Email: lbailyn@mit.edu
Extension: x3-6674
Department: Sloan School of Management
Office: E52-502
Lotte Bailyn studies the relationship between managerial practice and employees' lives. Her work centers on technical and managerial professionals and has dealt with such workplace innovations as telecommuting, flexible scheduling, family benefits, and work redesign. In her new fully revised book, Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives (Cornell, 2006), Bailyn argues that industries will fail in an intensely competitive world unless they take into account the changing nature of the professional workforce -- including the influx of women and the consequent lifestyle changes for both sexes. Earlier, in Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance (Jossey-Bass, 2002), of which she is a co-author, she and her colleagues contend that work and personal life are complementary, even synergistic, rather than adversarial. They show that by challenging the assumptions in which current work practices are embedded, the goals of both business productivity and employees' family and community concerns can be met in ways that are equitable for men and women.
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