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Book SynopsisCrisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age presents a wide, panoramic view into the state of modern professional work in the United States. Struggling labor markets, growing inequalities, and increasing amounts of cultural and political mistrust are but a few major changes undermining the people seen as essential in society and needed to compete in a globalized, highly skilled world.The authors explore this profound dilemma through a variety of methods, each one allowing them to identify significant areas of change and concern. They address macro-level social, political, and economic forces at the root of these changes and pair these explanations with illustrative vignettes of young, would-be professionals to paint a comprehensive, albeit complicated picture of professional work in the 21st century. Amid a backdrop of increasing globalization, technological advance, and cultural devaluation of expertise, the authors point attention to the mounting implications theseTrade ReviewThe precarious situation found within professional work raises questions about how society will organize expert knowledge. This book provides valuable insights about the reasons for and implications of the decline of these elite occupations. – Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThis well-written and engaging book demonstrates how economic, social and political changes have undermined professional work and career opportunities in the United States. Long considered among the very best jobs in the economy – secure, well-paid, autonomous and fulfilling – professional work has become more precarious and hence less appealing. Leicht and Fennell document these changes, masterfully linking economic, social, and political trends to the changing labour market for professional workers, demonstrating how social change has implications for current and future professional workers. In so doing, they provide rich insights of interest to a broad audience. – Tracey L. Adams, Professor, Western UniversityLeicht and Fennell marshal evidence from many sources to document the declining prospects for the traditional professions – and the glimmers of hope for students who are hoping to become scientists, academicians, attorneys, or physicians. – Teresa A. Sullivan, President Emerita and University Professor, the University of Virginia Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables and Box Inserts Part I: Crisis in the Professions: The New Dark Age 1. Introduction 2. The Context: Disinvestment in Jobs and Cultural Fragmentation 3. Technological Change, Globalization and Professional Work Part II: Change in the Professions 4. The Value of Professions and Diversity within Professions 5. The Emergence of the Professional Precariat 6. New Professionals and New Professions? Part III: Younger Workers and their Career Expectations 7. The Work life of Millennials and Other Generations 8. The New Dark Age: Rediscovering Knowledge as the Proper Basis of Authority 9. Epilogue: "This is not a Drill..."

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Class

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Book SynopsisThis accessible introductory text offers an engaging and thought-provoking discussion of class in relation to several cultural, sociological and political schools of thought and draws upon the works of a broad range of key theorists as well as contemporary thinkers to restate the ongoing importance of class as a sociological concept.Class has long been a key focus of sociological and political studies. This book explores what it might mean today in a twenty-first century context. Is class really disappearing? Is class morally justifiable? What impact has globalisation and neoliberalism had on the restructuring of class-based social relationships? These questions and others are explored in this short but lively book. Stevenson reviews a number of normative traditions including anarchist, Marxist, social democratic and citizenship-based forms of understanding of class in order to shed light on the themes of class-based experiences, health and inequality, work, class struTable of Contents1. Class as a Key Sociological Concept 2. Class Struggles 3. Class, Human Needs and Morality 4. Class Politics 5. Class and the Commons 6. Class, Work and the Labour Movement 7. Concluding Thoughts

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Embodiment and Fluidity in Organization and Management

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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies series challenges us to think again about the implications of gender, embodiment and fluidity for organizing and managing. The themes of this book disrupt our understanding of dualisms between sex (men and women), gender (masculinity and femininity) and mind / body, and in so doing analyze the ways in which dominant power relations constitute heteronormativity throughout organizational history, thereby reinforcing mainstream management research and teaching. By centring the work of women writers, this book gives recognition to their thinking and praxis; each writer making political inroads into changing the lived experiences of those who have suffered discrimination, exclusion and marginalization as they consider the ways in which organizational knowledge has tended to privilege rather than problematize masculinity, fixity, control, normativity, violence and discrimination.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Gender, embodiment and fluidity in organization and managementRobert McMurray & Alison Pullen 2 Joan Acker: Champion of feminist organization theoryYvonne Benschop3 When the shoe is on the Other foot: Simone de Beauvoir and organization theory Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler4 Julia Kristeva: Speaking of the body to understand the language of organizationsMarianna Fotaki 5 Marguerite Yourcenar: Anticipating the (queer) body (in organization studies)Chris Steyaert 6 Witnessing Eve: Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSaara L. Taalas7 J. Jack HalberstamNick Rumens

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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Great Unheard at Work

