Editors:
- Presents insights into the current prevailing notion of the ideal worker.
- Discusses the need for companies to take care of employee well-being
- Shows how changes in society have affected the workplace
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The New Ideal Worker
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Front Matter
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Gender and Leadership
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Front Matter
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About this book
Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are “ideal workers”. However, this assumption has negative consequences for employees, their families and, more interestingly, for their organizations. This book provides a wealth of empirical evidence from around the globe, as well as innovative conceptual frameworks, to help practitioners and researchers alike to go beyond the classic notion of the “ideal worker” and to rethink what companies actually need from their employees. As it demonstrates, doing so will be beneficial for countless men and women, and for society at large.
Editors and Affiliations
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International Center for Work and Family, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Mireia las Heras Maestro
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Carmina Roca and Rafael Pich-Aguilera Women and Leadership Chair, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
Nuria Chinchilla Albiol
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Institute of Advanced Family Studies, International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Marc Grau Grau
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Harvard Kennedy School, Women and Public Policy Program, Cambridge, USA
Marc Grau Grau
About the editors
Mireia Las Heras Maestro is a professor at IESE Business School –University of Navarra, Spain – where she serves as the director of the International Center for Work and Family. She is an industrial engineer by training, holds an MBA from IESE Business School, and a PhD in business administration from Boston University, USA.
Nuria Chinchilla Albiol received a PhD in economics and business studies from the University of Navarra, Spain, a law degree from the University of Barcelona, Spain an MBA and a PhD from IESE Business School. She studied at Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Management, USA. She started her career as a professor at IESE in 1984 and is a consultant to a wide range of companies and a member on the boards of various organizations. She is the founder of the International Center for Work and Family.
Marc Grau Grau received a PhD in social policy from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has obtained a MBA from ESADE Business School, Spain and a MA in political and social sciences from University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. He is a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, USA and he currently serves as a researcher at Institute for Advanced Family Studies at the Universitat International de Catalunya.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The New Ideal Worker
Book Subtitle: Organizations Between Work-Life Balance, Gender and Leadership
Editors: Mireia las Heras Maestro, Nuria Chinchilla Albiol, Marc Grau Grau
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12477-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12476-2Published: 11 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12479-3Published: 15 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12477-9Published: 29 June 2019
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 267
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Development, Organization, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Diversity Management/Women in Business, Women's Studies, Business Strategy/Leadership