Introduction: Current Conditions of Work and Family in Japan -- 1 The Factors of Fertility Decline in Japan -- 2 The Japanese Working Custom and Women’s Employment Participation -- 3 Work and Family in Japan from the Comparative Perspective -- 4 Family Formation and Disparity -- 5 The...

This case describes the third approach Donna Klein took to managing the troublesome question of how to help Marriott employees balance work and family life. The case builds on the A and B cases and reports events through 1995. See A case (UVA-OB-0425) and B case (UVA-OB-0435)

Donna Klein, director of the newly founded Department of Work and Family Life at Marriott Corporation, is charged with designing a set of programs that meets the work and family needs expressed by Marriott's diverse work force of 200,000. The A case provides background information regarding...

1. Introduction -- 2. Household and Family -- 3. Family: economic, social, and educational functions -- 4. Characteristics of the Chinese family system -- 5. Society and family clans in modern China -- 6. Transformation of family clans in modern China and the rise of family enterprises -- 7. The...