Internships: A Boon to One’s Future and One’s Business
Internships provide outstanding opportunities for students to put the knowledge and skills they have developed in the classroom to practical use, clarify career goals, learn new skills, and make valuable employment-related contacts. They also offer companies and organizations a chance to bring fresh ideas and perspective into their work sites, help to guide future employees to meet their unique needs, and make a positive contribution to our country’s economic future. This program can be tailored to meet the needs of employers, high school students, and secondary school personnel.
Tina Vance-Knight


Overtime Work and Mandatory Overtime
How many workers in the U.S. must work mandatory overtime, extra hours at their job that are required by their employer? Is the proportion of the work force that’s working mandatory overtime trending upward? Which type of workers do such overtime the most? What effect does such extra work have on their income? At what cost does the extra work come, such as health, stress, fatigue, risk of injury, work-family balance and happiness? Is the damage to workers’ well being attributed to the long hours, per se, or the lack of choice, or both? Learn which harmful side effects are associated with involuntary, or even voluntary, overtime work.
Dr. Lonnie Golden

Overwork
What are the forces that drive more and more American workers to work long hours at their jobs? At what point does work actually become overwork, harmful to a person’s well being despite the extra income? Which workers are working more hours than they prefer? Who are the employees who spend fewer hours at work than they would prefer? Economics and other disciplines offer a range of answers to these questions and suggest solutions to the persistent problems associated with the ever-longer hours of work for members of contemporary households.
Dr. Lonnie Golden


Students’ Time Spent Studying vs. Working
Students who are employed while enrolled in school are working ever more hours at their jobs. How does this tend to affect other uses of their time, including time spent in classes, doing homework, and sleeping? In particular, after how many hours of work per week does employment begin to cut into the amount of time students report that they spend studying? Learn the tipping point at which students work-time cuts into homework-time, class-time or sleep-time, and if there are differences between college vs. high school students, types of jobs, full-time vs. part-time student status, etc.
Dr. Lonnie Golden

The Economic Recovery and Joblessness
Economic expansion no longer creates as many jobs as it has in the past. Employers seem to rely more on lengthening work hours of existing employees. Examine the factors in our economy which have changed in the past decade to produce the recent “jobless recoveries.” Learn if this phenomenon is inevitable or fixable with new policies, and evaluate the ways in which it might be related to technology and rising costs of employee benefits.
Dr. Lonnie Golden


Workplace Flexibility and Flexible Work
Flexible work schedules are becoming increasingly popular with a wide spectrum of employers and employees. Learn which jobs and employees have the most flexible work schedules and discover the ways in which such scheduling can be valuable to the workers and to the companies which offer them. Examine the reasons that more jobs do not offer schedules tailored to fit the needs of today’s families and consider the actions public policy can take to promote flexible work schedules and work sites. Learn which policies would help promote more flexibility in jobs and workplaces.
Dr. Lonnie Golden