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Book The Two Body Problem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Wolf-Wendel
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2004-01-05
  • ISBN : 9780801874512
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book The Two Body Problem written by Lisa Wolf-Wendel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately eight of every ten academics have spouses or partners who are working professionals, and almost half of these partners are academics as well. In fact, dual-career academic couples are so prevalent that "the two-body problem" has become a common way of referring to the situation. Increasingly, intense competition to hire the best faculty forces institutions to assist dual-career couples in finding suitable employment for the accompanying spouse or partner. The authors of The Two-Body Problem examine policies and practices used by colleges and universities to respond to the needs of dual-career couples within the economic, legal, and demographic contexts of higher education. Using data from an extensive survey of public and private universities as well as in-depth case studies of institutions representing distinctive approaches to this problem, the authors find that the type of institution—its location, size, governance, mission, and resource availability—is a critical factor in determining dual-career employment options. The Two-Body Problem describes various accommodation models in depth and provides valuable information for college and university administrators responsible for hiring faculty and supporting their performance. -- Lawrence Rodgers

Book Whose Career   Yours  Mine Or Ours   Addressing the Dual Career Dilemma with CARE

Download or read book Whose Career Yours Mine Or Ours Addressing the Dual Career Dilemma with CARE written by Yvonne Quahe and published by Springtime Books. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When will my turn come? Didn't we agree that both our careers were equally important?" Sound familiar? All too often, one career takes precedence over the other, and the dreams of a dual career marriage disintegrate into dust. And it's even more complicated if you are globally mobile. Juggling two careers with multiple moves - and perhaps a family - can be fraught with difficulties. Yvonne Quahe, sociologist, coach and HR professional, has spent the last 30 years living abroad as a globally mobile accompanying partner - and the last 13 developing programs for dual career families. In this powerful book, she maps out the common pitfalls and explains with refreshing clarity how to avoid them. Her trailblazing CARE Code (Clarify, Assess, Refocus, Explore) offers a framework for systematic dialogue to transform the way you - and HR professionals - approach the complex challenges faced by Dual Career Couples. Packed with case studies, research and practical exercises, Whose Career - Yours, Mine or Ours? will guide you toward more productive conversations and, ultimately, to making the best decision for you and your careers. If you and your partner are considering a global assignment, are in a dual career crisis or looking to renegotiate career prioritization in your relationship, this book is for you.

Book A holistic approach to the dual career of the student athlete

Download or read book A holistic approach to the dual career of the student athlete written by María José Maciá-Andreu and published by ESIC. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desde el Año Europeo de la Educación a través del Deporte (2004) el deporte ha sido reconocido como un importante fenómeno cultural, social y económico en la Unión Europea, reconociendo plenamente el derecho de los deportistas para combinar sus carreras académica/laboral y deportiva (por ejemplo, carrera dual). Este libro pretende sensibilizar a las instituciones y organizaciones deportivas sobre la necesidad de cooperar para superar los problemas relacionados con la combinación educación/trabajo y deporte competitivo, promover la conciencia sobre la necesidad de desarrollar carreras profesionales duales y fomentar los intercambios de los mejores. prácticas a nivel local, regional, nacional y europeo.

Book Dilemmas of a Double Life

Download or read book Dilemmas of a Double Life written by Nancy B. Kaltreider and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy Kaltreider was one of only four women in Harvard Medical School's Class of 1964. She is no stranger to the Dilemmas of a Double Life, to the challenges of balancing competing priorities in order to engage in the love AND the work that Freud defined as essential for fulfilment. But Freud was referring to men, of course, in advance of the gender role expansion whereby women's traditional imperatives have been unprecedentedly elasticized: not until our time have women enjoyed so much access to education and opportunity in the first half of life and so many options for reinventing themselves in the second half.

