It discusses how work is affecting family-life and vice versa. Problems that result from demographics such as, quality childcare and elder and the effects of problem on employees, are discussed. Lastly, Ms. Friedman discusses where companies are in regards to thinking about or dealing with these issues and how each issue effects men and women differently. The presentation focuses on the framework of the Internet and how it works, a trip to HR public sites and a discussion of two cases, the McGraw Hill case involving their intranet and a Chevron case, looking at their intranet sites and seeing what their HR group has done is the foundation for this presentation. The Inter and Intranet are growing within corporations and it is due to the ease of developing sites and the benefits of providing ample information to your internal customers.
Nothing is built in to deal with the emotional disruptions.
The presentation discusses how organizations go about planning change and what is missing. Dr. bridges discusses how to fill the gap in order to improve the change process and what the challenges are for the leaders in filling these gaps. He also touches on how corporations can fix employee's problems with change, how to understand the employee perspective, why employees feel the way they do and how companies can incorporate these issues into their implementation plan. The presentation indicates whom the creative people are, why they are important to culture, what it means to have a creative culture and what it means to have cultural support for these people. Stephen defines Innovation and Creativity and continues to point out the differences between the two.