Mission Possible or Impossible?: Integrating Work and Family

Presenter Information

Location

Unistructure, Room MRC 4

Start Date

15-9-1997 10:00 AM

End Date

15-9-1997 10:45 AM

Document Type

Panel Discussion

Description

Strategize professional survival when temporarily making the move from full-time to part-time work in order to better balance work and family needs. Objectives: I ) to provide participants with a guide for planning a move from full to part-time status that helps them assess their organizations, their jobs, and their needs; and 2) to provide participants with strategies to enable them to successfully negotiate the move from full to part-time status.

Comments

FACILITATOR: Lori Coakley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Bryant College

SPEAKERS: Honorable O. Rogeriee Thompson, Associate Judge, District Court, Providence, Rhode Island

Associate judge with the Rhode Island District Court. Her legal work, and community service focus on women's issues: workable solutions for women who are dealing with domestic violence, better working conditions, practical education, fair housing, and raising children in today's challenging society. Before becoming a judge in 1988, she was in private practice as a senior partner with the law firm of Thompson & Thompson. She has served on the Board of Trustees of Bryant College since 1988.

Pamela D. Sherer, PhD, Providence College

Founding director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and a member of the Management Department faculty at Providence College. Her current research interests focus on quality of worklife issues in both higher education and industry. These include instructional methods and student classroom participation, faculty development and organizational change, and the analysis of alternative work arrangements and their impact on organizational life.

Lori Coakley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Bryant College