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Diversity in the Workforce Current Issues and Emerging Trends

Diversity in the Workforce Current Issues and Emerging Trends

This comprehensive integrated teaching resource provides students with the tools and methodologies they need to effectively negotiate the multiple dynamics that emerge from difference and to appropriately respond to issues of marginalization and social injustice. Written from an American perspective the book not only covers the traditional topics of race gender ethnicity and social class but explores emerging trends around “isms” (racism sexism). This second edition includes two new chapters: one addressing social identity diversity and leadership in the workforce and the other examining under-representation of diversity in the scientific technical and film workforce. This edition also features an updated chapter on social justice as an emerging diversity paradigm; this includes a conceptual framework to advance the ideology of organizational social justice. End-of-chapter questions encourage students to engage in difficult conversations and case studies stimulate students’ awareness of real-world issues that emerge from diversity helping students to develop the broad range of skills they need to mediate or resolve diversity issues as future professionals. Additional links slides multiple choice quizzes and essay questions can be found online as a part of this book’s Instructor Resources. | Diversity in the Workforce Current Issues and Emerging Trends

GBP 77.99
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Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility

Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility

Multinational enterprises continue to rely heavily upon expatriates as part of their global workforce. These expatriates whose exact employment contract may take different forms are assigned to help them develop global skills as well as to foster knowledge transfer. But managing this expatriate workforce is extremely complex requiring a questioning of assumptions and sensitivity to new social and cultural dynamics. This book sets out to examine the problem of expatriate management through an I/O Psychology lens. Each chapter draws upon the expertise of scholars from around the world to provide insights into the latest research findings and remaining needs pertaining to a wide variety of issues. The contributors of this book review the current state of the research of the issue at hand and then make recommendations for where the new frontiers of the research should be in the coming decades. This volume covers four sets of issues pertaining to expatriate management and global mobility in depth. First the different decision points organizations must make about assigning someone to an overseas location for some period of time; second the different categories of employees in the multinational corporation and their unique characteristics and challenges; third the various issues and implications of managing a globally mobile workforce; and fourth the unique contexts of global mobility. Overarching future research themes are identified that lay out the research agenda for the coming decades. By bringing together key research this book aims to help I/O psychologists understand explore and identify new ways of contributing to the understanding of the issues involved in managing an expatriate workforce. Incorporating state-of-the art I/O psychology research in this unique context bears the promise of yielding important new paradigms and practices. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility

GBP 44.99
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Cycles of Poverty and Crime in America's Inner Cities

Cycles of Poverty and Crime in America's Inner Cities

Despite the best hopes of the past half century black urban pathologies persist in America. The inner cities remain concentrations of the uneducated unemployed underemployed and unemployable. Many fail to stay in school and others choose lives of drugs violence and crime. Most do not marry leading to single-parent households and children without a father figure. The cycle repeats itself generation after generation. It is easy to argue that nothing works given the policy failures of the past. For Lewis D. Solomon fatalism is not acceptable. A complex and interrelated web of issues plague inner-city black males: joblessness; the failure of public education; crime mass incarceration and drugs; the collapse of married two-parent families; and negative cultural messages. Rather than abandon the black urban underclass Solomon presents strategies and programs to rebuild lives and revitalize America's inner cities. These approaches are neither government oriented nor dependent on federal intervention and they are not futuristic. Focusing on rehabilitative efforts Solomon describes workforce development prisoner reentry and the role of nonprofit organizations. Solomon's strategies focus on the need to improve the quality of America's workforce through building human capital at the socioeconomic bottom. The goal is to enable more people to fend for themselves thereby weaning them from dependency on public sector handouts. Solomon shows a path forward for inner-city black males. | Cycles of Poverty and Crime in America's Inner Cities

GBP 51.99
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Understanding Community Colleges

Understanding Community Colleges

Understanding Community Colleges provides a critical examination of contemporary issues and practices and policy of community colleges. This contributed volume brings together highly respected scholars as well as new scholars for a comprehensive analysis of the community college landscape including management and governance finance student demographics and development teaching and learning policy faculty and workforce development. At the end of each chapter the Questions for Discussion section helps to bridge the gap between research and practice. Written for students enrolled in higher education and community college graduate programs as well as social sciences scholars this provocative new edition covers the latest developments in the field including trends in enrollment developmental education student services funding and shared governance.

