Sociology: work and labour

The Manager's Guide to Industrial Relations (1968) traces the origins and evolution of the attitudes of managers and men from the beginning of industrialization to the Fawley Agreement.

This book examines the effectiveness of corporate takeovers.

Deriving business value from analytics is a challenging process.

In recent years, trust has enjoyed increasing interest from a wide range of parties, including organizations, policymakers, and the media.

Management by Agreement (1973) examines the ramifications of the 1971 Industrial Relations Act and industrial relations in Britain.

Max Weber (1864-1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology.

Storytelling is part of social action and interaction that actually shapes the future of organizations.

Feeding the world's growing population is a critical policy challenge for the twenty-first century.

Students of public administration, public policy, and nonprofit management require a strong foundation in how government and NGOs are connected with information technology.

When re-imagining, re-thinking, and re-writing entrepreneurship in this book, the authors have come to the conclusion that the concept that describes it most precisely is one that signifies a process that includes imagining, seductively describing, playfully organizing, political agility in navigating common sense, and business sensibility before possible commerce.

New Directions in the Sociology of Health links a number of contemporary issues to a broader sociological framework.

Examining the subtle forms of aggression, violence, and harassment that occur in our society and manifest in institutions and places of work, the expert contributors collected here describe the experience of social marginalization and expose how vulnerable individuals work to navigate exclusionary climates.

This book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today.

Accounting Ethics Education: Teaching Virtues and Values gathers a diversity of contributions from invited, well-known experts.

In this major work, sociologists Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello go to the heart of the changes in contemporary capitalism.

Eine Idee breitet sich aus: Das Soziale, die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung neu begreifen – als Aktionsfeld gesellschaftlichen Unternehmertums im wahren Wortsinn.

More than 7 million recipients of Social Security benefits have a representative payeea person or an organizationto receive or manage their benefits.

In this book, originally published in 1980, John Argenti deliberately and systematically strips away the sophisticated methods for corporate planning to get down to a practical corporate planning process that works.

This book presents a sociomaterial perspective on work and organizational practices within the operating room.

Supporting Children and Their Families Facing Health Inequities in Canada fills an urgent national need to analyze disparities among vulnerable populations, where socio-economic and cultural factors compromise health and create barriers.

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines.

Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Rothschild Book AwardsPlatform cooperatives reimagine a world where domestic workers can double their income by establishing their own platform-an internet where platforms such as Twitch, Twitter, and Roblox were owned by their streamers, users, and creators.

This casebook extends Strategic Risk Leadership: Engaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty and the Unknown, bringing theory and practice grounded in the first book to life with an array of applicable, real-world examples.

Marriages that involve the migration of at least one of the spouses challenge two intersecting facets of the politics of belonging: the making of the 'good and legitimate citizens' and the 'acceptable family'.

In this book, first published in 1988, the author shows that the movement for industrial democracy has deep roots in British history, and looks at the economic and political potential of industrial democracy as a mechanism to halt 100 years of industrial decline.

East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years.

This book provides a first-hand account of business analytics and its implementation, and an account of the brief theoretical framework underpinning each component of business analytics.

A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in our present day and age.

Data is an intrinsic part of our daily lives.

The Hidden Intelligence explores what intuition is and is not, and why it is often hidden.

This book begins from the central premise that progressive social change requires collective struggle underpinned by a clear strategy, and that processes of neoliberal globalisation have altered the cartography upon which social struggle takes place.

In den modernen Gesellschaften des Westens nimmt das Übertragen von materiellen und immateriellen Gütern auf eine nachfolgende Generation einen hohen Stellenwert ein.

This book reviews, updates and enhances the basic concepts surrounding the academic theory and practice of Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC).

This book showcases issues of work and employment in contemporary India through a critical lens, serving as a systematic, scholarly and rigorous resource which provides an alternate view to the glowing metanarrative of the subcontinent's ongoing economic growth in today's globalized world.

Kristina Höly widmet sich im vorliegenden Band der Frage, ob die scheinbare Entterritorialisierung der Finanzwelt auch für deren Akteure gilt.

The modern world is characterised by pervasive economic inequalities.

Statusfragen erleben derzeit eine Renaissance durch die Pluralisierung von Beschäftigungsformen und den Anstieg atypischer Beschäftigung.

Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week.

Drawing on the experiences of six expatriate leaders who, collectively, had more than 78 years of experience managing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) international development projects in 26 countries around the world, this book provides a scholarly analysis of their stories, identifies factors expatriate leaders experienced managing projects, then integrates the factors into a theory that explains and helps define the success, or lack thereof, they achieved, and provides recommendations on how to deal with and overcome the issues.

The practice of consultation between senior managers and employee representatives has a long history in British employment relations yet has often been overshadowed by discussions on collective bargaining.

Economic development is a priority for all nation-states, whether developing or developed.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.