This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine.
This book critically examines current workplace diversity management practices and explores a nuanced framework for undertaking, supporting, and implementing policies that equally favor all people.
Providing an overview of researchers' and practitioners' "e;confessions"e; on the fascinating phenomenon of failed or derailed organizational health and well-being interventions and contextualizing these confessions is the aim of this innovative volume.
This book provides a systematic overview on issues and challenges related to work identity and identification at work in the 'new' South African workplace.
These proceedings from the 2012 symposium on "e;Chaos, complexity and leadership"e; reflect current research results from all branches of Chaos, Complex Systems and their applications in Management.
Third generation coaching proposes a form of dialogue where coach and coachee are focused on creating space for reflection through collaborative practices and less concerned with fabricating quick solutions.
This book provides a strategic blueprint for understanding how pioneering emerging markets are leveraging the digital economy to challenge global economic hierarchies.
The Dynamics of Industrial Conflict (1980) focuses on the workings of industrial relations in the British motor industry, presenting the first joint retrospective analysis of industrial relations in a major multinational.
This book is the first in a series on Chinese management based on the Global Chinese Management Conferences (from 2015 to 2017), an annual conference organized by the Sun Tzu Art of War Institute.
Smart Cities Unbundled describes how the Smart Cities Mission has reconceptualized and extended the Smart City model in ways that makes it relevant and useful for most of India's major cities, as well as for many cities worldwide.
This collection examines the historically and geographically specific form of economic organization of the overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and how it has adapted to the different historical and socio-political contexts of Southeast Asian countries.
The first edition of the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Monitor tracks the development of the PPP business environment as well as the challenges of doing PPPs in nine of the developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB): Bangladesh, the People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
Norway has high levels of GDP per capita and inclusiveness, helped by business dynamism, sound petroleum-wealth management and comprehensive welfare and public services.
Norway has high levels of GDP per capita and inclusiveness, helped by business dynamism, sound petroleum-wealth management and comprehensive welfare and public services.
This 2001 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook provides an aessessment of labor market developments and policies in the OECD area as well as in-depth analyses of a number of crucial policy issues including spending on labour market policies, poverty dynamics, the characteristics and quality of service sector jobs, the work-family balance, and foreign workers.
This annual publication provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment.
This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment.
Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss.
Work Organization has achieved recent prominence in European policy, as new employment guidelines are embodied in the policies of all European Member States.
While the need to utilise knowledge from social research in processes of development in working life is growing, there is also a growing recognition of the problems posed by this utilisation.
Firms, the most significant nucleus of modern economic activity, are very special social organisations with economic purposes and also a responsibility for pursuing the welfare of all ranks of society.
Feminism, Diversity and HRD aims to enhance critical understandings of feminism, diversity and HRD theorization and practice in the global political economy.
This book builds on the success of "e;Working to Learn"e; (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) by focusing on the future of work and how young people, especially low-income young people and young people of color, are pursuing college and career goals through work-based learning experiences, yet encountering an increasingly racially and socioeconomically stratified labor market and educational system.
This book provides a comprehensive blueprint for organizations to strategically leverage AI technologies and drive innovation in their HRM practices, enabling them to cultivate a future-ready workforce that can thrive in the service-centric marketplace.
La clase media creía en el futuro: confiaba en que si cumplía lo que se le había asignado el porvenir le sonreiría, que la madurez sería económicamente mejor que la juventud, que sus hijos vivirían mejor que ellos y que sus opciones vitales se ampliarían.
Edith Penrose is best known for The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, originally published in 1959, but she made major contributions in other fields, including patents, the oil industry, and development economics.
El desempleo masivo es un rasgo distintivo de la sociedad española, campeona europea del paro desde hace décadas y sólo en fecha reciente superada por Grecia.
"La demolición de los derechos de los trabajadores se observa en el lenguaje de la economía on demand: no trabajas para, sino que colaboras con; no te despiden, te desconectas; no te controlan, te valoran.
Hay un recurrente mito neoliberal que arguye que todo individuo puede llegar a ser lo que se proponga; que querer es poder; que, en este mundo laboral de oportunidades infinitas, ser un triunfador está en las manos de cada uno, independientemente de cuáles sean sus orígenes.
"El trabajo remunerado es un elemento absolutamente central de la cultura y la política de las sociedades capitalistas, pese a que el mundo que conocemos, organizado alrededor del empleo, se está volviendo cada vez más hostil a la necesidad humana de autonomía, espontaneidad y de pertenencia a una comunidad.
La crisis económica que sacude el mundo desde 2008 y sus respuestas sociales a lo largo del planeta han demostrado la necesidad política de contar con una clase trabajadora, hoy huérfana y desnortada del proceso de cambio, cuyos problemas raras veces aparecen en los debates televisivos o se resuelven en los programas electorales.
El manuscrito Ochtagán es un "libro maldito" que destapa las oscuras simas donde se esconde el Mal, muy a menudo disfrazado de la más alta bondad y de los conceptos más sublimes y solidarios, y hábilmente utilizado por los poderosos de todos los tiempos para conseguir sus fines empleando las más maquiavélicas estrategias, que aquí se desvelan.
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La brecha entre la teoría anglosajona y la teoría marxista lejos de estar superada está en tensión entre los interrogantes que la Sociología del Trabajo no puede contestar.
Los hospitales han sido muy estudiados en el campo de las ciencias sociales, tanto por la centralidad que han ocupado en los Estados modernos como por su vínculo con el proceso de profesionalización de la medicina y los trabajos de cuidado.
Salarios de miseria, horas extra sin remunerar, pluriempleo y jornadas parciales, falta de tiempo para conciliación familiar u ocio, ansiedad –tantas veces devenida en depresión–, accidentes laborales, consumo de anfetaminas para rendir, indefensión ante los abusos empresariales, temporalidad, ofertas de trabajo surrealistas, sobrecualificación, falsos autónomos… La vorágine de precariedad sigue y sigue, mientras la obnubilante cultura del «tú puedes con todo», la romantización de la pobreza y la ideología del emprendimiento contribuyen a taponar las posibles vías de escape.
