Office and workplace

The way we work is changing in the Internet age.

Studies the steps taken by a group of professionals from the Boomer generation as they move from a linear career path into an uncharted stage somewhere between middle age and old age, a continued professional life and traditional retirement.

Many of the project management methods and techniques of the past are still being used today, even though the technology, management and environment have changed.

Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete.

With the accelerating integration of China into the global economy, there is a thirst to understand how Chinese managers like to lead and how Chinese employees like to be managed.

The costs of stress and ill-health to society are enormous.

Corporate diversity programs often fail because of resistance in workplace culture.

A collection of engaging and thought-provoking essays looking at the world of business and management during a recession.

High levels of well-being at work is good for the employee and the organization.

This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation.

The best-kept secret in corporate life is the vanishing act of women on their way to the top.

In a difficult economic climate it is more important than ever to manage bad behaviour in the workplace and minimize the damage negative and destructive employees can have on an organization.

Our lives are full of defining moments, but do we recognize them?

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity.

A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world.

This book explores ethnographic studies of diagnostic work in diverse settings.

A highly practical and insightful book; it will help you to perform more effectively in a workplace which requires you to function effectively in predominantly adversarial relationships.

This innovative new work clarifies the misconceptions around body language while providing a scientific approach to understanding non-verbal communication at work.

Employee and manager rebellions occur more often than you might think.

This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people.

Through sharing the research methodologies, and describing intervention and change techniques used in leadership development, this book, written by IGLC-INSEAD professors and leadership coaches, contributes to a better understanding of how organizations may go beyond coaching in order to create best places to work.

This book from the acclaimed management writer Adrian Furnham, explores the dark side of leadership and how and why leaders can have a negative impact upon their companies and organisations.

Introduces you to a valuable set of tools enabling you to build influence, promote your interests and get buy-in to your plans and proposals.

The forces that are shaping the future of employment are examined in this new book.

A cutting edge look at the experience of worker representation in the employment relations of workplace health and safety.

This is a comprehensive, practical and engaging book designed to help readers to recognise bullying behaviour at work and identify and select inter-personal strategies for handling bullying behaviour.

The history of United Nations peacekeeping is largely one of failure.

This book is about the "e;leadership illusion"e;; the habit of writers, researchers and leaders, when considering causes of success or failure, to focus mainly on the individual and often the context but rarely both.

Do you want to acquire the knowledge and skills to give you greater influence in political situations at work?

From a pioneer of team emotional intelligence comes a practical guide for building high-performing teams.

Bringing together contributions from international scholars, this book explores the changing nature of young people's transitions and challenges assumptions about pathways from education into employment in contemporary society.

No Fear highlights two challenges we face in the workplace, and in our daily lives.

This book explores the evolution of international punishment from a natural law-based ground for the use of force and conquest to a series of jurisdictional and disciplinary practices in international law not previously seen as being conceptually related.

Increased longevity and better health are changing the nature of family life.

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant additional materials and changes since its original publication immediately after the initial release of the NEC4 contracts.

Despite the surge of interest over the last decade in cultural phenomena in organizations, researchers of widely differing disciplinary backgrounds, epistemologies, methodological preferences, and political ideologies continue to disagree about fundamental issues--with good reason.

With the growth of the global economy over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, at both the national and international levels, have undergone rapid development in order to strengthen the protection standards for foreign investors.

Despite the surge of interest over the last decade in cultural phenomena in organizations, researchers of widely differing disciplinary backgrounds, epistemologies, methodological preferences, and political ideologies continue to disagree about fundamental issues--with good reason.

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

Friendship is one of our most important social institutions.

Class arbitration first developed in the United States in the 1980s as a means of providing large numbers of individuals with the opportunity to assert their claims at the same time and in the same proceeding.

Enacted as a special interest bill in 1925, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) positioned arbitration well among specialized merchant communities.

Increasing workplace diversity has given rise to growing intergroup challenges that persistently manifest in discrimination.

Increasing workplace diversity has given rise to growing intergroup challenges that persistently manifest in discrimination.

While arbitration was robust in colonial and early America, dispute resolution lost its footing to the court system as the United States grew into a bustling and burgeoning country.

While arbitration was robust in colonial and early America, dispute resolution lost its footing to the court system as the United States grew into a bustling and burgeoning country.