Elizabeth Ferry explores how members of the Santa Fe Cooperative, a silver mine in Mexico, give meaning to their labor in an era of rampant globalization.
Diversity: A Key Idea for Business and Society introduces an idea that proliferates business and society, having been incorporated into mainstream theory and practice.
The insights of complexity science can allow today's managers to embrace the challenges and uncertainty of the twenty-first century, and successfully oversee organizational change and development.
From fragile, corporate-controlled supply chains breaking down, to millions of already hyper-exploited farmworkers risking their lives in the fields without basic personal protective equipment, the COVID-19 pandemic made it painfully obvious that US agriculture does not work.
Plattformarbeit wird nicht zuletzt aufgrund der oft prekären Erwerbsbedingungen nur der Stellenwert eines (zeitweisen) Nebenerwerbs oder eines bezahlten Hobbys zugesprochen.
This book offers a comparative exploration of the various disadvantages experienced by a category of atypical workers compared to standard employees, in the UK and Italy, and considers whether and how the differences can be attributed to contrasting institutional settings and political economies.
Two seminal crises of the early 21st century - the 9/11 terrorist attacks and COVID-19 pandemic - have led emerging generations of workers to prioritize the meaning and purpose of work.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of organizational diversity management, intended to help readers implement effective strategies and maximize the value of organizational diversity.
This practical guide is a must read for students interested in developing the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and values that foster positive relationships with people from diverse cultures both within and outside of the workplace.
This book explores the governance and ramifications of managerial ties in China's B2B contexts, with the aim of uncovering theoretical mechanisms and practical strategies for effective management of these relationships.
Any study of contemporary industrial societies must take into account the role of power, ideology and class, and the degree to which these determine the development of social structures.
Elke Weyer sheds light on the question why, after more than three decades of higher education reforms in some countries, it is still not clear whether the reforms have achieved their stated goals, i.
Offering a fresh and practical perspective for employers and gender-diverse professionals, this book presents useful tools, information, and resources to help organizations and individuals to understand and leverage the power of gender authenticity as a pathway to business success.
Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organization of Emergency Services makes an important contribution to the subject of emergency services management and to public administration and organization studies more generally.
This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.
The Brewers Association's Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery distills the wisdom of craft brewing veteran Dick Cantwell into one text that delivers essential industry insight.
Training and Promotion in Nationalised Industry (1951) is the results of a study made into the personnel department and into certain aspects of personnel policy in the nationalised coal, electricity, gas, transport and airways industries in postwar Britain.
This book studies the dramatic changes in consumption patterns in Vietnam over the past decades, combining a focus on everyday practices and societal transformations.
Leadership and Wisdom: Narrating the Future Responsibly gives business students and practitioners the opportunity to re-read tales, poems, myths and fables that have been interpreted by leading management scholars in order to translate the world's folk wisdom into insightful and actionable lessons for a more responsible leadership practice.
This volume examines the interplay of society and economy against the backdrop of recent crises as well as technological, political and social change in Europe.
Contributing to the debate on work performance evaluation in a time of technological transformation, this book explores the impact of digitisation on production and organisation models, as well as on the rights and interests of the stakeholders involved.
Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of theory related to identities accumulated across the arts, social sciences, and humanities over many decades continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations.
