As the world of work and jobs is more uncertain than ever because of various trends impacting it, including the rise of robotics and the gig economy, Cooperatives and the World of Work furthers the debate on the future of work, sustainable development, and the social and solidarity economy of which cooperatives are a fundamental component.
Contingency tables arise in diverse fields, including life sciences, education, social and political sciences, notably market research and opinion surveys.
Occupational stress affects millions of people every year and is not only costly to the individual - in terms of their mental and physical health - but also results in major costs for organisations due to workplace absence and loss of productivity.
The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.
Introducing eight analytical approaches that are key to successful social science research, this book helps you get to grips with theory and apply it to qualitative analysis.
Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has.
The most complete and authoritative guide to Gen Z, describing how leaders must adapt their employment, sales and marketing, product, and growth strategies to attract and keep this important new generation of customers, employees and trendsetters.
'Wayleave' is an archaic term from the nineteenth century defined as 'a privilege enabling a person to cross another person's land with infrastructure and with goods and chattels'.
The Power of Mattering offers simple, straightforward guidance to ensure we create thriving, cooperative, and high-trust cultures in which people really feel like they matter.
The book presents the proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Management of Manufacturing Systems (MMS 2020), which took place online on October 27-29, 2020.
Nach dem großen Erfolg des ersten Soul@Work-Kongresses in 2014 war auch die zweite von Katharina Maehrlein und ihrer Initiative "Stark wie Bambus" organisierte Veranstaltung zur Prävention von psychischen Erkrankungen am Arbeitsplatz im Frühjahr 2015 ein großer Erfolg.
Proven HR strategies that can have a real impact on organizational success This book demonstrates how some of the world's most admired and prominent organizations are redefining HR leadership by using evidence-based change to inform human capital decisions that optimize efficiency, effectiveness and strategic impact.
Das vorliegende Werk stellt eine empirische Untersuchung zu den Voraussetzungen, Wirkungspotenzialen und Umsetzungshindernissen der Gestaltung von weiblichen Führungskarrieren dar, die sich an Lebenszyklen orientiert und sich als Beitrag zur geschlechterorientierten Karriereforschung versteht.
This title, originally published in 1984, is based on a study of the work of general and production managers in companies in Britain and Germany, and gives a life-like account of the realities of management, including the problems, crises and unresolved tensions.
Creative Business Education is emerging rapidly to address the needs of the creative industries including digital media, journalism, advertisement, music, marketing, films, fashion and sports business etc.
Making the Invisible Visible is a study of Asian Americans in the workplace and provides a framework through which to transform the same qualities that are contributing to this invisibility phenomenon into a positive leadership approach that provides a counterweight to balance the showmanship approach to leadership.
Netnography is an adaptation of ethnography for the online world, pioneered by Robert Kozinets, and is concerned with the study of online cultures and communities as distinct social phenomena, rather than isolated content.
This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential of experimental writing as an alternative source of 'knowledge' and political imagination within the modern university and the contemporary structures of neoliberal government.
Research and Writing in International Relations, Fourth Edition, offers the step-by-step guidance and the essential resources needed to compose political science papers that go beyond description and into systematic and sophisticated inquiry.
Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende, praxisorientierte Einführung in die Tokenisierung von Immobilien und zeigt auf, wie die Blockchain-Technologie den Immobilienmarkt nachhaltig verändert.
The contributions in Creating Healthy Workplaces include a number of interventions that relate the efforts undertaken by researchers and organizations together, to reduce stress and improve the mental and physical health of employees through positive change initiatives.
In diesem Fachbuch werden notwendige Ressourcen und praktische Handlungsmöglichkeiten für Unternehmen aufgezeigt, um internationale Fachkräfte in der DACH-Region zu finden, zu binden und zu entwickeln.
Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography.
Volume 34 of Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management contains six chapters on emerging issues in the field of human resources management, thus continuing the tradition of the RPHRM series to publish cutting-edge work that pushes the field forward.
