Labor category: 1449 books
by Rob Millar, Valerie Crute, Owen Hargie
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This book, first published in 1992, presents a detailed, informed and informative account of research, theory and practice in interviewing. As a single source for practitioners, it focuses on the professional practice of interviewing as a strategy for achieving specific objectives. As well as providing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
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 purpose of this book, first published in 1975, is to focus upon these...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book investigates the interplay of the recent transformation of working life and the growing appeal of political right-wing populism and extremism in Europe. It explores the individual and collective reactions and the strategies people develop in order to come to terms with socio-economic change....
Training at Work
Critical Analysis of Workplace Training and Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Training in the workplace can be costly and time-consuming. Consequently it is often neglected. However, it plays an essential part in a company's success, increasing the level of performance, aiding strategic decision-making and maximizing quality and efficiency. Using detailed surveys and encompassing...
Unequal Time
Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Life is unpredictable. Control over one’s time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredictability, keeping a job, and raising a family. But the ability to control one’s time, much like one’s income, is determined to a significant degree by both gender and class. In Unequal Time, sociologists...
Counterproductive Work Behaviors
Understanding the Dark Side of Personalities in Organizational Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
There has been a growing interest among scholars in the fields of organizational behaviour and industrial psychology in what can be termed "the dark side of the organizations." A main concept in this regard this is both important and relevant counterproductive work behaviours (CWBs), which...
Domestica
Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence, With a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles. The new preface looks at the current issues facing immigrant domestic workers in a global context.
Information and Communications Technologies in Society
E-Living in a Digital Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and...
Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization
Inside the Factory of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola...
by Niels Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The first half of the book is a description of Norway's Labour Market, with up-to-date data, examples and graphs, including a case study.
The second half is a description of North Sea's oil explotation, focusing on the Norwegian Oil Industry, and a description of what's *The Oil Fund *(The Government Pension Fund) and how it works.
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Sports Agents and Labour Markets
Evidence from World Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world,...
by Ignasi Ferrer Lorenzo, Pablo Medina Aguerrebere
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
¿Qué es lo que diferencia a un publicitario de un empresario de la publicidad? ¿Por qué son tan pocas las agencias que logran sobrevivir durante varios años? Este libro responde a estas y otras muchas preguntas y explica la importancia de los conceptos económicos (finanzas, modelos de rentabilidad,...
by Jamie Gough
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This theoretical and empirical study examines the relationship between the organisation of work, industrial relations, production spaces and the dynamics of capitalist investment. Jamie Gough explores the connections between labour process change, products, local economy and society, spaces and forms...
Power for the People: Protecting States' Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation
Protecting States' Energy Policy Interests in an Era of Deregulation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Power for the People examines the tension between the social and political interests of states and the market in the case of energy policy. The author has conducted extensive research on California's experience with electricity restructuring, and assesses how the diverging interests of the market...