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Book SynopsisSilence always has something to say it's never neutral and speaks volumes if people are willing to hear. Our response to silence is often to dismiss or end it, to block it out with noise. Instead, silence needs to be taken seriously. This book explores the importance of understanding silence and shows how we can move from merely listening to truly hearing those around us.The interplay of voice and silence in organisational life is not straightforward. We can feel pressured to speak and compelled to keep our silence. Knowing how to read silence, to make sense of its generative and degenerative capacity, is a rarely developed skill among managers and leaders at all levels who have been brought up to see silence as evidence of compliance or a weakness to be addressed. But it is a critical skill for managers and employees alike. Written by two experts in organisational development, this book explores different types of silence and their implications for organisational practice,Table of ContentsPart I. Seven shades of workplace silence 1. An introduction to the seven shades of silence 2. The seven shades of silence in action Part II. Creating and sustaining climates of silence and voice 3. On silence 4. The meaning of silence 5. Silence as ritual 6. Self-silencing 7. Silence at work 8. Silence is a password 9. Lessons for corporate life (on sustaining climates of silence and voice) 10. Silence descends Part III. Thirty-five voices… and beyond 11. Thirty-five voices 12. Some notes on method and practical application Part IV. Dialogue retethered 13. Putting dialogue to work

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Taylor & Francis Workers Without Companies

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Book SynopsisWorkers Without Companies contributes to the debate on the future of work in a productive landscape that is now global, while ways of working diversify at an unprecedented pace.Faced with several decades of mass unemployment in Europe and the activation of self-employment â especially through intermediary platforms â this book examines the transformation of the wage system not only in traditional salaried sectors but also in self-employment, agriculture, and the field of science and knowledge production. The authors identify a common movement: the growing detachment between companies and their employees. This deep-rooted and enduring trend is reshaping the wage relationship at the core of modern societies, continuously altering and destabilizing workersâ lives. Recognizing this shift is essential to interrogating what work â and our lives â will become in the years ahead. The book therefore concludes with a proposed research agenda structured around five key axes.As such, Workers Without Companies will appeal to sociologists with interests in work and industry, employment and unemployment, organisation studies and labour relations.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Why Leaders Fail and What It Teaches Us About

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Book SynopsisIn Why Leaders Fail and What it Teaches Us About Leadership Willem Fourie helps us make sense of leaders' failures and why our expectation of leadership infallibility is misguided Whereas some leadership failures can be rectified, others lead to the failure of teams, organisations or institutions. Using cutting-edge research and reflective practices, Fourie explores leaders' failure at these personal, interpersonal, group, organisational levels and beyond. He explores five factors that cause leaders to fail: Ignorance of personal weaknesses Overconfidence in their influence over others Destructive bias Bad fit in their organisation Misjudged risk The author shows that our heroic bias the expectation that leaders should be exceptional, charismatic individuals with a higher level of agency than other people in many contexts increases the chances of leaders failing. The boTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Heroes and Failure Chapter 3: Leaders as Individuals: Heroic Personality Traits and Failure Chapter 4: Leaders and Followers: Monopolised Influence and Failure Chapter 5: Leaders and Groups: Destructive Bias and Failure Chapter 6: Leaders and the Organisation: Defective Culture and Failure Chapter 7: Leaders and their Environment: Misjudged Risk and Failure Chapter 8: Lessons for Post-Heroic Leaders (and Followers)

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Human Resource Management

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Principles and Practices of Management and

