Sociology: work and labour

The systematic approach to innovation development today is one of the world's most prominent scientific fields, and with good reason.

This unique book enhances our understanding of the links between professions, the state and the market - and their implications for the public in terms of professional practice.

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself.

Beyond Inclusion adopts a holistic and systems view of the organization, presents a behavioral model of organizational inclusion based upon research with thousands of employees, and discusses elements of organizational design that need to be adjusted to create, nurture, and sustain an inclusive culture.

Um Schule zukunftsfähig zu machen, bedarf es mehr denn je großer Anstrengungen möglichst aller Beteiligter.

To thrive in academia, wellbeing must be understood and nurtured.

Global Themes and Local Variations in Organization and Management: Perspectives on Glocalization offers a broad exposition of the relations between the global and the local with regard to organizational and managerial ideas, practices, and forms.

Gesundheitsfördernde Arbeitsumgebung, familienfreundliche Karriereplanung oder altersgerechte Arbeitsgestaltung - für zukunftsfähige Krankenhäuser, stationäre Pflegeheime und ambulante Pflegedienste ist die Beschäftigung guter, zufriedener Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter das Kapital demographischen Herausforderungen zu begegnen.

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and labour markets and older workers.

Is the EU enlargement the success EU institutions proclaim?

Population ageing is among the most important developments of our time.

With a focus on five major regions globally (UK, US, Europe, Canada, and Australia) Identifying and Managing Risk at Work outlines key regional factors affecting risk and its management.

Fashion Branding and Consumer Behaviors presents eye-opening theory, literature review and original research on the mutual influence of branding strategies and consumer response.

This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households.

'A powerful treatise' - Amelia Gentleman, GuardianIn 2019, over 10,000 possible victims of slavery were found in the UK.

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the business, financial and economic aspects of emerging markets.

Despite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations.

Based on interviews with Leamington greenhouse growers and migrant Mexican workers, Tanya Basok offers a timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed.

This book explores new approaches to successful innovation - with all uncertainty.

Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed empirical analysis of the key dimensions of inequality and poverty in Wales, discussing such aspects as the distribution of income and wealth, the housing situation, the functioning of the NHS and urban deprivation.

Equal Time, Equal Value is the first systematic investigation of Time Banking in the United States.

In this book, leading organization theorist Gibson Burrell presents a provocative and challenging approach to the study of organizations, aiming to move beyond the two-dimensionality of much organizational thinking and present more complex 3-D models, which allow for the 'intractions' of apparently disparate perspectives.

Making Work and Family Work investigates the difficult choices that contemporary employees must face when juggling work and family with a view to identifying the smart choices that all parties involved-society, employers, employees and families-should make to promote greater work-life balance.

This volume captures themes and debates around elucidating and studying workplace bullying, emotional abuse and harassment.

How is practical change work carried out in modern organizations?

This book offers a new framework for conceptualizing and managing organizations when using new information and communication technologies, for example decision support and artificial intelligence.

Realism has been one of the most powerful new developments in philosophy and the social sciences and is now making an increasing impact in business and management studies.

Größere konjunkturelle Zeitabschnitte – sogenannte Kondratieff-Zyklen – von 50 oder sogar 60 Jahren werden bereits seit einiger Zeit in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften diskutiert.

"e;Bongiovanni's message should be heeded, especially in Brussels, Berlin and Paris"e; - John Peet, Political Editor, The EconomistFrancesco Bongiovanni returns with a sequel to The Decline and the Fall of Europe, a book Guardian journalist Nils Pratley labelled 'a wake-up call for the twenty-first century'.

The recent surge of interest in digital ecosystems is not only transforming the business landscape, but also poses several human and organizational challenges.

Authored by masters in the field of coaching, this book is designed as a course textbook for those studying coaching in general, but with a specific reference to the updated competences introduced by the International Coaching Federation in 2020.

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality.

Professions have long provided a dependable body of expertise that organisations have relied upon to fulfil goals.

Since its establishment in 1965, Business Economics has been an essential resource for those who use economics in the workplace.

This book focuses on the experience of social dialogue in Turkey, which is a European Union candidate country.

The issue of physical resources is one of considerable interest in the field of human resource management, but the solution to such difficulties must depend upon the skills and enterprise of those in positions of management.

The visual constitutes an increasingly significant element of contemporary organization, as post-industrial societies move towards economies founded on creative and knowledge-intensive industries.

This book injects a burst of energy into the sociology of work, offering a perspective that is both innovative and deeply informed.

Marketing has situated itself as an indispensable tool in today's business world-an unavoidable step in the process from production to consumption.

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Work starts with a deceptively simple question of, "e;Do events and experiences during adolescence influence the work outcomes of individuals when they reach adulthood?

Competition for resources, recognition, and favorable outcomes are all facts of life in professional settings.

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations considers how organizations operate as spaces in which minds are gendered and men and women constructed.