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Emerald Publishing Limited Occupational Training in the Future of Work
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Emerald Publishing Limited The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and
Book SynopsisMental health issues, stress and chronic illness are the biggest causes of absence from work and loss of productivity in most Western economies. Research and public awareness of this epidemic of physical and mental ill-health among working age people is growing, but our understanding of its impact on company performance and productivity and possible solutions for the future is less advanced. The Healthy Workforce: Enhancing Wellbeing and Productivity in the Workers of the Future examines current challenges and future solutions to understand issues around how we can improve the health of today's and tomorrow's workforce. This book will look at why workforce health is such an important challenge for businesses, governments and for employees today and how this will increase in the future with an ageing workforce. Closely linked to the authors' exploration of health issues in the work context is a focus on the impact of worker health on direct and indirect productivity costs. This book offers practical guidance for professionals on getting started in the delivery of an effective and evidence-based workplace health plan which can enhance and sustain productivity growth in business now and for the future.Table of ContentsForeword; Andy Haldane Chapter 1. Why Worker Health and Productivity Matter Chapter 2. How Health Affects Productivity Chapter 3. Health and Work in a Pandemic Chapter 4. Is Your Manager Bad for Your Health? Chapter 5. Productivity at Work: The Role of Healthcare Professionals Chapter 6. Workplace Health Interventions to Improve Productivity Chapter 7. Rethinking Workforce Health as an Asset Chapter 8. A Roadmap to Better Worker Health
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Disclosing Entrepreneurship as Practice: The
Book SynopsisThis is an ambitious and engaging book. It lays the foundations for a methodology that bridges entrepreneurship researchers?' need to provide explanations and practitioners?' need to make their local world comprehensible --? by calling the researcher to also practise as an entrepreneur.Disclosing Entrepreneurship as Practice outlines and demonstrates this '?enactive?' approach and its outcomes in terms of a proposed practice theory of entrepreneurship. Presenting entrepreneurship as a sense-making, stabilising force in a liquid and ambiguous world, accordingly addressed as ?'entrepreneuring?', Bengt Johannisson argues that the duality of shrewdness and prudence provides the appropriate knowledge needed to practice entrepreneurship. By generalising entrepreneurship as creative organizing in multiple arenas beyond just the market, and conceptualising entrepreneurship as practice, this book presents a compelling rationale for considering entrepreneuring as ?'routinized improvisation?' dealing with situations as they arise.Reflective and thoughtful, this book will be of interest to researchers in the field of entrepreneurship concerned with theoretical and methodological matters, as well as those engaged with qualitative methodology in the social sciences.Trade Review'Bengt Johannisson's strength as a scholar and researcher is his ability to push the boundaries of what entrepreneurship is, as a process, as well as his keen sense of how and why entrepreneurial processes should be studied. Please acquire this book and, then, carefully explore the ideas and methods he proposes for entrepreneurship scholars to engage in enactive research as ''entresearchers'' - scholars who are actively involved in entrepreneurial activities who use these experiences as the basis for generating insights into enterpreneuring (entrepreneurship as a verb - as ''organizing'' is to ''organization''.) I enthusiastically support the ''entresearcher'' paradigm and the methods Bengt Johannisson describes for scholars to engage as ''entresearchers'' as part of their everyday practice. I believe that the ''entresearcher'' approach is the most fruitful way for scholars to gain profound insights into the nature of entrepreneurial processes.' --William B. Gartner, Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship, Babson College, US'In his new book, Bengt Johannisson develops the concept of entrepreneurship as practice (entrepreneuring). The contribution is original, relevant and valuable for both researchers and practitioners. The book's objectives appear particularly important. The first is to provide the intellectual/theoretical foundations for our understanding of entrepreneuring. The second objective is to offer a methodology that can enhance the dialogue between researchers and practitioners. As Kurt Lewin claimed, there is nothing more practical than a good theory. Thanks to the author this statement makes sense in entrepreneurship?' --Alain Fayolle, Emlyon Business School, FranceTable of ContentsContents: 1. Departure and Roadmap, Provisions and Destiny 2. From Process Philosophy to Practice Theory – Building and Furnishing a Paradigmatic Platform 3. Featuring Enactive Research as a Methodology 4. Practising Enactive Research – Constructing and Contrasting Tales of Entrepreneuring 5. The Practice of Entrepreneuring – Lessons From the Field 6. Exploring the Promises of Enactive Research Bibliography Index
