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Sloan Network Updates and Announcements
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 There is a new entry in the Work-Family Encyclopedia: Collaborative Interactive Action Reseach, by Lotte Bailyn and Joyce K. Fletcher.
The Low Wage Bill Cluster is now online in PDF format.
The Paid Leave Bill Cluster is updated with new information.
The Low Wage Workers, Part-Time Work and Telework Topic Pages each contain new overviews & briefs, written interviews, resources for teaching/training, videos/audio, suggested readings, and links.
Thank you to our Roving Reporters,
Saija Mauno of Finland and Jeanne Fagnani of France, for Literature Database and What's New in Work and Family additions, respectively, and thank you as well to Anne Bardoel of Australia for her valuable contributions to last month's update.
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| Career Management and Work-Life Integration |
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Brad Harrington |
Douglas T. Hall |
An Interview with
Brad Harrington
and Douglas T. Hall
by Judi Casey and Karen Corday
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Casey: Why did you focus your book on career and work-life integration?
Harrington: Our perspective is that among many workers, particularly academics, there is a partition between the two fields. When there are career courses offered at universities, we find that work-life tends to be a very small part of the course; the topics are not viewed as two sides of the same issue. Our intent was to write a book to help people manage self-directed careers...
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Protean Versus Traditional Careers |
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Source: Harrington, B. & Hall, D.T. (2007). Career management & work-life integration: Using self-assessment to navigate contemporary careers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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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 8,150 citations in the Literature Database. As of December 2007, we now have over 9,165 citations.
Each month, we highlight up to ten publications that have recently been entered into this database.
See this month's selections
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Work-Family Project
Capitalizing on the Value of Older Adults' Work
By Eric Toder, Senior Fellow, the Urban Institute
Under a grant from the Sloan Foundation, the Urban Institute has sponsored an expert panel conference and will prepare a report on ways of capitalizing on the value of older adults’ work. The panel meeting was held on October 3, 2007 at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC and included experts from universities, research organizations, business, private consulting, the federal government, Congressional staffs, and groups representing women, minorities, and older Americans. The discussion focused on four main issues...
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