senior Counsel.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation currently funds several initiatives at the Center for WorkLife Law, which is located at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.  Here is a brief update on our continuing work with the legal profession, unions and Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD) training...

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Call for Papers and Awards

CLASP Call for Innovations: Flexible Workplaces
Deadline for Submission: March 31, 2007


Special Issue: Human Relations
Deadline for Submission: July 13, 2007

 
Click here for a complete list of papers
 
Conference Announcements

Global Perspectives- Community, Work and Family: Second International Conference
Where: Lisbon, Portugal - When: April 12-14, 2007

Global Perspectives- British Sociological Association: Annual Conference 2007
Where: University of East London - When: April 12-14, 2007

Conference Board: Annual Diversity Conference
Where: Hilton New York, New York, NY – When: April 25-26, 2007
 
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Take Part in The Network News

Upcoming issues of The Network News will focus on the following topics:

- Fatherhood and Work-Family

- Workplace Support for Breastfeeding Mothers

- Policy Makers and the Family Impact Seminars

Is your work related to any of these topics? If so, please contact us.

Let us know what you think!
We'd love to have your feedback on the Network News. Please e-mail all comments and suggestions to: wfnetwork@bc.edu

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Project Team: 
Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Judi Casey, MSW, Director
Karen Corday, MSLIS, Research Associate
Christina Matz, MSW and Sandee Shulkin, MSW, Co-Project Managers
E-mail: wfnetwork@bc.edu
Phone: 617-552-1708
Fax: 617-552-9202
Mailing Address:
Sloan Work and Family Research Network
Boston College
605 McGuinn Hall
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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