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Business Expert Press Guerrilla Warfare in the Corporate Jungle: Adaptations for Survival
Book SynopsisThis book is a survival manual for corporate life which guides the reader on how best to navigate its pitfalls and avoid being trapped. It fuses three separate but intertwined disciplines of the Animal kingdom, The Guerrilla battlefield and the corporate world to help establish patterns of behavior and the motivations that underpin each action.All three areas share a common environment; the jungle, where visibility is limited and ambush is the only method of attack by predators. The book blends animal and human psychology and gives safe passage in all its encounters. The book has been meticulously researched with animal behavior being documented and applied to human psychology with additional research on Military techniques and combat psychology on ambush and counter insurgency also applied to human psychology in the attempts to understand and react to conflict in the workplace. This book is designed to assist people at any stage in their career to better understand the motivations that underpin human interactions within the workplace. I have attempted to fuse three separate but closely related environments to highlight patterns and similarities that we can use to better ourselves in our daily interactions in our working lives. As stated above; the corporate world, the animal kingdom and the battlefield all seem like an unlikely amalgamation but you will see that that all environments share common objectives, strategies and interdependencies that underpin everyday survival. This book does not condone war, quite the opposite as you will see it takes more of a defensive position in repelling attacks and seeks to promote the occurrence of collaboration over individual competition which will also become apparent.It is not a ‘call to arms’ or a promotion of anarchy, not by any stretch of the imagination, as it merely assists the individual in adapting within their environment in order to ensure their survival. Whether you work as an Accountant, IT consultant, Lawyer, Salesperson or Project Manager; the same logic still applies as there is a natural order in all corporate vocations. It matters not whether the majority of your business is carried out via teleconferences, Video conference or in person, the same logic will still apply. Face to face however will normally be the most impactful but you must learn to see the same politics played out through other mediums. The book's main message is that in order to be effective and survive in this world you will need to become an expert in three interrelated areas; You will need to know your environment, know your opponent an above all know yourself. Once you have mastered these three areas, you will enjoy the corporate world like never before.
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Information Age Publishing Diversity Equity and Inclusion Insights in
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Forbesbooks The Winding Road to Excellence: Leadership
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Building A ProBlack World
Book SynopsisLearn to create a nonprofit organization and society in which Black people can thrive In Building A Pro-Black World: A Guide To Creating True Equity in The Workplace and In Life, a team of dedicated nonprofit leaders delivers a timely roadmap to building pro-Black nonprofit organizations. Refreshingly moving the conversation beyond stale DEI cliches, editors Cyndi Suarez and the NPQ staff have included works from leading racial justice voices that show you how to create an environmentand societyin which Black people can thrive. You'll also learn how building such a world will benefit all of society, from the most marginalized to the least. The book explains how to shift from simply critiquing white supremacist culture and calling out anti-Blackness to actively designing for pro-Blackness. It offers you: Incisive and engaging work from leading voices in racial justice, Cyndi Suarez, Dax-Devlon Ross, Liz Derias, Kad Smith, and Isabelle MosesTable of ContentsI Enacting Pro-Black Leadership: A Better World Is Possible 1 Going Pro-Black 3 by Cyndi Suarez Defining Pro-Black 5 by Cyndi Suarez When Blackness Is Centered, Everybody Wins: A Conversation with 19 Cyndi Suarez and Dax-Devlon Ross Leading Restoratively: The Role of Leadership in a Pro-Black Sector 39 by Sequoia Owen II Building Pro-Black Institutions: Narrative and Forms 47 What It Looks Like to Build a Pro-Black