Book Couples That Work

Download or read book Couples That Work written by Jennifer Petriglieri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every couple wants a happy relationship and a meaningful career but how do we balance both? In Couples that Work, Professor Jennifer Petriglieri shifts away from the language of sacrifice and trade-offs and focuses on how couples can successfully tackle the challenges they will face throughout their lives--together. The book explores key questions like: - Can you and your partner have equally important careers or must you prioritise one over the other? - How can you juggle children or family commitments without sacrificing your work? - Does every decision require compromise or can you find solutions that benefit you both? Identifying common triggers and traps, and presenting engaging exercises to help you avoid and overcome them, this book will help every couple design their own unique way to combine love and work at every stage of their journey. 'Hugely insightful. All couples must read this now' Susan David, author of Emotional Agility 'Managing one career is hard enough; two often seems impossible. In this book, Jennifer shares what she's learned about how couples can not only survive but thrive' Adam Grant, author of Originals

Book Working Couples

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rhona Rapoport
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2022-02-23
  • ISBN : 1000574024
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Working Couples written by Rhona Rapoport and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978 Working Couples deals with husbands and wives who both hold paid jobs. The editors, the late Robert N. and Rhona Rapoport, had established themselves as well-respected authorities on dual-career families, and in this study they call upon other specialists in the field to apply their research experience to the consideration of the particular problems confronting working couples at the time. They discuss how some of these issues had arisen and analyse how they were being dealt with in a number of contexts. Working couples at the time were subject to constraints of various kinds in meeting the challenges they faced, and there were many who rejected the lifestyle on these grounds; but there were many others for whom it worked. Numerous families were attempting to operate the pattern in new ways. Both may have separate jobs, and her income may not only be separate from his, but in some cases larger and more reliable. Such a situation creates its own problems, which need to be resolved. The authors look at and clarify some of the generic issues and discover which resolutions have been satisfactory, as well as the various devices created for helping dual-worker families to function.

Book Dual career Marriage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa R. Silberstein
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2014-01-14
  • ISBN : 1317783557
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Dual career Marriage written by Lisa R. Silberstein and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dual-career marriage, in which wife and husband each pursue a professional career, offers a window into the changing landscape of gender roles and relations. In the span of a single generation, the family in which both parents work outside the home has gone from being the exception to being the rule. This book examines the multi-layered implications this impressive, rapid change holds for the fabric of family and marital life and for the course of men's and women's work lives. Intensive interviews with dual-career wives and husbands provide rich information about four major issues: * In what ways and for whom do dual-career marriages replicate the traditional gender arrangements of one-career marriages, and in what ways do dual-career marriages represent a revolution in gender roles? * How do the two careers of spouses develop side by side, and in what ways do dual-career spouses help or hinder each other's careers? * How do work and family combine in dual-career marriages? * How are relationships between spouses and between parents and children affected by dual careers? This book presents a subtle, textured portrait of contemporary dual-career marriage -- examining the complicated interplay of expectations, behaviors, and emotions within and between dual-career spouses. The author observes that the centrality of family or work to each spouse's sense of self powerfully affects how the couple negotiates the challenges posed by dual-career marriage, including feelings of competition between spouses, questions of geographic moves, and division of domestic tasks. The study illuminates many issues of clinical relevance, such as the common hazard of dual-career spouses having little time for marital intimacy once the rigorous demands of careers and children are met, and the complicated intrapersonal as well as interpersonal tensions generated by gender roles in transition.

Book Working Internationally

Download or read book Working Internationally written by Yvonne McNulty and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing expatriates and other ‘traditional’ internationally mobile workers is a significant part of many academic programmes and the focus of some specialist ones. But we cannot answer the big questions about global mobility if we exclude from our teaching people who do not fit with our usual conceptions and assumptions about who it is that organisations employ.

Book Make It Happen

Download or read book Make It Happen written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-stop shop for anyone wanting to improve their life at work, Make It Happen is the ultimate guide to making the best of your talents and building the career you want. We spend over 70 per cent of our week at work, so being happy while we're there is a major priority. With practical and easy-to-read advice on how to deal with over 60 common career challenges, Make It Happen will help you to: Go to work with confidence: get the best from yourself Achieve your full potential: get the best from your career Manage successful teams: get the best from others Make It Happen also features an exclusive introduction by Dena Michelli, bestselling author of Assertiveness in a Week, unique interviews with people who've survived the career mill, and essential Web links.