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Age Discrimination in Employment

Age Discrimination in Employment

Increased life expectancy and an ageing workforce have highlighted the problem of age discrimination in developed countries. Malcolm Sargeant's Age Discrimination in Employment is an encyclopedic guide for HR specialists and employment lawyers to the nature of age discrimination in the workplace in a number of countries along with a discussion of the main thrust of employment law in this area including an analysis of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006. The book opens with a consideration of what age discrimination is and how it manifests itself at the workplace and elsewhere. It also breaks discrimination down by age (discrimination against young middle and senior age employees) and explores multiple discrimination including age and gender ethnicity sexual orientation and disability. An important reference for HR departments policy-makers and others concerned with organizational culture and development discrimination and social policy.

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Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

This introductory textbook relates theory to practice and enhances students' learning and understanding of cultural issues that impact on patient care and their own practice as nurses while considering wider social and political issues. Now in its third edition Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care has been updated to include new research evidence and a completely new chapter focusing on the health care workforce itself and the issues it’s facing. Other topics include: Health illness and religious beliefs; Mental health and culture; Women’s and men’s health in a multicultural society; Caring for the elderly; Death and bereavement. Key features: Includes international perspectives and issues relating to overseas nurses studying and working in the UK; Case studies reflective exercises summary boxes and website links designed to stimulate discussion and shared practice; Fully updated with guidelines for practice and education. | Cultural Awareness in Nursing and Health Care An Introductory Text

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Nursery Nurse to Early Years’ Practitioner Role Relationships and Responsibilities

Nursery Nurse to Early Years’ Practitioner Role Relationships and Responsibilities

The role relationships and responsibilities of the traditional ‘nursery nurse’ have changed markedly within the last 20 years demanding a high level of skill knowledge and understanding which pertains to formal international standards. This book responds to the needs of a workforce who have experienced rapid developments and challenges. It supports an understanding of ‘self’ and the creation of an organisational pedagogy. Concepts are explored by reference to research indicating the importance of relationship-based practice with children and parents. Experienced practitioner Hazel Whitters draws on practical examples from the field such as attachment inclusion pedagogy and child protection to bridge the implementation gap between current research policy and practice of work in the early years. Nursery Nurse to Early Years’ Practitioner will be of interest to early years' practitioners academics post-graduate students researchers and course leaders in the field. | Nursery Nurse to Early Years’ Practitioner Role Relationships and Responsibilities

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Human Resource Management in Hospitality Cases

Human Resource Management in Hospitality Cases

Human Resource Management in Hospitality Cases adopts a practical case-based approach to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills in future hospitality managers. Using tried-and-tested real-life scenarios this book thoroughly prepares hospitality students for a career in the field. Chapters are comprised of 75 short vignettes split into nine sections that reflect and cover the primary challenges facing hospitality managers on a daily basis including leadership credibility building and managing employee performance managing a diverse workforce dealing with problem behaviors and many others all contextualised within the hospitality industry. With a main think point and series of questions for each case the book is a highly insightful and engaging read. Suggested answers and solutions to the questions can be found within the extensive online resources that complement the book. Each section is also contextualized and theorized with an additional reading section organized by key concept. This book will be essential for all students of hospitality and an invaluable resource for current practitioners in the field as well.

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International Human Resource Management Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises

International Human Resource Management Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises

The updated sixth edition of International Human Resource Management is an authoritative resource that focuses on international human resource management (IHRM) within multinational enterprises (MNEs). The book includes fifteen chapters with rich pedagogy students have come to expect and is organized into four sections: Strategic Context National and Cultural Context Global Talent Management Role and the Future of IHRM Each chapter has been designed to lead readers through key topics in a highly engaging and approachable way with learning goals relevant data exhibits figures vignettes end-of-chapter case studies discussion questions up-to-date content and numerous references. The sixth edition includes discussions on evolving IHRM topics such as international experiences and adult third culture kids expanded analyses on health and safety statistics and global workforce analytics as well as updated and revised illustrations cases references and instructor resources. Uncovering precisely why IHRM is essential for success in international business and how IHRM policies and practices function within the multinational enterprise this comprehensive textbook provides an excellent foundation for understanding the theory and practice of IHRM. It is essential reading for all students instructors and IHRM professionals. | International Human Resource Management Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises

GBP 74.99
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Radical Organisation Development

