Celebrating The World Of Work

Author : Susan A. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313010217

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Celebrating the World of Work by Susan A. Thompson Pdf

Explore a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Peruse a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Corresponding open-ended projects, stories, recipes, and book suggestions give further insights into how certain careers fulfill particular people. Many career-based projects make great learning extensions for different subject areas such as art, math, science, and social studies. Blue collar, white collar, and arts positions are given even attention.

Author : Norman Best
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803261276

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A Celebration of Work by Norman Best Pdf

“Nothing is better for a person than to have an opportunity to do meaningful work," says Norman Best in this memoir detailing his forty-eight years as a blue-collar worker. During those years, he built and maintained highways and bridges in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana, and served stints as a machinist in the San Francisco shipyards and as business agent for Local 86 of the International Association of Machinists. In A Celebration of Work he shows how the construction of rural roads, railroad bridges, and modern superhighways depended on the expertise of skilled workers who cared deeply about quality. Yet the work of private contractors, interested solely in profit, was often careless and dangerous. Best's concern for the worker led him to the Communist Party in the 1930s, but, disillusioned with the party's leadership, he left it in 1946. His philosophy of economic democracy, rooted in Jeffersonian democracy, Marxian socialism, and the Golden Rule, renders his voice unique. Whether Best is describing organizing a union, busting the highway construction contract system, or refusing to cooperate with the FBI, his memoir honors the art of laboring with pride, self-confidence, and dignity.

Author : Susan Conklin Thompson
Publisher : Libraries Unlimited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781563086694

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Celebrating the World of Work by Susan Conklin Thompson Pdf

Explore a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Peruse a variety of jobs and careers through oral history interviews with people who love what they do for a living. Learn the ins and outs of careers that range from mainstream roles such as doctors, computer experts, and postal workers to more obscure callings such as mural painters, river trip guides, and creature effects technicians. Corresponding open-ended projects, stories, recipes, and book suggestions give further insights into how certain careers fulfill particular people. Many career-based projects make great learning extensions for different subject areas such as art, math, science, and social studies. Blue collar, white collar, and arts positions are given even attention.

Author : Bashker Biswas,William Garrison,Robert Ramirez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000782516

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The New World of Work by Bashker Biswas,William Garrison,Robert Ramirez Pdf

Arguing that a functional approach to Human Resource Management is fast becoming obsolete, this book explores the many areas of accelerated change in the workplace and how business leaders must evolve their thinking to meet the needs of their workers and managers alike. With a clear focus on the accelerations caused by Covid-19 and how technological platforms have enabled working practices and business continuity, the book effectively lays the groundwork for a changed but well-functioning people management system. The authors present the new model of Strategic Human Asset Lifecycle Management that incorporates the drastic changes in how jobs are designed, how human talent is acquired, how work is performed, how work is rewarded and conditions set, and crucially, how labor laws must change – all to meet the fast-moving requirements of a digitized world. Enriched with cases that illustrate both well-adapted and badly-adapted organizations, as well as helpful summaries and thought-provoking challenges, this book is an essential resource for all those who aspire to great people leadership in their organizations, including HR professionals, instructors, and upper-level students.

Author : Mitchell R. Haney,David A. Kline
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739141427

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The Value of Time and Leisure in a World of Work by Mitchell R. Haney,David A. Kline Pdf

It is a platitude that most people, as they say, 'work to live' rather than 'live to work.' And in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, work weeks have expanded and the divide between work time and personal time has significantly blurred due to innovations in such things as electronic communications. Concerns over the value of work in our lives, as well as with the balance or use of time between work and leisure, confront most people in contemporary society. Discussions over the values of time, leisure, and work are directly related to the time-honored question of what makes a life good. And this question is of particular interest to philosophers, especially ethicists. In this volume, leading scholars address a range of value considerations related to peoples' thoughts and practices around time utilization, leisure, and work with masterful insight. In addressing various practical issues, these scholars demonstrate the timeless relevance and practical import of Philosophy to human lived experience.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913764

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Keith Ferrazzi,Kian Gohar,Noel Weyrich
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781647821968

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Competing in the New World of Work by Keith Ferrazzi,Kian Gohar,Noel Weyrich Pdf

A Wall Street Journal bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling author on how to use radical adaptability to win in a world of unprecedented change. You've shed antiquated systems and processes. You went all-in on digital. Your teams settled into new, often better, ways of doing things. But did your organization change enough to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world? Did you fully leverage the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leap forward and grow stronger? Are you shaping the new environment to your advantage? If not, it's not too late to learn from the best. New York Times #1 bestselling author Keith Ferrazzi, along with coauthors Kian Gohar and Noel Weyrich, shows leaders how to shape their organizations and practices to remain competitive in a new, post-pandemic context. Based on an ambitious global research initiative involving thousands of executives, innovators, and changemakers who redefined their strategies, business models, organizational systems, and even their cultures, Competing in the New World of Work: Offers a bold new vision for the organization of the future Reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic Defines the new model of leadership—radical adaptability—for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and transformation Competing in the New World of Work is both your inspiration and your road map to embracing new realities, motivating talent, and winning bold frontiers.

