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The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work - Hardcover

Ciulla, Joanne B.

 
9780812929010: The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812929012 ISBN 13: 9780812929010
Verlag: Times Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on history, mythology, literature, and pop culture, this fascinating critique of "work" in America asks why so many people allow work to take over their lives, what happened to the unspoken "contract" between worker and employer, why has downsizing become a norm, and many other important questions.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joanne B. Ciulla, Ph.D., has been a Fellow at Harvard and Wharton, and a visiting scholar at Oxford.  She is currently Professor and Coston Family Chair in Ethics and Leadership at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of  RichmondShe lectures worldwide for companies such as AT&T. She lives in Richmond,Virginia.

Aus dem Klappentext

ng look at the allure and changing significance of work.With seductions, misunderstandings, and misinformation everywhere, this immensely readable book calls for a new contract--with ourselves.

Drawing from history, mythology, literature, pop culture, and practical experience, Ciulla probes the many meanings of work or its meaninglessness and asks:

Why are so many of us letting work take over our lives and trying to live in what little time is left?

What has happened to the old, unspoken contract between worker and employer?

Why are young people not being disloyal when they regularly consider job-changing?

Employers can't promise as much to workers as before. Is that because they promise so much to stockholders?

Why are there mass layoffs and "downsizing" in a time of unequaled corporate prosperity? And why are the most common lies in business about satisfactory employee performance?

The traditional co

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Verlag
Times Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812929012
ISBN 13 
9780812929010
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
266
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