America at Work: Choices and Challenges

by J. O'Toole (Editor), E. Lawler (Editor)

Overview

A companion to The New American Workplace , which is co-published with the Society for Human Resource Management and the Centre for Effective Organizations, this volume contains original articles and groundbreaking research, on workplace issues in America today from leading scholars in the fields of business, management and human resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230606807
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/16/2008
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	355
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

JAMES O'TOOLE is a Research Professor in the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, USA, where he has been Chair of Management, Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, and edited the magazine New Management. Formerly Executive Vice President of the Aspen Institute, he served as Managing Director of the Booz Allen Hamilton Strategic Leadership Center. He has published thirteen books and over seventy articles and was the Chairman of the task force that created Work in America.

EDWARD E. LAWLER is Founder and Director of the Center for Effective Organizations and Distinguished Professor in Marshall School of Business, both at the University of Southern California, USA. He has taught at Yale and the University of Michigan. Honoured as a major contributor to theory, research and practice in the fields of human resources management, organizational development, and organizational effectiveness, 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.

Table of Contents

Impact of Technology on the Nature of Work Impact of Individual Behaviour on Organizational Performance Education and the American Worker How Careers are Changing in American Corporations Work and Family Life Work and Health How Innovative Workplace Practices Enhance Productivity

Editorial Reviews

"This illuminating collection will be an indispensable resource for scholars, working professionals, and policy-makers alike . . . All in all, this is the most readable, interesting, and useful resource on changes and challenges in the US workplace." - CHOICE

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