Work/Life Effectiveness : Programs, Policies & Practices

Work/Life Effectiveness: Programs, Policies & Practices, by Karol Rose, provides you with an invaluable resource and reference tool that you can use during any stage of your work/life initiative. Over 800 information-packed pages, including step-by-step instructions on how to develop, maintain, and evaluate cost-effective work/life programs, with easy-to-use checklists and worksheets, illustrative case studies, and a helpful library of field resources. Comprehensive and indispensable, this book addresses every work/life issue in depth and detail.

A partial listing of contents includes Work/Life in Corporate America, The Changing Role of the Work/Life Manager, Assessing your Organization's Work/Life Issues, Understanding and Responding to Child Care, Understanding and Responding to Elder Care, On-Site Information Resources, Creating a More Supportive Work Environment, Implementing Flexible Work Arrangements, Work/Life Manager Training, Marketing Work/Life Initiatives, Work/Life and Organizational Change, Work/Life and Technology, Work/Life and EAP, Work/Life and Benefits, and Special Work/Life Initiatives.

Contributing writers from major organizations including Ernst & Young, Lucent Technologies, Toyota, LifeCare.com, and Working Mother Magazine offer insights and case studies on these important issues.

Karol Rose pioneered the Work/Life field when she formed a company called Children at Work in 1980. Later, she was involved in developing one of the first in-home emergency child care programs in the country, and one of the first on-site back-up child care centers located in the Time/Life Building in New York City.

Currently the Managing Director of Consulting at LifeCare.com, in Westport, Connecticut, she is involved with leading edge, web-based technology to address work/Life issues, not only in terms of delivering information to employees, but also in developing tools like FlexWorks, which will help change the dialogue on work/life issues within an organization.

Previous books about work/life written by Karol Rose include:
Work & Family: Program Models & Policies, published by John Wiley & Sons;

The Employer's Guide to Child Care: Developing Programs for Working Parents, written by Barbara Adolf and Karol Rose, published by Praeger Publishers;

Child Care and the Working Parent: First Steps Toward Employer Involvement in Child Care, written and published by Barbara Adolf and Karol Rose.