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This invaluable source book offers guidance, support and advice for those contemplating or involved in academic careers. The contributions provide rich, personal, sometimes poignant and often humorous accounts of shared and unique experiences of those in the world of academia.
Pause Point 3: Another Look at Integrating Work and Nonwork Lives
Pause Point 3: Another Look at Integrating Work and Nonwork Lives
As scholars of organizations, we are sometimes more sophisticated about the management of organizations than we are about the management of our own lives. In striving for success we somehow find disaster. One contributor to this phenomenon is the blind pursuit of some single success principle.
These aggravations illustrate the tension between home and work—a tension that can't be escaped even if one stays in the same place, elects not to marry, and has no children. I argue, however, that management scholars must seek this tension. We study human organizations. Most of us are too ...