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Book SynopsisThis book offers perspectives, insights, techniques, and approaches for efficient and contemporary management practices in an organization. It provides a comprehensive insight into the traditional and contemporary approaches of organizational behavior and their impact on organizational performance in the global era. Ranging from planning to staffing, and controlling to strategic decision-making, the case studies in the book incorporate relevant modern management models and correlate practices of management from organizational perspectives to allow any organization's direction and environment to be evaluated with suggested recommendations. This textbook consists of two broad parts. The first deals with management trends and functions ranging from the traditional era to the contemporary world. The second part explores the behavioral trends of organizations across domains to analyze the measures taken for improved productivity and sustainability.Drawing theories from psychology,Trade Review"A truly comprehensive textbook on management and organization behavior. I was very pleased to see separate sections on history of management and how the management gurus perceive the future of governance."Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Business, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, USA"The second edition of Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behavior by Singh and Khatri offers extensive case-based learning and best practice guidance on every large-scale activity a modern-day manager and leader may engage in. Ranging from planning to staffing and controlling, to strategic decision-making, the case studies in the book incorporate Porter’s five forces and other modern management models to allow any organization’s competitive environment to be assessed and analyzed. The book then formulates a set of best practices for organizational sustenance using modern management techniques. The book also explains the key concepts and practices of effective leadership styles at all levels and goes on to distinguish these using the Hersey–Blanchard model. Under organizational behavior, this book lays emphasis on the electronic form of organization, its evolution and subsequent maturation and incorporation of action research models in the development of such organizations. Through multiple case studies and examples, developmental interventions and resistances to change within organizations are dealt with. Case studies with respect to organizational sustenance and ethical organizational culture, in alignment with changing business conditions and market scenarios, are presented to help the practitioners, researchers and management students at graduate, postgraduate and doctorate levels understand and adopt strategies, concepts, principles and practices. The authors have also included a discussion on organizational power and polity to enable the reader to understand their significance, exercise control and institute relevant organizational ethics for behaving politically and helping to co-create a healthy organizational culture as a stakeholder."Saurabh Sinha, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research, and Internationalization, Professor of Microelectronics, University of Johannesburg"A good pick! Not only for students and faculty, but also for new managers in organizations. The content is focused on connecting the basic theories of management, the principles, the concept and the structure, insights into the ever evolving organization culture and incorporating the modern day best practices and formulation of organizational behavioral strategies. Each chapter includes real life case studies that make the read even more interesting, relatable and easy to understand. The strength of the book lies in adherence to the tagline: The Complex Concepts Simplified Through Case Scenarios."Amlan Chakrabarti, Professor & Director,, A.K. Choudhury School of Information Technology, University of Calcutta and Head, IT & Tech. Innovation Cell, Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal."Chandrani Singh and Aditi Khatri’s book, Principles and Practices of Management and Organizational Behaviour (2nd ed.), is a complete package of management concepts, practices and organizational behaviour including management tips from gurus of yesteryear as well as modern times. Emphasizing functions and approach, it critically evaluates real-life business scenarios using strategic management and covers the behavioural aspects of an organization from people’s perspectives. I am sure it will be of immense use to the students, academic fraternity and budding professionals."Surbhi Dahiya (née Bhalla), IAMCR Faculty Ambassador, Professor, Department of English Journalism, Indian Institute of Mass Communication"This book offers a unique amalgamation of two significant academic concepts, that is, ‘Principles and Practices of Management’ and ‘Organizational Behavior.’Institutes offering niche programs often struggle with incorporation of these two as separate courses owing to their specialized focus on specific domains. This title addresses this problem and gives optimum as well as effective understanding of basic concepts related to principles and practices of management and organizational behavior in a single text."Nilesh P. Gokhale, Associate Professor, Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune, Mentor, Brand Communication Practice, Marketing SocietyTable of Contents1. Introduction to Management 2. Evolution of Management Thought 3. Planning 4. Organization 5. Staffing, Training and Development 6. Directing and Controlling 7. Decision-Making 8. Strategic Management 9. Organizational Behaviour 10. Understanding and Managing Individual Behaviour 11. Group and Group Dynamics 12. Team and Teamwork 13. Leadership 14. Motivation 15. Conflict Management 16. Organizational Development and Culture 17. Change Management 18. Stress Management 19. Power and Politics

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Taylor & Francis Academia versus the World Outside

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Book SynopsisAcademia versus the World Outside lays out the givens of the knowledge industry located within the ivory tower, colleges and universities. It then moves outside academia to consider this restricted world the way most people see it. The contrast between these two views of academia explains and is at the basis of the leftâright animosity of our day.The knowledge industry, a creation of the post-Enlightenment modern age along with other industrial and post-industrial enterprises, is based on creating and adding to a store of knowledge as its own end. This makes academia alien to the more random and personal nature of knowledge acquisition in our everyday lives, as indeed every industry is alien to everyday life in the modern age. Yet most academics are so immersed in the peculiar project they have chosen as their lifeâs work that they are either unaware of or unsympathetic to the fact that people outside live very different lives with very different presuppositions. Most non-academics, for their part, find academia strange, and for very good reason. Academia versus the World Outside makes this contrast and conflict clear from both directions.This book is aimed primarily at academics, most of whom so take for granted the givens of what they do that they fail to understand why the vast majority of people outside find academia alien. This has led to an increasingly hostile and utterly predictable leftâright political conflict, academia tending increasingly left and the world outside increasingly right. The goal of this book is to reduce the tension between both sides: if read by non-academics, this book may help these understand the givens of a world as strange to everyday life as any other specialized industry in the modern age.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding experience at work, especially in organizations that have toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include in-depth perspectives informed by psychosocial theory. This may be best accomplished by relying on complementary theories to account for what is found and experienced in our organizations and in particular a better understanding of why this is happening. Why did she do that? Why did he say that? Why did a group react the way they did? âœWhy,â is critical in terms of understanding organizational dynamics.Our lives at work in large complex and multidimensional organizations are saturated with experience, some of which is fulfilling, and some are of a darker nature that arises from the presence of toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics. Understanding these toxicities and dysfunctions and their effect on organization members is approached by first raising their awareness at the beginning of the book before providing psychosocially informed insights that form a basis for understanding and organizational change in the following sections.This book explores these work-life dynamics by grounding them in concrete examples and then using complementary psychoanalytically informed perspectives to illuminate their underlying, often unconscious nature filling an important gap in management and organizational literature.

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