Book Establishing the Family Friendly Campus

Download or read book Establishing the Family Friendly Campus written by Jaime Lester and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of changing demographics in higher education, and the importance of family-friendly policies, is well documented. There is an urgent need to keep PhDs in the higher education sector, to recruit talented scholars into academia, and retain them over the course of their academic careers. The key is instituting policies to enable all constituencies to balance work and personal responsibilities.This book covers the range of issues faced by all generations in academe, from PhD students, to the “sandwich generation” (those caring for children and aging parents simultaneously) through to older faculty and administrators. It addresses the causes for women faculty with children leaving the academy at a disproportionately higher rate than men, the conflicts women face between academic work and motherhood, and the difficulties they encounter in reentering the academy after having left the professoriate. In examining the need for family-friendly policies, this book documents the “best practices” currently in use at institutions across the United States. Each chapter highlights practices and programs from a variety of institutions and institutional types that address the needs of a more inclusive family-friendly campus and offers suggestions to others who are implementing similar change on their campuses. These examples provide context so that readers no longer have to develop practices in isolation, and without evidence of their effectiveness.The editors suggest that the most successful campuses are those that utilize a work-life systems framework to meet the needs of its employees. They also point to future growth trends, including expanding the focus from faculty and staff to incorporate all in the campus communityThis book offers guidance to department chairs, deans, faculty, administrators, and graduate students on setting a family-friendly agenda, and models for implementation.Contributors include: Emily Arms -- Kathleen Beauchesne -- Jill Bickett -- Sharon A. Dannels -- Mariko Dawson Zare -- Karie Frasch -- Marc Goulden -- Jeni Hart -- Caryn Jung -- Jaime Lester -- Sharon A. McDade -- Jean McLaughlin -- Mary Ann Mason -- Sharon Page-Medrich -- Kate Quinn -- Margaret Sallee -- Randi Shapiro -- Angelica Stacy -- David L. Swihart -- Gloria D. Thomas -- Darci Thompson

Book International Human Resource Management

Download or read book International Human Resource Management written by Helen De Cieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s scholars and practitioners of international management have paid increasing attention to the impact of globalisation on the management of human resources across national boundaries. This collection of important articles and essays provides a comprehensive review and critique of developments and future directions in International Human Resource Management. Focusing on three major developments or approaches - Cross-Cultural Management, Comparative HRM and Strategic HRM, the volume explores challenges and opportunities facing researchers, international managers and employees.

Book Global Human Resource Management

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Nixon
  • Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
  • Release : 2019-06-02
  • ISBN : 1839473118
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Global Human Resource Management written by Carol Nixon and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-06-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Human Resource Management therefore is a very challenging front in Human Resource Management. If one is able to strike the right chord in designing structures and controls, the job is half done. Subsidiaries are held together by Global Human Resource Management, different subsidiaries can function operate coherently only when it is enabled by efficient structures and controls. Globally, the corporate experts are putting in their best efforts to research, renovate and redefine the tools, techniques and concepts of business management to provide customized services and improve the efficiency level of employees. Apart from these tolls, techniques and concepts of business management, there is a need to understand other things that can strengthen professional acumen and can improve competencies. The new millennium prompts us to take a hard look at what all has gone by, what is the scenario today and what needs to be changed to meet the new demands of the future. Therefore, the human resource function will be to survive, cope and adapt in the turbulent environment along with their primary aim of working for an all-round development of our most important resource 'The Human Being'. This book is an aims in bringing the field closer together by illustrating and analysing some of the analytic and practical links between the two. We do not seek to submerge the distinctive and different contributions from industry and marketing management makes to our understanding of management of human resource and organisation.

Book Stress And The Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hamilton I McCubbin
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-06-17
  • ISBN : 1317773004
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Stress And The Family written by Hamilton I McCubbin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983. This is Volume 1 of two in a collection of on stress and the family. The books view the family as both producing and reacting to stress and attempt to identify the sources of stress from either inside or outside the family microsystem. Further, the volumes distinguish between sudden, unpredictable, and overwhelming catastrophic stress and the more normal, gradual, and cumulative life stressors encountered over the life span. Moreover, the series brings into focus several rich perspectives which effectively integrate the hundreds of generalizations about the functional and dysfunctional methods family members use to cope with stress.