Author : Wicke Chambers,Cheryl Stephenson
Publisher : Winslow Press LLC
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Retirees
ISBN : 9780976802808

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Celebrate Retirement by Wicke Chambers,Cheryl Stephenson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Community development, Urban
ISBN : PURD:32754071072593

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Celebrate the Spirit of Success! by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jürgen Heideking,Geneviève Fabre,Kai Dreisbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782389897

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Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation by Jürgen Heideking,Geneviève Fabre,Kai Dreisbach Pdf

Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, the formative period of American national identity, the authors reveal the complex interrelationships between collective identities on the local, regional, and national level which, over time, shaped the peculiar character of American nationalism. This volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.

Author : Nicholas Sekunda
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789693829

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Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers by Nicholas Sekunda Pdf

Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professor Michael Vickers; from the Aegean Bronze Age to the use made of archaeology by dictators in the modern age. Seven contributions relate to Georgia, where the Professor has worked most recently, and made his home.

Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241988114

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If You Should Fail by Joe Moran Pdf

'There is an honesty and a clarity in Joe Moran's book If You Should Fail that normalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them' Julia Samuel, author of Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass 'Full of wise insight and honesty. Moran manages to be funny, erudite and kindly: a rare - and compelling - combination. This is the essential antidote to a culture obsessed with success. Read it' Madeleine Bunting Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions. Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. Widely acclaimed observer of daily life Joe Moran is here not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human. As Moran shows, even the supremely gifted Leonardo da Vinci could be seen as a failure. Most artists, writers, sports stars and business people face failure. We all will, and can learn how to live with it. To echo Virginia Woolf, beauty "is only got by the failure to get it . . . by facing what must be humiliation - the things one can't do." Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human, and his critique of how we live now, offers comfort, hope - and solace. For we need to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.

Author : Vana Chiou,Lotte Geunis,Oliver Holz,Nesrin Oruç Ertürk,Fiona Shelton
Publisher : Waxmann Verlag
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783830993780

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Voices from the Classroom: A Celebration of Learning by Vana Chiou,Lotte Geunis,Oliver Holz,Nesrin Oruç Ertürk,Fiona Shelton Pdf

Voices from the Classroom illustrates that teachers have a leading voice in the policies that impact their students and the profession of teaching. The aim is to provide a rich and broad view of the impact of inquiry in the classrooms, from primary to higher education, and to provide a window into the perspective of teachers. Voices from the Classroom allows us to advance this mission by identifying and then turning educators' ideas into action. The publication includes chapters on issues ranging from dyslexic students' geospatial abilities to teachers' differential behaviours related, student characteristics and the experiences of refugees with bullying in the educational space. All the contributions published in this book emerged from real classrooms: our teachers and researchers conducted their research by drawing on their experience as educators. We believe that these insights into everyday classrooms, and the issues affecting them, are crucial to making teaching and learning better. We hope they can help drive real, positive change for students and teachers.

Author : Paul F. Wilkinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351674096

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In Celebration of Play by Paul F. Wilkinson Pdf

Play is the child’s way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation facilities children need a wide variety of opportunities, choices and raw materials that they can use as they see fit for free constructive creative play. Originally published in 1980, these essays, drawn from papers given at the International Playgrounds Association’s Seventh World Congress, focus on the social significance of play. However, both the Association and the book itself are not solely concerned with ‘playgrounds’ in the formal sense; rather, they are concerned with the wide range of play environments that are – or should be – available to children. It is recognised that play opportunities can exist for the child in and around the home (playrooms, backyards), the school and public park (traditional, adventure and creative playgrounds), the institution (day-care centres, hospitals), and the city qua city (the streets and shopping centres). This work is concerned with all these environments, considering the developmental aspects of play in a social context. The varied contributions from researchers and play leaders from several countries, consider such topics as the importance of play, development through play, leadership training and special groups.

Author : Daniel L. Kain
Publisher : National Middle School Association
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 1560901519

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Camel-makers by Daniel L. Kain Pdf

(2) "What's This Thing Supposed To Do?": Teaming for a Purpose; (3) "Does She Always Have to Have the Last Word?": Developing Team Norms; (4) Melchuzar to the Rescue!: Team Leadership; (5) "I've Got a Great Idea. We'll Use a Hump!": Team Dialogues; (6) "That's Not the Way Horses Gallop!": Freeing Teams from Constraints; (7) "One Hump or Two?": Conflict on Teams; (8) "They're Laughing at Our Horse!": Teams and Boundary Relations; (9) "It's Not a Horse. It's a Camel!": Celebrating Team Accomplishments; and (10) Jamal Anticipators: A Bibliography.