163 research outputs found
Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family
This working paper synthesizes critical problems identified by interviews with more than 40 leaders in the Boston
area health care industry and places them in the context of work and family issues. At present, the defining
circumstance for the health care industry nationally as well as regionally is an extraordinary reorganization, not yet
fully negotiated, in the provision and financing of health care. Hoped-for controls on increased costs of medical care
have fallen far short of their promise. Pressures to limit expenditures have produced dispiriting conditions for the
entire healthcare workforce. Under such strains, relations between managers and workers providing care are
uneasy.
Five key issues affect a broad cross-section of occupational groups, albeit in different ways: staffing shortages; long
work hours and inflexible schedules; degraded and unsupportive working conditions; lack of opportunities for
training and advancement; professional and employee voices are insufficiently heard. The paper concludes with
possible ways to address such issues
Part Time Partner Redux: So We Solved the Problem, Didn't We?
A teaching case on the reality of part time policies for associates and partners in law firms. This case shows that
formal policies have failed to overcome the informal norms or culture that penalized professionals for deviating from
what was engrained in the minds of senior partners and others in the profession as the "ideal worker." It asks the
reader to develop a strategy, considering the different stakeholders, to solve this problem
Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory
Review of the book edited by V. Spike Peterson
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