Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business.
Finance Transformation: Leadership on Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation is a general and wide-ranging survey of finance transformation and emerging technologies.
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as 'white-collar beauties'.
Decent Work-Life in Business: Essential Tool for Sustainable Development presents a detailed discussion of the concept of decent work-life and its application in business for sustainable development.
Pulling aside the curtain of 'Big Data' buzz, this book introduces C-suite and other non-technical senior leaders to the essentials of obtaining and maintaining accurate, reliable data, especially for decision-making purposes.
Die Geschlechtersegregation am Arbeitsmarkt und die sich dadurch ergebenden Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Männer in Hinblick auf Tätigkeitsfelder, Positionen, Stundenausmaß, Einkommen, Aufstiegschancen usw.
John Sheldrake's long experience of teaching business and management to engineers has highlighted a gap in the knowledge of students and practitioners alike, between their grasp of developments in science and technology and how these developments lead to the creation of successful products.
Improvements in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about a sea change in the ways in which most people in the industrialized world work.
Im Kontext der Sozialen Arbeit sind in den letzten Jahren neue Innovationsformate entstanden, die die Kollaboration unterschiedlicher Akteure für Innovationsprozesse fokussieren.
Since its emergence at the end of the seventeenth century, industrial capitalism as a specific form of social organisation has set recurrent challenges to its own persistence, and until today, it has proved to be successful to develop new ways of accumulation based on its capacity of adaptation.
This edited volume analyses and discusses the systematisation of Polish socio-economic transformations of the last three decades using selected examples of the most important changes.
In many modern economies, creativity, the essential prerequisite for innovation, tends to be assumed or neglected while the catchphrase "e;innovation"e; dominates the field of business as the key to national performance and competitiveness.
Leading authors within organization studies and also from broader social science disciplines present the state of the art in the rapidly developing field of psychosocial approaches to organization studies and critical management studies.
This major practical handbook bridges the gap between strategy and design, presenting a step-by-step design process with a strategic approach and extensive methods for innovation, strategy development, design methodology and problem solving.
First published in 1983, this study investigates and compares three leading firms in the British iron and steel industry between 1914 and 1939, analysing their strategies, boardroom politics, and their responses to the problems posed by the Great War and by the vicissitudes of the 1920s and '30s.
With growing concern about the conditions facing low wage workers and new challenges to traditional forms of labor market protection, this book offers a timely analysis of the purpose and effectiveness of minimum wages in different European countries.
This volume brings together researchers from a diverse array of academic disciplines - including sociology, organization theory, strategy and psychology - to address the question of what organizations can do to better recognize novel ideas and support their proponents in implementing those ideas.
By drawing on the experiences of Danone, Nestle, Coca-Cola and SABMiller, this book provides an insight into why and how the managing a Chinese Partner can deliver value for a joint venture in China, a goal shared by many but achieved by few.
The conference was organized with the aim of providing a platform for experts, specialists, practitioners and researchers working in the field of technological and managerial innovation to share their views.
This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue.
Das bundesweite Förderprogramm "Integration durch Qualifizierung (IQ)" arbeitet seit 2005 an der Zielsetzung, die Arbeitsmarktchancen für Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund zu verbessern.
