Re Shaping Work 2

Author : Chris Smith,John Child,Michael Rowlinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521323045

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Reshaping Work by Chris Smith,John Child,Michael Rowlinson Pdf

This book is concerned with the management of organisational change. It focuses on Cadbury Ltd and provides an in-depth study of change within this famous British company. Cadbury Ltd is famous for its pioneering personnel management. One of the purposes of this study is to assess how this established company ethos facilitated change by examining the development and implementation of a capital investment programme that radically changed working practices at the company's Bournville plant in Birmingham. At a more general level the authors develop a theory of organisational change that emphasises the interaction between external market forces and internal management action. This approach unites an emphasis on the structural parameters that limit a firm's capacity for independent change, with a recognition of the vital role performed by influential members of an organisation in initiating and managing change. This book will be of interest to teachers and students of business history, organisational behaviour, industrial relations and industrial sociology.

Author : Joan C. Williams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674064492

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Reshaping the Work-Family Debate by Joan C. Williams Pdf

The United States has the most family-hostile public policy in the developed world. Despite what is often reported, new mothers don't Òopt outÓ of work. They are pushed out by discriminating and inflexible workplaces. Today's workplaces continue to idealize the worker who has someone other than parents caring for their children. Conventional wisdom attributes women's decision to leave work to their maternal traits and desires. In this thought-provoking book, Joan Williams shows why that view is misguided and how workplace practice disadvantages menÑboth those who seek to avoid the breadwinner role and those who embrace itÑas well as women. Faced with masculine norms that define the workplace, women must play the tomboy or the femme. Both paths result in a gender bias that is exacerbated when the two groups end up pitted against each other. And although work-family issues long have been seen strictly through a gender lens, we ignore class at our peril. The dysfunctional relationship between the professional-managerial class and the white working class must be addressed before real reform can take root. Contesting the idea that women need to negotiate better within the family, and redefining the notion of success in the workplace, Williams reinvigorates the work-family debate and offers the first steps to making life manageable for all American families.

Author : Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions,Grande-Bretagne. Department for work and pensions
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0101871023

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Department for Work and Pensions: Public Consultation: Reshaping Workplace Pensions for Future Generations - Cm. 8710 by Great Britain: Department for Work and Pensions,Grande-Bretagne. Department for work and pensions Pdf

In Reinvigorating workplace pensions1 published last November, the Government set out to explore whether there was scope for a new category of defined ambition (DA) pensions that would complement the defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) structures that currently dominate the market. Automatic enrolment and the single-tier State Pension will provide a firm foundation for saving for retirement. But if the current forms of DC pension saving become the default alternative to traditional DB, the pension income of future generations from workplace pensions will be more uncertain than for past generations. Over the last 12 months the DA project - a joint project between DWP and the pensions industry - has been exploring options in a middle ground. The Government proposes that the regulation of workplace pension schemes should not focus on the detail of benefit design but on what is important to the member: ensuring that any promise or guarantee, whether from the sponsoring employer or scheme, provider is delivered. This Government proposes to make it easier for employers to sponsor new pension schemes where benefits accrue on a specified basis (e.g. related to salary); and also to allow additional flexibilities for future accruals only within existing DB schemes, including the possibility of allowing a statutory override to facilitate these changes. The new flexibility will remove constraints from the existing legislative framework while still giving employees the certainty of a pension scheme where the benefits are defined (such as in relation to their salary) with the security of the promise being sponsored by their employer

Author : William Borden
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231519335

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Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work by William Borden Pdf

William Borden's persuasive collection of original essays reaffirms the place of theory in social work practice, showing how different theoretical models, therapeutic languages, and modes of intervention strengthen eclectic and integrative approaches to psychosocial intervention. A distinguished group of scholars and practitioners examine emerging developments in cognitive theory, psychodynamic thought, resilience research and family therapy, psychobiography and narrative perspectives, and conceptions of place and environment in psychosocial intervention. They introduce integrative frameworks for intervention and examine a series of crucial issues in the field, including the role of theory in evidence-based practice, the development of practice wisdom, and the ways in which conceptions of love, acceptance, and social justice influence theorizing and practice. The contributors to this volume, each one carefully selected, reaffirm the framing perspectives and core values of the social work profession and identify fundamental challenges and tasks in developing theory and practice. Exploring contemporary yet no less essential concerns, they reflect the richness and creativity of theorizing in our time.

Author : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Garamond Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000046997654

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Re-Shaping Work 2 by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Pdf

This book will contribute to a better understanding of workplace change, the role of new technologies, the debate on lean production and empowerment of the workforce, the information highway, work and the environment, and the possibilities of shorter work hours.

Author : Craig Warkentin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0742509729

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Reshaping World Politics by Craig Warkentin Pdf

This text examines the ways in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs) contribute to the development and maintenance of global civil society. The author investigates eight NGOs and connects their organizational activities to global civil society's constitutive dynamics and processes.

Author : Katia Corsi,Nicola Giuseppe Castellano,Rita Lamboglia,Daniela Mancini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319495385

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Reshaping Accounting and Management Control Systems by Katia Corsi,Nicola Giuseppe Castellano,Rita Lamboglia,Daniela Mancini Pdf

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other. In particular it addresses topics including cloud computing, data mining, XBRL, and digital platforms. It presents an analysis of how new technologies can reshape accounting and management information systems, enhancing their information potentialities and their ability to support decision-making processes, as well as several studies that reveal how managerial information needs can affect and reshape the adoption of digital technologies. Focusing on the four major aspects data management, information system architecture, external and internal reporting, the book offers a valuable resource for CIOs, CFOs and more generally for business managers, as well as for researchers and scholars. It is mainly based on a selection of the best papers - original double blind reviewed contributions - presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS).

