Sociology: work and labour

The flourishing fast food industry represents one particular blueprint of how to live.

In recent years, a critically oriented sub-stream of research on Muslim consumers and businesses has begun to emerge.

The most important goals for an organization in the Fourth Industrial Revolution will be innovation and enhanced performance.

Sitting at the nexus of labor migration and health care work, this book examines the dynamic relationship between nurses' cross-border movement and efforts to regulate their migration.

This book describes the early career outcomes for female creative graduates in Australia and the UK.

Die hier wieder zugänglich gemachte zweibändige Biographie Friedrich Engels‘ von Gustav Mayer gilt bis heute als bedeutendes Standardwerk.

With its inception at the end of the nineteenth century as a means of consolidation and reorganization, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have since become quasi-institutionalized as one of the primary strategic options for organizations, as they seek to secure their position in an ever more competitive and globalizing market place.

This book connects political economy perspectives with scenario planning for mapping out future trajectories of digital ecosystems.

The workplace can be a hotbed of difficulty and incivility-from rumors spread about an individual, to the agonies of stress, to physical attacks and even death.

In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal.

Project Management for Engineering, Business, and Technology is a highly regarded textbook that addresses project management across all industries.

As with other parts of business, technology is having a profound effect on the world of work and management of human resources.

"e;When the digital world started, many companies moved slowly and cautiously, not willing to replace their traditional operations.

Expertise is recast as fluid collaboration on complex tasks that requires envisioning the future and mastering change.

This book explores the relevance of management accounting research and practice for a range of broader, societal phenomena related to corporate governance and regulation, the creation and maintenance of markets and their concomitant social and political implications.

The Economic Analysis of Unions (1986) thoroughly examines a range of theoretical and empirical literature on the economics of labour unions.

This book addresses growing tensions in Northeast Asia, notably between North Korea and China.

More than ever, organisations are facing a data avalanche from various sources, be they in electronic or hard copy format.

Das Buchvorhaben bringt zwei Themen zusammen, die unterschiedlich lange Traditionen innerhalb der Soziologie besitzen, aber beide von ungebrochener Aktualität sind: das Thema „Individuum und Organisation“ sowie das Thema „Emotionen am Arbeitsplatz“.

How does new information technology become part of the fabric of organisational life?

This book describes why, for the past twenty-five years, Japanese productivity has been growing more rapidly than productivity in the U.

While the working lives of tech entrepreneurs and delivery platform workers seem far removed, both are engaged in digital labor.

Addresses increased diversity in government work forces, and management strategies appropriate for managing diversity.

The book presents the latest studies on the work-life balance of millennial (also known as Generation Y) building professionals in Singapore and South Korea.

This volume applies a systems science perspective to complex policy making dynamics, using the case of Indonesia to illustrate the concepts.

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 the economical changing and political disturbing times we are living a question concerns us all: Is this the society I want to live in?

Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever.

In an era of pandemic infection, the importance of hygiene at home and in public spaces has never been greater.

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North America, this book examines conventional leadership development methodologies with a view to identifying what is useful and what is not.

Our organizations are flooded with empty talk.

This book aims to develop four key challenges that remain unresolved in the boundary-spanning literature, which span from the conceptual, to the practice, to the translational.

Who made up the working class in Britain, who were the ordinary men and women and what were their aspirations?

This book offers a detailed theoretical analysis of the fields of learning and management in the digital age.

Studies on culture, change and social processes within organizations have been historically organized around orthogonal approaches.

This collection sets out to explore technology policy in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s.

In the dynamic landscape of the digital era, where interactions span from the personal touch of face-to-face conversations to the vast, interconnected world of the internet, understanding trust has never been more crucial.

How do markets function?

This book analyses the arrival of emerging and traditional information and technology for public and economic use in Latin America.

This book provides a concrete guide on how to execute strategic pricing to excel in an increasingly dynamic and digitised business environment, while developing and deepening relations with contract partners.

This book presents a collection of original research papers focusing on the enabling aspects of Information and Communication Technologies.

The focus of the book is to help readers understand how certain concepts and values influence the way Germans like to do business.

With recent advances in IT in areas such as AI and IoT, collaboration systems such as business chat, cloud services, conferencing systems, and unified communications are rapidly becoming widely used as new IT applications in global corporations' strategic activities.

Destructive organizational behaviors including destructive leadership, abusive supervision, workplace bullying, sexual harassment in the workplace, workplace deviance, workplace incivility, workplace ostracism, social loafing, and workplace discrimination and injustice are explored in this book.

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods.