Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Setting the scene : can a company be both pro-profits and pro-people? / Joseph E. Radigan -- Overview : development and plan of the book / Daniel B. Fishman, Cary Cherniss -- Historical, social, and technological perspectives on the new realities of work and workers. Forces for increased organizational competition : implications for leadership and organizational competence / Michael Maccoby -- New attitudes and motivations in workers : growing interdependencies among the work, personal-family, and educational spheres of life / Seymour B. Sarason -- Organizational reactions to the new competitiveness forces and their impact on workers. Achieving competitiveness by creating new organization cultures and structures / Edward E. Lawler III -- Mergers, acquisitions, and the reformatting of American business / Dwight Harshbarger -- Sample approaches for managing the organizational reactions in order to promote worker well-being. Strategies for managing plant closings and downsizing / Richar

Contents: (cont.) Strategies for integrating the family needs of workers into human resource planning / Ellen Galinsky -- A case study in effective organizational change toward high involvement management / Leonard D. Goodstein -- Summary and conclusions. Emerging managerial themes for the 1990s : interdependencies and synergies among individual, organizational, and societal well-being / Daniel B. Fishman, Cary Cherniss