Author : John Anderson,Christopher Robert Schenk,Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Garamond Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Labor supply
ISBN : 0886271754

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Reshaping Work 2 by John Anderson,Christopher Robert Schenk,Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Pdf

Author : Kankaew, Kannapat
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781668446171

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Global Air Transport Management and Reshaping Business Models for the New Era by Kankaew, Kannapat Pdf

The air transport industry is highly vulnerable to environmental changes as was seen when the recent COVID-19 pandemic caused most airline operations to cease. However, for decades airlines have been collapsing around the globe as the business of managing airline operations has become stressed due to price competition. This is detrimental to air carriers since air transport products and services are the same. Moreover, it impacts other industries such as tourism, hotels, and restaurants, which contribute to the derailment of economic and social activities. Thus, it is essential to determine new practices and strategies that can allow air transport management to be enriched and to flourish. Global Air Transport Management and Reshaping Business Models for the New Era provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge on the new era of business management on air transport. It provides strategies, technologies, and tools used in the reshaping of the air transport business model. Covering topics such as customer experience, robotic process automation, and airline alliances, this major reference work is an essential resource for airline managers, supply chain specialists, air transport managers, students and faculty of higher education, libraries, researchers, economists, government officials, and academicians.

Author : Anne Boddington,Jos Boys
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460916090

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Re-Shaping Learning: A Critical Reader by Anne Boddington,Jos Boys Pdf

Learning Spaces is an emerging field, fuelled by a growing interest in the relationships between learning and spaces in which it takes place, whether conceptual, personal, social, physical and/or virtual. It is concerned with making learning spaces that can better meet the needs of 21st century learners, academics and other related publics. In post-compulsory education this has opened up many interesting and important issues. There remains a lack of any theoretical understanding as to how such spaces should be conceived or designed; and hardly any critical discussion about effective frameworks for either the development of contemporary learning spaces or for assessing their impact on learning, teaching and research. At the same time, there is much debate about what the purposes of post-compulsory education should be, as well as concerns about where and by whom it should be provided. We therefore need to urgently improve our understanding of the interactions between learning and space. It is essential that we not only share perspectives, theories and methodologies but also critically reflect on our own different assumptions, and work together to build better models for post-compulsory education in the future. To help in this process this book is designed as a ‘critical reader’ that can enable researchers, academics, students and managers involved in Learning Spaces to share and engage with some key ideas, issues and texts. A central aim is to bring together some of the best research from across the many different disciplines concerned with learning spaces, including education, architecture, anthropology, human-computer interaction, estate planning and museum studies. Reshaping Learning is thus intended for anyone interested in, and wanting to think more about, learning spaces whether as users, clients or managers; or who are want to better understand interactions between the social and the spatial.

Author : Judith M. Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520071883

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Reshaping the Psychoanalytic Domain by Judith M. Hughes Pdf

Tracing the line of succession from Sigmund Freud, through Melanie Klein to Fairbairn and Winnicott, Judith Hughes demonstrates the internal development of the British school of psychoanalysis and the coherence of its legacy. Both lay reader and professional will find the book illuminating.

Author : Peter Fairbrother,Charlotte Yates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135842383

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Trade Unions in Renewal by Peter Fairbrother,Charlotte Yates Pdf

This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an attempt to develop a distinctive approach. This book aims to provide a thorough grounding for informed discussion and debate about the position and place of trade unions in modern economies.

Author : Maria Harris,Gabriel Moran
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257836

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Reshaping Religious Education by Maria Harris,Gabriel Moran Pdf

Well-known religious educators Maria Harris and Gabriel Moran challenge the religious education community to risk change. Focusing on themes of foundations, development, spirituality, and a wider world, Harris and Moran discuss issues such as gender, death and dying, and both interreligious and international dialogue.

Author : Jonathan Frankel
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195093551

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Studies in Contemporary Jewry: X: Reshaping the Past by Jonathan Frankel Pdf

This brilliant collection of essays examines the dialogue between Jewish history and historiography in terms of changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and historical consciousness of Jews in modern times. From essays dealing with the origins of Jewish historiography in the nineteenth century, to its contemporary perspectives and methodologies, this book provides a great overview and varied insights into the field.

Author : Sam Burton
Publisher : Dhimant N Parekh
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781628409277

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Reshaping the Body with Versatile Shred Diet by Sam Burton Pdf

To achieve ideal body weight, one needs to maintain a healthy diet and exercise daily. Shred Diet isn’t only about weight loss; it’s about reshaping your body and changing the way your clothes fit. Shred Diet is a six-week program of eating healthy foods in a way to boost metabolism in order to burn more calories. Here the dieters will constantly be eating (every three and a half hours!), four meals or meal replacements (soups, smoothies, shakes) and 3 snacks a day. Eating smaller meals will keep you from getting hungry as you distribute your calories throughout the day. Equally important, spacing out your meals will keep your hormones stable. By reducing calorie intake at 1st week & bringing them back at 3rd week you’ll create metabolism confusion like muscle confusion it’ll keep your metabolism off-kilter and fuels your fat-burning engines. Week 5 is an eating detox where you’ll get all the nutrition through foods that naturally clean out your system. One needs to perform 30-45 minutes of cardiovascular exercise on 5 out of 7 days. All the recipes here are healthy & full of nutrients with tightly controlled calorie counts and are super easy to make. Six weeks can make a big difference.