The Art of Happiness at Work. The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler.
Riverhead Books. 2003.
Balanced Life: Achieving Success in Work and Love. Alan Joy McGinnis.
Augsburg. 1997.
Balancing Act: How Managers Can Integrate Successful Careers and Fulfilling
Personal Lives. Joan Kofodimos. Jossey-Bass. 1993.
Balancing Home and Career: Skills for Successful Life Management.
Pamela J. Conrad. Crisp Publications. 1995.
Balancing Work and Family. Ken Lizotte. American Management Association.
1995.
Beyond the Bottom Line: The Search for Dignity at Work. Paula M.
Rayman. Palgrave. 2001.
Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance.
Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K. Fletcher, and Bettye H. Pruitt.
Jossey-Bass. 2002.
Beyond Work-Family Programs: Confronting and Resolving the Underlying
Causes of Work-Personal Life Conflict. Joan R. Kofodimos. Center for
Creative Leadership. 1995.
Breaking with Tradition: Women and Work, the New Facts of Life.
Felice N. Schwartz. Time Warner Company. 1992.
Burn Brightly Without Burning Out: Balancing Your Career with the Rest
of Your Life. Dick Biggs. Successories, 1998.
Calm Energy: How People Regulate Mood with Food and Exercise. Robert
E. Thayer. Oxford University Press. 2003.
Daddy@Work: Loving Your Family, Loving Your Job: Being Your Best in
Both Worlds. Robert Wolgemuth. Zondervan Publishing House. 1999.
Family First: Tales of a Working Father. Bert Blodgett. Grendel
Press. 2002.
Flex Time: A Working Mother's Guide to Balancing Career and Family.
Jacqueline Foley. Marlowe & Company. 2003.
Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge
of Life, Family, and Career. Laraine T. Zappert. Pocket Books. 2001.
Harvard Business Review on Work and Life Balance. Harvard Business
School Press. 2000.
Having it All/Having Enough: How to Create a Career/Family Balance
That Works for You. Deborah Lee. AMACOM. 1997.
I Used to Have a Handle on Life But It Broke: Six Power Solutions for
Women With Too Much to Do. Mary Loverde. Simon & Schuster. 2002.
Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide. Jossey-Bass. 1998.
It's About Time: Couples and Careers. Edited by Phyllis Moen. ILR
Press. 2003.
The Job/Family Challenge. Ellen Bravo. John Wiley & Sons. 1995.
Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for
Women and Their Families. Faye J. Crosby. The Free Press/Macmillan
Inc. 1991.
Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life.
Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson. John Wiley. 2004.
Kin Care and the American Corporation: Solving the Work/Family Dilemma.
Dayle M. Smith. 1991.
Life Matters: Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time, &
Money. A. Roger Merrill and Rebecca R. Merrill. McGraw-Hill. 2003.
Living Your Best Life. Laura Berman Fortgang. Jeremy P. Tarcher.
2001.
Managing the Demands of Work and Home. Carol R. Galginaitis. Irwin. 1994.
Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial, and Time Reserves
to Overloaded Lives. Richard A. Swenson. NavPress. 1992.
The Medical Marriage: Sustaining Healthy Relationships for Physicians
and Their Families. Wayne Sotile and Mary Sotile. American Medical
Association. 2000.
The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a
Living. Randy Komisar with Kent Lineback. Harvard Business School
Press. 2001.
New Direction in Career Planning and the Workplace: Practical Strategies
for Career Management Professionals. Edited by Jean M. Kummerow. Davies-Black
Publishing. 2000.
Nurse Leader (Volume 2, #2, April 2004) has several articles on
work and life balance.
Reflections for Working Parents: A Treasure Chest of Truths for Every
Working Parent. Carol A. Turkington. McGraw-Hill. 1997.
Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Rest of Your Life.
Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro. Berrett-Koehler. 1995.
Second Innocence: Rediscovering Joy and Wonder: A Guide to Renewal
in Work, Relationships, and Daily Life. John Izzo. Berrett-Koehler
Publishers. 2004.
She Works, He Works: How Two-Income Families are Happier, Healthier,
and Better-Off. Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers. Harper. 1996.
Solving the Work/Family Puzzle. Bonnie Michaels and Elizabeth McCarty.
Business One Irwin. 1992.
Staying Home Instead: How to Balance Your Family Life (and Your Checkbook).
Christine Davidson. Jossey-Bass. 1998.
Stop Screaming at the Microwave! How to Connect Your Disconnected Life.
