The working poor: Locked out of careers and the organizational mainstream?
探讨雇主如何通过理解福利接受者的工作态度和行为，更好地利用工作福利计划，以限制工作贫困者的增长，并指出工作贫困者面临的障碍与普通工人日益相似。
Executive Overview Employers have an important stake in the welfare-to-work reform efforts sweeping the country, since most involve mandated work and labor market preparation. Executives and managers should also be deeply interested in limiting the future growth of the working poor. In order to better tap workfare programs and its clients as an organizational resource, managers must have increased understanding of the work attitudes and behaviors of welfare recipients involved in such labor market transitional programs as the State of Michigan's pioneering Social Contract initiative. Strategies to enhance the career and employment prospects of the working poor should bear in mind that the obstacles confronting them, while major, are not abnormal. There are growing similarities between the career problems facing increasing numbers of American workers and those traditionally confronting the working poor. Addressing these issues will help not only the working poor but will improve the workplace in general.