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Finding Time : How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices / Leslie Perlow.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Collection on Technology and WorkPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1997Description: 1 online resource (176 p.) : 5 tables, 14 charts/graphs, 2 line figuresContent type:
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  • 9781501737473
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: The Case against Long Work Hours -- PART I. Life in the Fast Lane -- PART II. How Work Really Gets Done -- PART III. The Possibility of Change -- AFTERWORD. Two Years Later -- METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX. A Research Tale -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Summary: Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. Perlow doesn't buy it. She challenges the basic assumption that the more employees work, the better the corporation will do.For nine months, Perlow studied the work practices of a product development team of software engineers at a Fortune 500 corporation. She reports her findings in detailed stories about individual employees and in more analytic chapters. Perlow first describes the individual heroics necessary to succeed in the existing work culture. She then explains how the system of rewards perpetuates crises and continuous interruptions,while discouraging cooperation. Finally, she shows how the resulting work practices damage both organizational productivity and the quality of individuals' lives outside of work. Perlow initiated a collaborative effort to restructure the way team members worked. Managers who were involved credit the project for the rare and important on-time launch of the product the engineers were developing. In the end, Finding Time shows that it is possible to create new work practices that enable individuals to have more personal and family time while also improving the corporation's productivity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: The Case against Long Work Hours -- PART I. Life in the Fast Lane -- PART II. How Work Really Gets Done -- PART III. The Possibility of Change -- AFTERWORD. Two Years Later -- METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX. A Research Tale -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

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Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Leslie A. Perlow documents the worklife of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended hours on the job. Perlow doesn't buy it. She challenges the basic assumption that the more employees work, the better the corporation will do.For nine months, Perlow studied the work practices of a product development team of software engineers at a Fortune 500 corporation. She reports her findings in detailed stories about individual employees and in more analytic chapters. Perlow first describes the individual heroics necessary to succeed in the existing work culture. She then explains how the system of rewards perpetuates crises and continuous interruptions,while discouraging cooperation. Finally, she shows how the resulting work practices damage both organizational productivity and the quality of individuals' lives outside of work. Perlow initiated a collaborative effort to restructure the way team members worked. Managers who were involved credit the project for the rare and important on-time launch of the product the engineers were developing. In the end, Finding Time shows that it is possible to create new work practices that enable individuals to have more personal and family time while also improving the corporation's productivity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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