Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide

by Stewart D. Friedman

Strike a balance! Practical and powerful, Integrating Work and Life offers you a treasury of learning activities that were developed by leading-edge companies and by trainers, educators, and agents of change in the public and private sectors. With this guide at your side, you can help employees to achieve both business and personal success. Employees will learn Plus, you can teach current managers--and future managers--about the work/life issues employees face and how to handle these issues. This reproducible, thoughtfully assembled collection is based on a framework developed through extensive field research. It includes role plays, case studies, self-assessments, and simulations. You can quickly select the activity you need by subject area, by teaching method, or by target audience. Conduct these easy-implementation activities and enjoy tangible results! Try a free sample activity, Clarifying Priorities and Building a Network of Support, and learn how you can make this resource work for you!

452 pages, Loose Leaf

First published June 26, 1998

About the author

Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He founded Wharton’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project. Friedman has been recognized by the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers every cycle since 2011 and was honored with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award as the foremost expert in the field of talent. He was listed among HR Magazine’s most influential thought leaders, chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s most influential men who have made life better for working parents, and presented with the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award.

While on leave from Wharton, Friedman was the senior executive responsible for leadership development at Ford, where he created Total Leadership. This program, now in use worldwide, measurably improves performance and well-being in all parts of life. His research is widely cited, including among Harvard Business Review’s “Ideas That Shaped Management,” and he has written two bestselling books, Total Leadership and Leading the Life You Want. His latest book is Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life (March, 2020). Winner of many teaching awards, Friedman inspires students’ “rock star adoration,” according to the New York Times. He is an in-demand speaker, consultant, coach, workshop leader, and advocate for family-supportive policies. He hosts the SiriusXM Wharton Business Radio show and podcast, Work and Life.