Mary LoVerde. Simon & Schuster. 1998.
Survival Skills for Doctors and Their Families. Ruth Chambers,
Kay Mohanna and Steph Chambers. Radcliffe Medical Press. 2003.
The Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment.
T. D. Jakes. Berkley Books. 2005.
The Three-Career Couple: Mastering the Art of Juggling Work, Home,
and Family. Marcia Byalick and Linda Saslow. Peterson's Publications. 1993.
Thriving in 24/7: Six Strategies for Taming the New World of Work.
Sally Helgesen. The Free Press. 2001.
Treating Compassion Fatigue. Edited by Charles R. Figley. Brunner-Routledge.
2002.
Turn It Off: How to Unplug from the Anytime-Anywhere Office Without
Disconnecting Your Career. Gil Gordon. Three Rivers Press. 2001.
Winning at Work: Breaking Free of Personal Traps to Find Success in
the New Workplace. Mel Sandler and Muriel Gray. Davies-Black. 1999.
Women at Work: Leadership for the Next Century. Dayle Smith. Prentice
Hall. 2000.
Work Overload!: Redesigning Jobs to Minimize Stress and Burnout.
Frank M. Gryna. ASQ Quality Press. 2004.
Working Fathers: New Strategies for Balancing Work and Family.
Addison-Wesley. 1997.
The Working Parent Dilemma: How to Balance the Responsibilities of
Children and Careers. Earl A. Grollman and Gerri L. Sweder. Beacon
Press. 1986.
The Working Mother's Complete Handbook. Gloria Norris and Jo Ann
Miller. Revised edition. New American Library. 1984.
The Working Mother's Guilt Guide. Mary C. Hickey and Sandra Salmans.
Penguin Books. 1992.
The Working Woman's Guide to Managing Stress. J. Robin Powell with
Holly George-Warren. Prentice-Hall. 1994.
Videos
Achieving Balance: How to Handle the Stress of Work and Family Life.
A 15-minute video program with a guide. 1990. Great Performance, Inc.
Synopsis: Sources of work/family stress; skills/tools
needed to gain organization and efficiency; networks; delegation; setting
limits.
Another Call from Home. A 31-minute video program with a guide.
1991. Dartnell.
Synopsis: How to recognize work and family conflicts;
how to handle the concerns effectively; the three most common family
concerns faced by working parents, dual-career couples, single parents,
and adult children in the workforce in the '90's--maternity leave, child
care, and elder care.
The Guilty Madonnas. With Elise Boulding. A 52-minute video program.
1982. CRM/McGraw-Hill Productions.
Synopsis: Working mothers; contemporary day care centers.
Juggling Your Work and Family. A 26-minute video program in the
FYI Video series. 1990. American Management Association.
Synopsis: Realistic child-care solutions, planning tips,
and basic rules for dealing with stress--plus four simple steps you
can take right now to gain control of your life.
Latch-key Families. A 23-minute video program. 1988. Films for
the Humanities and Sciences.
Synopsis: Specific guidance to working parents with children
who are ontheir own after school; physical safety and emotional security
for the child; rules for conduct, age-appropriate chores and responsibilities
to teach independence in the right way.
Simplifying Your Work and Your Life. A 37-minute video program.
1997. Business Advantage. With: Jeff Davidson and Tony Alessandra.
Synopsis: Discusses strategies for minimizing your life
at work, including implementing your own four-phase system for managing
interruptions as well as tips for coping more easily at home.
Stress Management for Professionals: Staying Balanced under Pressure.
A 231-minute video seminar with a guide. With Roger Mellott. 1988. CareerTrack.
Synopsis: Productivity under stress; the "teacup
theory;" skills for living with change; the "banana theory"
for stressful moments; four ways to vent frustration without hurting
others; constructive depression; balancing goals for home, work, and
health.
The Working Mom's Survival Guide. With Alan Xanakis. A 45-minute
video program. Xenejenex Productions.
Synopsis: How to juggle work, kids, and marriage with
enjoyment; time management; organization, romance, quality-time parenting;
stress management; a daily aerobic work-out designed to fit into a mother's
busy schedule.
Working Moms: Survival, Success, and Satisfaction.
With Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz, Morton Shaevitz, Susan Voss and Judy Rae.
A 60-minute video program with a guide. 1986. AmeriVision.
Synopsis: The daily activities of three working moms
who want to reduce their stress and guilt and manage their schedules
more effectively; setting priorities; learning to say "no"
when needed; the male perspective on changing roles.
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