Radical Organisation Development

Contemporary organisation development (OD) in practice draws on sophisticated theory and tools to advance organisational change using a range of concepts and techniques including positive psychology appreciation and active engagement with the workforce. OD is considered to be humanistic and as a result progressive. Mark Cole's original and thought-provoking treatise points at a hole at the heart of OD practice: it fails to consider the role of power in the workplace – and the result is disempowering. Drawing from critical theory as a radical means to redefine practice Mark Cole exposes this paradox and reveals the significant limitations and negative impacts of current OD practice. We need to replace the idea of the organisation with a focus on active human organising to enable individuals within systems to effect change from the grassroots up: this concept is Radical OD. Essential reading for students practitioners and academics of OD; the wider HR community and all with an interest in developing their understanding of organisational life this ground-breaking manifesto offers unique and challenging insight into the corporate presence of OD – and challenges the willing reader to reimagine the focus and intent of this work. | Radical Organisation Development

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Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Guide to Best Practice takes a ‘process’ approach and provides the reader with an essential understanding of the purpose policies and processes concerned with managing an enterprise’s workforce within the current business and social environment. Since the ninth edition of this book there have been many significant developments in this field and this new edition has been completely revised and updated in the following ways: Extensively updated content to reflect recent issues and trends relevant to the hospitality industry including: changing labour market profiles and the ‘gig’ economy the digital transformation of HRM practices employer branding developments talent management strategies employee well-being considerations and contemporary concerns over diversity gender and harassment at work. Five new chapters on: organizational culture modern labour markets emotions and well-being careers in hospitality and digital HRM. New international case studies throughout to explore key issues and show real-life applications of HRM in the hospitality industry. Written in a user-friendly style each chapter includes international examples bulleted lists guides to further reading and exercises to test knowledge. | Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry A Guide to Best Practice

GBP 52.99
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Global Crisis and the Creative Industries Analysing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Global Crisis and the Creative Industries Analysing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Workers in the creative industries are highly motivated resilient and innovative and these characteristics have come to the fore during the global health and resultant economic crises enveloping the world. This shortform book analyses transformation in the arts as a result of this era of polycrisis. The author interrogates public policy legislative developments and financial support systems to assist the arts sector around the world. Utilising interview responses from various artists and creatives the book takes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global creative industries as its central case study. It looks at the historical relationship between art and times of global crises the policy initiatives implemented around the world in response to Covid-19 to rescue and support creative industries explores the ways in which audiences artists and creatives responded during the first year of the pandemic and looks towards future opportunities for the creative industries sector. The book also highlights the importance of higher education for the future creative industries workforce. Providing a concise yet holistic interpretation of the early impact of the pandemic the book summarises recent developments and proposes future directions relevant to students and scholars involved in the creative economy. | Global Crisis and the Creative Industries Analysing the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

GBP 48.99
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Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration political science and public policy over the last 25 years. Since the first edition published in 1991 the book has offered professors and students alike an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage to provide a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit HRM today. Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars each focusing on specific and often controversial concerns for public personnel management such as pensions gender and sexuality healthcare unions and a multi-generational workforce. Now in an extensively revised sixth edition Public Personnel Management presents new original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and practitioners alike including: remote working cybersecurity public service motivation the abandonment of traditional civil service at the state and local levels the Affordable Care Act and its implications for practice pension systems and labor relations affirmative action social equity legislation surrounding LGBT rights and – as the field of public personnel management becomes more internationalized – a chapter addressing public personnel management across Europe. This careful and thoughtful overhaul will ensure that Public Personnel Management remains a field-defining book for the next 25 years. | Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

GBP 69.99
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Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

Public Personnel Management has served as an essential concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration political science and public policy for more than 30 years. Since the first edition published in 1991 the book has provided professors and students alike with an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage to cultivate a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit HRM today. Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars each focusing on specific and sometimes controversial concerns for public personnel management such as social equity labor relations public employee rights and the operation of nonprofits. Now in an extensively revised seventh edition Public Personnel Management presents new original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and practitioners alike including: new ways of working (NWW) remote work the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public service workforces work-life balance patterns of discrimination and employees’ perceptions of fairness affirmative action generational differences in the workforce and – as the field of public personnel management becomes more internationalized – chapters addressing human resource management across Europe and a chapter on NWW practices in Switzerland. These together with other chapters ensure that Public Personnel Management will remain a field-defining book for the next 30 years. | Public Personnel Management Current Concerns Future Challenges