Organization 49 by Liz Derias and Kad Smith To Build a Public Safety That Protects Black Women and Girls, Money Isn’t the Only Resource We Need 59 by Shanelle Matthews Combatting Disinformation and Misinformation: A Struggle for Democracy and Racial Justice 69 by Kitana Ananda Forms: A New Theory of Power 79 by Cyndi Suarez Copyrighted Material Hierarchy and Justice 85 by Cyndi Suarez A Journey from White Space to Pro-Black Space 91 by Isabelle Moses III Building Pro-Black Institutions: Philanthropy and Evaluation 101 The Emergence of Black Funds 103 by Cyndi Suarez Reimagining Philanthropy to Build a Culture of Repair 109 by Aria Florant and Venneikia Williams How Philanthropy Can Truly Support Land Justice for Black Communities 115 by Savi Horne and Dr. Jasmine Ratliff What Does Black Feminist Evaluation Look Like? 119 by Cyndi Suarez Nothing Is Broken: What Evaluation and Philanthropy Can Learn from Abolitionism 123 by Dr. Aisha Rios IV Implementing Reparations: Health and Well-Being 129 Revolutionary Black Grace: Finding Emotional Justice in Global Black Communities 131 by Esther A. Armah What Is Healing Justice? 139 by Nineequa Blanding The US “Healthcare System” Is a Misnomer—We Don’t Have a System 149 by Amira Barger Pro-Black Actions That Health Justice Organizations Can Model 157 by Amira Barger Repairing the Whole: How Reparations Can Address Physical and Mental Health 165 by Trevor Smith Addressing Inequities in Health Technology 173 by Sonia Sarkar V Implementing Reparations: Work and Ownership 179 Resurrecting the Promise of 40 Acres: The Imperative of Reparations for Black Americans 181 by William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen Solutions Centering Black Women in Housing 193 by Natasha Hicks, Anne Price, Rakeen Mabud, and Aisha Nyandoro Linking Racial and Economic Justice: The Struggle of Our Time 199 by Steve Dubb What If We Owned It? 205 by Darnell Adams How Do We Build Black Wealth?: Understanding the Limits of Black Capitalism 225 by Francisco Pérez VI Organizing for the Future: Community and Politics 235 Making Black Communities Powerful in Politics—and in Our Lives 237 by Alicia Garza Justice Beyond the Polls: Investing in Black Youth Organizers 241 by Carmel Pryor The Liberatory World We Want to Create: Loving Accountability and the Limitations of Cancel Culture 247 by Aja Couchois Duncan and Kad Smith Dimensions of Thriving: Learning from Black LGBTQ+/SGL Moments, Spaces, and Practices 257 by Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond Pro-Blackness Is Aspirational: A Conversation with Cyndi Suarez and Shanelle Matthews 269 About the Authors 283 Index 291
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London Publishing Partnership Why You Dread Work: What's Going Wrong in Your
Book SynopsisEver felt that lurking sense of Sunday night dread? In this warm and empathetic guide to the modern workplace, Helen Holmes tackles precisely what's going wrong in your workplace - and how you can improve your working week. Drawing upon expert research and employee interviews, she answers questions such as: Why does that difficult colleague refuse to take ownership of anything? What can I do about the constant data overload of email and meetings? Why am I still not being paid fairly? Holmes proposes that fear, a lack of focus, and a lack of fairness are at the core of workplace challenges, and outlines how goodwill, purpose and trust can overcome them. Written for you as an employee, this book offers empathy and pragmatism for anyone who's ever contemplated quitting their job and running for the hills. Instead, Holmes gives inspiring case studies and practical tips for crafting a better working week, one step at a time.Trade ReviewA delightful, engaging and well-researched look at why too many people dread their jobs and what to do about it. Packed with wisdom, this book offers practical advice for making work better. - Professor Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School; A vital guide to help you and your colleagues work better.’— Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK and author of Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don’t Make Sense.; What a novel and entertaining book this is! It is very well written and answers the question so many people ask about “why you dread work”, and more importantly, what you can do about it. It is a “must read” for those looking to get greater satisfaction from work and for employers interested in workplace well being. - Professor Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology & Health,ALLIANCE Manchester Business School; Why You Dread Work is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Containing great research to back up its key points, it provides chilling insights into the damage organizations can do. It will make workers realize they are not alone and is a must read for managers if they want to avoid the pitfalls Holmes identifies!’; - Dr Kay Maddox-Daines, Head of School for People Management at Arden University.’
