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"Who Is Caring for the Caregivers?
A Forum on Expanding Supports for the Family Caregivers of Elders"
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 A.M. ; MIT Faculty Club, 6th Floor, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA
Celebrating the release of the MIT Workplace Center publication
Family Caregiver Handbook: Finding Elder Care Resources in Massachusetts
The public is invited to attend this open forum regarding the issues affecting Massachusetts families with elders who need care. Join us for a panel discussion featuring the following speakers:
Joan Butler , Executive Director, Minuteman Elder Services;
Bob Buxbaum, M.D., Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates;
Andrea Cohen, Co-founder and C.E.O., HouseWorks; Rebecca Gutman, Community Coalition Organizer, 1199/SEIU;
Barbara Moscowitz, LICSW, MGH.
The event is being held at the MIT Faculty Club, located at 50 Memorial Drive in Cambridge.  Directions / Parking
"Action Research in the Workplace: Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future"
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 to Friday, April 7, 2006. Funded by the FORD FOUNDATION, with additional support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.
This Workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners who are using the method of Collaborative Interactive Action Research (CIAR) as developed by Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce Fletcher and others. Since the early 1990s, CIAR has been used by a number of people working in the areas of gender equity and work effectiveness - the Dual Agenda - both in the United States and in other countries. These efforts have spanned a variety of work organizations and have met with differing degrees of success. As the method emphasizes the unique knowledge and process embodied in each workplace organization, there are many different journeys to understand and analyze. With almost 15 years of field-based CIAR practice and experience, we think it is time to engage in critical reflection and evaluation of this method. This is not intended as a meeting to learn about the principles of CIAR, but rather an opportunity for those actively engaged in CIAR projects to share the challenges and the successes they are finding in using this method. Practioners from 11 countries are participating in this three day event.
Workshop, Co-Sponsored by the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons School of Management.
"Thoughts or Deeds?" The Impact of Manager Models and Behaviors on Employee and Project Outcomes"
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 1:00 - 2:30 P.M. Location: MIT Campus, Bldg. E52, Room 598.
Presented By: M. Diane Burton, Assistant Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management;
Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
"Taking Anthropology out of the Academy and into the Community"; Public Anthropology: A Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, November 11, 2004, 4:30 - 7:00 P.M. Location: Tufts University, Mayer Campus Center
Welcome address by Robert Hollister, Dean of Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service
Participants:
Mark Auslander, Brandeis University;
Ann Bookman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
David Guss, Tufts University;
Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Tufts University;
Nina (Cornelia) Kammerer, Brandeis University;
Sally Engle Merry, Wellesley College;
Sponsored by The Greater Boston Anthroplogy Consortium
"Building Political Will, Changing Public Policy: Is Flexible Work in Our Future?"
Friday, May 21, 2004, 3:30 - 5:00 P.M. Reception 5:00 - 6:00 P.M.
Hyatt Regency Hotel, 575 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
Panelists: Chai Feldblum, Director, Federal Legislation Clinic/Georgetown University Law Center;
Ellen Galinsky, President and Co-Founder, Families and Work Institute;
Karen Kornbluh, Director, Work and Family Program, New America Foundation;
Joan Williams, Director, Program of WorkLife Law, American University, Washington College of Law;
Moderator: Kathleen Christensen, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation;
Discussant: Thomas A. Kochan MIT Workplace Center
Hosted by the MIT Workplace Center
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"Who Cares?: Building Cross-Sector Partnerships for Family Care"
Wednesday, May 12, 2004, 4:30 - 6:00 P.M.
MIT Building E51, Room 376 [70 Memorial Drive; alternate entrance: 1 Amherst Street], Cambridge, MA
Speakers: Stephanie Davolos-Harden, Regional Director of Massachusetts Partnerships, Citizen Schools;
Judith Presser, Senior Consultant, Work / Family Directions Consulting;
Marta Rosa, Executive Director, Cambridge Child Care Resource Center;
Co-Sponsored by the MIT Workplace Center & the Family Care Working Group of the Massachusetts Work-Family Council Initiative
"Restructuring Time: Implications of Work-Hours Reductions for the Working Class"
Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 1:00
- 2:30 p.m.
E51-390, 70 Memorial Drive [Alternate Entrance: 1 Amherst St.], Tang Center, Cambridge, MA
Maureen Scully, Affiliated Professor of Management; Simmons School of Management & Faculty Research Consultant, Aspen Institute Business & Society Program;
Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
"The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence"
Tuesday, March 2, 2004, 1:00
- 2:30 p.m.
E51-390, 70 Memorial Drive [Alternate Entrance: 1 Amherst St.], Tang Center, Cambridge, MA
Francine Blau, Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University;
Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
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"Parental
Leave in Australia: The Policy and the Practice"
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 1:00
- 2:30 p.m.
E53-482, 30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA
Marian Baird, University of Australia, Sydney
and Visiting Scholar, MIT Workplace Center and the Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
Co-Sponsored with the Institute for Work and Employment Research
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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
"Supporting
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
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