Susan J. Lambert, PhD

The University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

Publications

  • Golden, Lonnie, Susan J. Lambert, Julia R. Henly, and Barbara Wiens-Tuers. In press. Working time in the employment relationship: Working time, perceived control and work-life balance. In The Edward Elgar Handbook on Work and Employment Relations, K. Townsend and A. Wilkinson, eds. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK.
  • Lambert, Susan J. In press. “Opting in” to full labor force participation in hourly jobs. In Confronting the ‘Opt-out Revolution:’ Women in Today’s Workforce, Bernie D. Jones, ed. New York: NYU Press.
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Julia R. Henly. In press. Double jeopardy: The misfit between welfare-to-work requirements and job realities. In Work and the Welfare State: The Politics and Management of Policy Change, Evelyn Brodkin and Gregory Marston, eds. Washington DC:  Georgetown University Press.
  • Lambert, Susan J., Anna Haley-Lock, and Julia R. Henly.  2012. Schedule flexibility in hourly jobs: Unanticipated consequences and promising directions. Community, Work and Family. 15(3): 293-315.
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Julia R. Henly. 2012. Frontline managers matter: labour flexibility practices and sustained employment in hourly retail jobs in the U.S. In Are Bad Jobs Inevitable? Trends, Determinants and Responses to Job Quality in the Twenty-First Century, Chris Warhurst, Francoise Carré, Patricia Findlay, and Chris Tilly, eds. England: Palgrave Macmillan 143-59
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2012. "Opting in" to full labor force participation in hourly jobs. In Women Who Opt Out: The Debate Over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance,  B. D. Jones, ed. 87-102. New York: New York University Press.
  • Golden, Lonnie, Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Susan J. Lambert, and Julia R. Henly. 2011. Working time in the employment relationship: Working time, perceived control and work-life balance. In Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations,  K. Townsend, and A. Wilkinson, eds. 188-211. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar.
  • Muse, Lori, and Susan J. Lambert. 2010. Collecting organizational data to strengthen work-family research. Alfred P. Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia.
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Julia R. Henly. 2010. Managers’ strategies for balancing business requirements with employee needs. Report of the University of Chicago Work Scheduling Study.
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2009. Lessons from the policy world: How the economy, work sup­ports, and education matter for low-income workers. Work and Occupations 36(1): 56-65.
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2009. Making a difference for hourly employees. In Work-life Poli­cies that Make a Real Difference for Individuals, Families, and Organizations, Ann C. Crouter and Alan Booth, eds. Washington DC: Urban Institute Press.
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Julia R. Henly. 2009. Work schedules in hourly jobs. In The Low-Wage Labor Market for the Twenty-First Century Economy. Washington DC: The Mobil­ity Agenda.
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2008. Human needs: Work/employment. In Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th ed., Terry Mizrahi and Larry E. Davis, eds. Oxford University Press.
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2008. Passing the buck: Labor flexibility practices that transfer risk onto hourly workers. Human Relations 61(9): 1203-27.
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Julia R. Henly. 2007. Low-level jobs and work family studies. In Work Family Encyclopedia, Patricia M. Raskin and M. Pitt Catsouphes, eds. Sloan Work-Family Research Network, Boston College.
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2006. Both art and science: Employing organizational documenta­tion in workplace-based research. In Handbook on Work-Family Research, M. Pitt Catsouphes, Ellen Ernst Kossek, and Stephen Sweet, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erl­baum Associates.
  • Henly, Julia R., and Susan J. Lambert. 2005. Nonstandard work and child care needs of low income parents. In Work, family, health & well-being, ed. Suzanne M. Bianchi, Lynne M. Casper, and Rosalind King. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 
  • Kossek, Ellen Ernset, and Susan J. Lambert, eds. 2005. Work and life integration: Or­ganizational, cultural, and individual perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Elaine Waxman. 2005. Organizational stratification: Distribut­ing opportunities for work-life balance. In Work and life integration: Organizational, cultural, and individual perspectives, ed. Ellen Ernst Kossek and Susan J. Lambert. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 
  • Lambert, Susan J., and Anna Haley-Lock. 2004. The organizational stratification of opportunities for work-life balance: Addressing issues of equality and social justice in the workplace. Community, Work & Family 7(2): 181-197. 
  • Lambert, Susan J. 2003. The work side of welfare-to-work: Lessons from recent policy research. Work & Occupations 30(4): 474-478. 
  • Lambert, Susan, and Yojin Kim. 2002. Psychological involvement in family interac­tions: A new twist on work-to-family spillover. Issued working paper of The Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work, University of Chicago. 
  • Lambert, Susan, Elaine Waxman, and Anna Haley-Lock. 2002. Against the odds: A study of sources of instability in lower-skilled jobs. The Project on the Public Economy of Work, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago. 
  • Lambert, Susan and Anna Haley-Lock. 2001. Opening the door to opportunity: In­vestigating lower-skilled jobs from an organizational perspective. The Project on the Public Economy of Work, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chi­cago. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 2000. Added benefits: The link between work-life benefits and or­ganizational citizenship behavior. Academy of Management Journal 43(5): 801-815. (Lead article.) 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1999. The link with business strategies: Measuring the value-added of work/life initiatives. In The metric manual, ed. Brad Googins and Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes. Center for Work and Family: Boston College. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1999. Lower-wage workers and the new realities of work and family. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 562: 174-190. 
  • Lambert, Susan.1998. Workers’use of supportive workplace policies: Variations by race and class-related characteristics. In Workforce diversity: Issues and perspectives, ed. Alfreda Daly. Washington, D.C.: NASW Press. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1997. Expanding theories of occupational structure: Examining the relationship between employer responsiveness and worker well-being. In The inte­gration of social work and social science, ed. David Tucker, Rosemary Sarri, and Charles Garvin. New York: Greenwood Press. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1995. An investigation of workers’ use and appreciation of supportive workplace policies. In Best papers 1995: Proceedings of the Academy of Management, ed. Dorothy Perrin Moore. Madison, WI: Omni Press. 
  • Lambert, Susan, and Karen Hopkins. 1995. Occupational conditions and workers’ sense of community: Variations by gender and race. American Journal of Community Psychology 23(2): 151-179. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1994. A day late and a dollar short: Persistent gender differences amid changing requirements for organizational advancement. Journal of Applied Social Science 18(1): 89-108. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1993. Workplace policies as social policy. Social Service Review 67(2): 237-260. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1991. The effects of job and family characteristics on the job satisfac­tion, job involvement, and intrinsic motivation of men and women workers. Journal of Organizational Behavior 12: 341-363. 
  • Lambert, Susan. 1990. Processes linking work and family: A critical review and re­search agenda. Human Relations 43(3): 239-257.

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