MIT Workplace Center Seminar

"Parental Leave in Australia: The Policy and the Practice"
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
E53-482 The Millikan Conference Room, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA

Marian Baird, University of Australia, Sydney and Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan School
Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Work and Employment Relations

Spring 2003 Seminar Series on "From Here to Flexibility: The Challenges and Promise of Flexible Work Arrangements"

"Maintaining a Patient Focus in the Flexible Work Environment"
Tuesday, February 25, 2003, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
E56, Penthouse, 38 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Nancy Kruger, DNSc., RN, Vice President, Patient Care Services and CNO, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Nancy Hickey, RN, Director of Personnel Resource Applications, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Discussant: Lotte Bailyn, T Wilson Professor of Management, Sloan School, MIT

"From Here to Flexibility in Law Firms: Can It Be Done?"
Thursday, March 20, 2003, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
E56, Penthouse, 38 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Senior Partner, Bowditch & Dewey
Discussant: Mona Harrington, Program Director, MIT Workplace Center

"Flexibility in High Tech Firms: The Challenge of Integrating Dispersed Professionals"
Thursday, May 1, 2003, 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
E56, Penthouse, 38 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Tim Riley, Vice President, Strategic Growth, Forrester Research
Discussant: M. Diane Burton, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School

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Fall 2002 Seminar Series on "Labor/Management Partnerships for Working Families"

"Meeting the Family Care Needs of the Health Care Workforce: Reflections on the 1199 Child Care Fund"
Thursday, October 24, 2002, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
E51-063, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Carol Joyner, Executive Director, 1199 Child Care Fund

"Bridging the Gap Between Workplace Demands and Family Obligations: Lessons from the FORD/United Auto Workers Partnership"
Thursday, November 7, 2002, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
E51-063, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Richard Freeman, Ford Director, Family Service and Learning Center
Bill Corey, UAW Assistant Director, Family Service and Learning Center

"Connecting Work and Family in the Higher Education Workplace: Past Successes, Future Directions "
Thursday, December 5, 2002, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
E51-063, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Kris Rondeau, Organizer, Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers

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Spring 2002 Seminar Series on "Work Redesign"

"Work Redesign: Theory, Practice, and Possibility"
Wednesday, February 13, 2002, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
E51-372, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Lotte Bailyn, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Joyce K. Fletcher, Professor, Simmons Graduate School of Management

"Enhancing Patient Care Through Enhancing Employee Voice: Reflections on the Scanlon Plan at Boston’s Beth Israel Medical Center"
Wednesday, March 13, 2002, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
E56-270, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Mitchell T. Rabkin, M.D., CEO Emeritus, Beth Israel Hospital
Institute Scholar, The Carl J. Shapiro Center for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Laura Avakian, Vice President for Human Resources, MIT. Former Vice President of Human Resources, Beth Israel Hospital

"Keeping Caring Caregivers: Policy and Practice Initiatives in Long Term Care"
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
E51-057, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Susan C. Eaton, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Barbara Frank, Director of Health Policy for Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute

"Culture Eats Strategy for Lunch: Adventures in Redesigning a Multi-Specialty Group Practice"
Wednesday, May 1, 2002, 5:00 – 6:30 p.m.
E51-372, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Richard S. Lane, MD, Internist, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (HVMA); former Director, HVMA Primary Care Training and Orientation Program, former Chair, HVMA Internal Medicine Vision Project
Carl Isihara, PH.D., MD, Internist, Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates
Trustee, Harvard Vanguard Board of Directors, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

French Family Policy: Challenging U.S. Models of Work and Family
Thursday, March 14, 2002, 4:30
E38-714, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Jeanne Fanani, Research Director at CNAF (National Center for Family Allocations, France) and Researcher at the University of Paris, spoke about the impact of the most recent changes in work-family policy in France, including childcare policies and a new law that reduces the work week. Cosponsored by the MIT Workplace Center at Sloan, MIT France, and the MIT Women's Studies Program.

Stakeholder Dialogue on the Health Care Industry
December 13, 2001
During the first six months of The MIT Workplace Center's existence, we conducted numerous interviews and focus groups with members of the health care industry. In these, we found that there are significant work-family pressures among health care workers across occupational lines but also that this set of problems seems not to be identified and addressed, as such. Our purpose at the December 13th meeting was to bring some stakeholders in the industry together both to explore the range of workforce problems identified, and to gain a clearer understanding of work-family issues embedded in them. Our ultimate aim, with the help and advice of the participants, is to contribute to the construction of solutions.
WORKING PAPER: Workforce Issues in the Greater Boston Health Care Industry: Implications for Work and Family