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pandemic
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Cambridge University Press Making Work Visible Ethnographically Grounded
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological concern to make the study of interactional work an empirical, investigatory matter. This edited volume is an overview of Xerox's social science tradition. It uses detailed case studies showing how the client engagement was conducted over time and how the findings were consequential for business impact. Case studies in retail, production, office and home settings cover four topics: practices around documents, the customer front, learning and knowledge-sharing, and competency transfer. The impetus for this book was a 2003 Xerox initiative to transfer knowledge about conducting ethnographically grounded work practice studies to its consultants so that they may generate the kinds of knowledge generatedTable of ContentsIntroduction Margaret H. Szymanski and Jack Whalen; Part I. Work Practice Study in Historical Context: 1. Work practice and technology: a retrospective Lucy Suchman; 2. Engineering investigations: what is made visible in making work visible? Wes Sharrock and Graham Button; Part II. Applying Work Practice Methods: 3. Uncovering the unremarkable Peter Tolmie; 4. Work practices to understand the implications of nascent technology Francoise Brun-Cottan and Patricia Wall; 5. Tokyo to go: using field studies to inform the design of a mobile leisure guide for Japanese youth Diane J. Schiano and Victoria Bellotti; Part III. Practices around Documents: 6. Exploring documents and the future of work Jennifer Watts Englert, Mary Ann Sprague, Patricia Wall, Catherine McCorkindale, Lisa Purvis and Gabriele McLaughlin; 7. New ways of working: the implications of work practice transitions Mary Ann Sprague, Nathaniel Martin and Johannes A. Koomen; 8. Behind the scenes: the business side of medical records Nathaniel Martin and Patricia Wall; 9. Seeing the right colour: technical and practical solutions to the problem of accurate colour reproduction in the digital print industry Tommaso Colombino, David Martin, Jacki O'Neill, Mary Ann Sprague, Jennifer Watts-Perotti, Jutta Willamowski, Frederic Roulland and Antonietta Grasso; Part IV. The Customer Front: 10. Integrated customer service: re-inventing a workscape Jack Whalen and Marilyn Whalen; 11. Interactions at a reprographics store Erik Vinkhuyzen; 12. Ethnography-inspired technology for remote help-giving Jacki O'Neill, Peter Tolmie, Stefania Castellani, Antonietta Grasso and Frederic Roulland; 13. Sign of the times at the department store: replacing paper with electronic signs Johannes A. Koomen; Part V. Learning and Knowledge Sharing: 14. Communal knowledge sharing: the EUREKA story Jack Whalen and Daniel G. Bobrow; 15. Designing document solutions for airline maintenance advisories Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen; 16. Transforming information system design: enabling users to design Yutaka Yamauchi; 17. Rethinking how projects are managed: meeting communication across the organizational hierarchy Erik Vinkhuyzen and Nozomi Ikeya; Part VI. Competency Transfer: 18. Fujitsu learned ethnography from PARC: establishing the social science center Koji Kishimoto with a preface by Jack Whalen; 19. The work practice center of excellence Luke Plurkowski, Margaret H. Szymanski, Patricia Wall and Johannes A. Koomen; 20. Transferring ethnographic competence: personal reflections on the past and future of work practice analysis Brigitte Jordan.
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Cambridge University Press Making Work Visible
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Cambridge University Press The Evolution of the Modern Workplace
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Cambridge University Press The American Workplace
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Castledown Publishers Global Fitness for Global People
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Bookpod Leading Above the Line Applying neuroscience to build psychologically safe and thriving teams
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Yes! Global, Inc PresenceBased Leadership
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Rlpg/Galleys Gender Work and Harness Racing
Book SynopsisWhile gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women's inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania investigates the stories of women involved in harness racing to expose how they use the uniqueness of their situation to work for positive change. With stirring accounts of the strong women who are surviving, and sometimes succeeding, in harness horse racing, Elizabeth Anne Larsen's analysis provides insight for studies of gender and work, occupational sex segregation, and women's studies.Trade ReviewElizabeth Anne Larsen takes us inside the fascinating—and often brutal—gendered world of harness racing. This engrossing study shows how women carve out a place in a male-dominated business of sports. -- Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh; author of Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate MovementWomen's gains in professional sports in the post-Title IX era are notably absent in the world of harness racing. Elizabeth Anne Larsen explains how patriarchal relations in the family businesses of owners and trainers sustain and reinforce the marginalization of women in the sport, and shows readers how a growing connection between the sport and the casino/gaming industry is changing the underlying business model, potentially providing an opening for reorganizing gender relations in a way that builds on concepts and strategies from third wave feminism. This book will appeal to anyone interested in gender inequality in sport and in culture industries more broadly. -- William T. Bielby, University of Illinois at ChicagoThis very provocative book explores issues that are normally ignored in harness racing. While far more women hold prominent positions in harness racing today, success for women in the sulky has remained out of reach. It is ironic and unfortunate that in the years of harness racing’s greatest popularity, women were still confined to mostly domestic responsibilities. -- Dean A. Hoffman, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsPrologue: A Gendered Race Chapter 1. The Harness Racing World Chapter 2. Risks and Gratifications Chapter 3. From a Family Harness Racing Business, or Not? Chapter 4. Disrespect at the Track Chapter 5. Working with Family Chapter 6. Juggling Career and Domestic Demands Chapter 7. Resisting Sexism at Work Chapter 8. Women on Future Horse Racetracks Appendix. A United States Timeline of Women’s Experiences in Harness Racing and Other Sports
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Amacom Redefining Operational Excellence
Book SynopsisTrue operational excellence is not about a method but a mindset . . . and a relentless pursuit of doing things better.
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Interoctave, Inc. The Responsible Business Reimagining Sustainability and Success
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Letourneau University Workplace Grace Becoming a Spiritual Influence at Work
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