WORKING LIFE, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　EXPLORING AND EXPLODING OUR NOTIONS OF WORK
　　Joanne B. Ciulla, a noted scholar in Leadership and Ethics,
examines why so many people today have let their jobs take over
their lives. Technology was supposed to free us from work, but
instead we work longer hours-often tethered to the office at home
by cell phones and e-mail. People still look to work for
self-fulfillment, community, and identity, but these things may be
increasingly difficult to find in today’s workplace. Gone is the
social contract where employees and employers shared a sense of
mutual loyalty, yet many of us still sacrifice personal time for
jobs that we could lose at the drop of a stock price. Tracing the
evolution of the meaning of work from Aesop to Dilbert, and
critically examining the past 100 years of management practices,
Ciulla asks questions that we often willfully ignore at our own
peril.
　　*When you are on your deathbed, will you wish you had spent more
time at the office?
　　*Why do we define ourselves by our jobs rather than by other
activities we do outside of work?
　　*What can employers and employees promise each other in today’s
business environment?
　　Provocative and entertaining, The Working Life challenges us to
think about the meaning of work and its impact on our lives.

　　JOANNE B. CIULLA holds the Coston Family Chair in Leadership
and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the
University of Richmond. A former visiting scholar at Oxford and
fellow at Harvard and the Wharton School, she has degrees from
Temple University and the universities of Delaware and Maryland,
and she has taught at Boston University and La Salle. She lives in
Richmond, Virginia.

　　”A wonderfully readable tour through the history of ideas
about work, as human nature or human condition; as curse or
blessing; as a calling by God or expression of the inner
self.”
　　– Michael W. Munley, Philadelphia Inquirer
　　”None of my guests on World of Ideas stimulated more response
from viewers than Joanne Ciulla.”
　　–Bill Moyers, Public Affairs Television, Inc. — Review