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Sheila H. Akabas, Ph.D. and Paul A. Kurzman, Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice.

Publication: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Publication Date: 01-MAR-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Sheila H. Akabas, Ph.D. and Paul A. Kurzman, Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice.(Book review)

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Sheila H. Akabas, Ph.D. and Paul A. Kurzman, Work and the Workplace: A Resource for Innovative Policy and Practice. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. $ 49.50 hardcover.

The workplace of the 21st century will increasingly become leaner, technologically reliant, and more aggressive in pursuit of a healthy bottom-line. The global competition for resources and customers creates tensions between corporations' fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders and their ethical responsibility to their employees, their host communities and the environment. Forward looking work organizations recognize that, amid these trends, recruiting and retaining a productive and loyal workforce is dependent on careful attention to employees' well being and on their ability to assist employees in balancing the often...

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