Book International Human Resource Management

Download or read book International Human Resource Management written by Dr. Bahrullah Safi and published by True Dreamster Press. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Human Resource Management (IHRM) is a field of study that focuses on the management of human resources in multinational corporations and other global organizations. It involves the application of HRM principles and practices to managing people in different cultural, institutional, and legal contexts across national borders. International HRM is concerned with identifying and understanding how the MNCs manage their geographically dispersed worked force in order to leverage their HR resources for obtaining local as well as a global competitive advantage. International Human Resource Management has a wider concept and scope of operation and working as compared to domestic Human Resource Management. There are different approaches to International Human Resource Management. International Human Resource Management (IHRM) is the process of procuring, allocating, and effectively utilizing human resources in a global organization. – Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). IHRM is the process of managing people across international boundaries and includes the full range of activities involved in the recruitment, selection, development, and retention of employees in a global environment. – International Labour Organization (ILO).

Book The Family and Industrial Society

Download or read book The Family and Industrial Society written by C. C. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, the origin of this book is to be found in C. C. Harris’s ‘Changing conceptions of the relation between family and societal form’ (in Scase: Industrial Society: Class, Cleavage and Control). In that article Harris attempted to relate traditional research on the family to recent developments in historical enquiry and Marxist scholarship. The aim of The Family and Industrial Society is to explain the character of the contemporary family by placing it in a wider historical and theoretical perspective. It is therefore directed at the undergraduate student for whom the ‘sociology of the family’, as a topic, has for too long been relatively unrelated to those contemporary developments in sociological thought and practice which inform other substantive areas of sociological work. The late C.C. Harris is perhaps best known for his best-selling introductory text The Family: An Introduction, first published in 1969. This new text was not, however, a straightforward replacement of an earlier book by a more up-to-date volume. Far too much had happened in sociology, in social studies and in family life itself, for a simple updating to make any sense. The Family was primarily a descriptive introduction, and was a presentation, albeit critical, of an orthodoxy. While this new book retains an introductory element based upon The Family’s earlier chapters, the greater part of it is exploratory and assumes a higher level of sophistication and sociological understanding; it is also substantially longer. Dr Harris was singularly well qualified to write a volume of this kind. Not only had he conducted and was conducting empirical research into the family, but his wide theoretical interests rendered him uniquely well placed to contribute to the theoretical development of his field. Few sociologists shared his familiarity with both anthropological and historical work. He was thoroughly familiar with the now unfashionable structural functional approach of which he had always been critical, but was enthusiastic about the potentialities of contemporary developments. The result is a sophisticated text which combines instruction, criticism, interpretation and exploration in one volume; which familiarises the student with the fundamental work of the past (too often neglected) and explores exciting new developments for the future. It also includes the only general discussion of change in the British family since the last edition of Fletcher’s The Family and Marriage in Britain.

Book Executive Coaching

Download or read book Executive Coaching written by Len Sperry and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book Whose Career

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yvonne Quahe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 9781919613321
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Whose Career written by Yvonne Quahe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When will my turn come? Didn't we agree that both our careers were equally important?"Sound familiar? All too often, one career takes precedence over the other, and the dreams of a dual career marriage disintegrate into dust. And it's even more complicated if you are globally mobile. Juggling two careers with multiple moves - and perhaps a family - can be fraught with difficulties.Yvonne Quahe, sociologist, coach and HR professional, has spent the last 30 years living abroad as a globally mobile accompanying partner - and the last 13 developing programs for dual career families. In this powerful book, she maps out the common pitfalls and explains with refreshing clarity how to avoid them. Her trailblazing CARE Code (Clarify, Assess, Refocus, Explore) offers a framework for systematic dialogue to transform the way you - and HR professionals - approach the complex challenges faced by Dual Career Couples.Packed with case studies, research and practical exercises, Whose Career - Yours, Mine or Ours? will guide you toward more productive conversations and, ultimately, to making the best decision for you and your careers.If you and your partner are considering a global assignment, are in a dual career crisis or looking to renegotiate career prioritization in your relationship, this book is for you.