Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
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Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do about It
By (Author) Erin L. Kelly
By (author) Phyllis Moen
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th May 2020
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Office and workplace
Organizational theory and behaviour
331.20973
Physical Properties
Hardback
336
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
Why too much work and too little time is hurting workers and companies-and how a proven workplace redesign can benefit employees and the bottom line Today's ways of working are not working-even for professionals in "good" jobs. Responding to global competition and pressure from financial markets, companies are asking employees to do more with le
Reviews
"Co-Winner of the Max Weber Book Award, Organizations, Occupations, and Work Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Theory, Axiom Business Book Awards"
"One of Business Insider's 10 Books to Read to Learn about the Future of Work"
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Theres much we can learn from Overload to help make work work for everyoneboth now and in the future. Erin Kelly and Phyllis Moen have shown us through their dual work-redesign experiment that its possible not only to reimagine how we work to make it work for everyone, but also to execute on this ideal together, so that everyone benefits including the organization. Its giving people a choice about how, when, and where they work and a greater sense of control. In the pandemic, we all have an opportunity to step back and examine whats going well and whats not and envision how work can change for the better.
"---Rebecca Zucker, Forbes"Someday soon, when the economic engines of the world are running again, leaders will reflect on what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about the ways and means of work in their companies. As they do, they should read Overload."---Theodore Kinni, Strategy+Business
"In their recounting of a five-year field experiment conducted within a Fortune 500 company, two professors show how dual-agenda work redesign can reduce the high levels of chronic stress and ill health, feelings of powerlessness, workfamily conflict, and burnout that attend employee overloadwithout negatively affecting corporate productivity or performance." * Strategy+Business *
Author Bio
Erin L. Kelly is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management and an affiliate of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research and the Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative. Twitter @_elkelly Phyllis Moen is a McKnight Presidential Chair, professor of sociology, and director of the Life Course Center at the University of Minnesota. Her books include, most recently, Encore Adulthood: Boomers on the Edge of Risk, Renewal, and Purpose. Kelly and Moens research on work overload has been featured in the New York Times Magazine.
