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In September 1996, Fleet Financial Group and the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute undertook a one‐year pilot project addressing a "dual agenda" – reexamining work processes to achieve positive business outcomes while also helping employees better integrate work responsibilities with life outside of work. The chosen sites for the experiments were a retail/small business banking unit and a portfolio management unit. Radcliffe‐Fleet Project researchers employed two key methods: dual context and action research. Using this methodology, interventions and measures of success of the interventions were developed collaboratively with management and employees. Even in these competitive, deadline‐driven work environments, quantitative measures and qualitative assessments at each site showed a positive relationship between business outcomes and quality of life outcomes. The researchers develop guidelines for companies interested in replication of this project. Several principles are also identified for sustaining the success of effective work‐life integration interventions and institutionalizing the "dual agenda" in the workplace.

In ihren autobiografischen Reflexionen erzählt Marie Jahoda über ihre Herkunft aus einem assimilierten jüdischen Elternhaus, über Leben und Überleben als Widerstandskämpferin gegen die autoritär-faschistischen Regierungen in Europa sowie über ihre Laufbahn als Sozialpsychologin in den USA und in England. Der Text beeindruckt sowohl durch literarische Qualität als auch durch selbstkritische Distanz zum Genre. Vor allem macht er deutlich, wie sehr diese Frau in ihrem Denken und Handeln die historischen Grenzen für einen weiblichen Lebensverlauf überschritten hat. Briefe aus den Jahren 1939 bis 1948 und ein Essay ihrer Tochter Lotte Bailyn vertiefen die Perspektive. Alle Dokumente sind historisch kontextualisiert und kommentiert.

Abstract
This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult development literature, this study leverages Levinson's construct of life structure in relation to the self as a lens for understanding the developmental work undertaken in different phases ("phase-tasks") of the retirement process. We define life structure as a person's system of contexts—the roles, relationships, activities, groups, organizations, and physical settings in the person's life—and the dynamic interconnections among them. Our research focused on the underlying micro processes of the interplay between self and life structure. This qualitative study followed 14 knowledge workers through their retirement transitions, using multiple in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Data analyses revealed that the self and the life structure co-evolve, exerting mutual influence across the four phase-tasks of the retirement transition, driven by the individual's desire for a life structure that is both suitable for the self and viable for the foreseeable future. Two in-depth case studies and data from the other 12 participants illustrate the interplay, throughout the transition, between moves made by the self on the life structure and claims and changes from the life structure influencing the self. We present an induced process model of this reciprocal influence between self and life structure across the retirement transition, and discuss our contributions to the retirement, adult development, and identity literatures, as well as practical implications.