GBP 59.99
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The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm

The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm

Despite its frequency and its potential severity preventable medical harm is still prominent in American hospitals and continues to put an alarming amount of lives at risk being the third leading cause of death in the United States. Even some of the most commonly performed surgeries such as knee and hip replacements are resulting in a rapidly increasing rate of surgical site infections. Patricia Morrill’s book is specifically written for the healthcare industry. It fills the need for exposing how preventable harm is a systemwide problem and provides a step-by-step model to apply for raising process improvement to a strategic level. The approach is ideal for team training purposes. The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare gives the reader both a personal and professional view of the impact of preventable medical harm using case studies and observations on preventable deaths and healthcare practice alongside recommended research topics and resources. By looking at the work of both healthcare workers and their managing executives this instructional text gives methods to assess workforces and self-assess the performances of managers. The book equips readers with a 360 view: patients families physicians workforce leaders and culture. Morrill’s ten-step model of Process Improvement Strategy Deployment integrates Lean and Project Management methodologies for developing a problem-solving culture and initiating process improvement at a strategic level. It is essential reading for those in the healthcare industry. | The Perils of Un-Coordinated Healthcare A Strategic Approach toward Eliminating Preventable Harm

GBP 48.99
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Rehabilitation Work Supporting Desistance and Recovery

Rehabilitation Work Supporting Desistance and Recovery

Conversations about rehabilitation and how to address the drugs-crime nexus have been dominated by academics and policymakers without due recognition of the experience and knowledge of practitioners. Not enough is known about the cultures and conditions in which rehabilitation occurs. Why is it that significant numbers of practitioners are leaving the alcohol and other drugs field while disproportionate numbers of criminal justice practitioners are on leave? Rehabilitation Work provides a unique insight into what happens behind the closed doors of prisons probation and parole offices drug rehabs and recovery support services drawing on research from Australia. This book is among the first to provide a dedicated empirical examination of the interface between the concurrent processes of desistance from crime and recovery from substance misuse and the implications for rehabilitation work. Hannah Graham uses practitioner interviews workforce data and researcher observations to reveal compelling differences between official accounts of rehabilitation work and what practitioners actually do in practice. Practitioners express a desire to be the change rather than being subject to change actively co-producing progressive reforms instead of passively coping with funding cutbacks and interagency politics. Applied examples of how practitioners collaborate lead and innovate in the midst of challenging work are complemented with evocative illustrations of insider humour and professional resilience. This book is a key resource for students academics and practitioners across fields including criminology and criminal justice social work psychology counselling and addiction treatment. | Rehabilitation Work Supporting Desistance and Recovery

GBP 46.99
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Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

Since the 1990s tourism has become a major driver of economic activity and community development in Brazil. New policies and approaches growing expertise and investment in tourism have brought significant transformation in tourism products destination development and community involvement. In addition Brazil will be hosting two major sport events in the years ahead i. e. the Soccer World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Brazil offers many cultural and natural attractions but similar to many other developing countries it still struggles with issues such as infrastructure accessibility product development service quality market access and workforce training. This book provides an in-depth examination of tourism in Brazil critically reviewing its development and management. The social economic political and environmental contexts of this emerging global power provide an intriguing backdrop. The book considers important development issues such as the changing policy context community benefit tourism and indigenous tourism. It explores the impacts of tourism on the environment changing community attitudes towards tourism transport infrastructure and sustainability issues in events. Particular segments are explored including backpacker tourism sensual tourism adventure tourism and ecotourism and the implications for tourism research and education are examined. The book draws from theoretical foundations and practical insights and gives voice to Brazilian researchers who are actively engaged in researching tourism. Drawing from cutting edge cross-cultural research this original and timely book will be of interest to students researchers and academics in the areas of Tourism Geography and related disciplines. | Tourism in Brazil Environment Management and Segments

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Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century Entertaining the Nation

Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century Entertaining the Nation

The past two decades witnessed the rise of television entertainment in China. Although television networks are still state-owned and Party-controlled in China the ideological landscape of television programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical simultaneously subservient and defiant nationalistic and cosmopolitan moralistic and fun-loving extravagant and mundane. Studying Chinese television as a key node in the network of power relationships therefore provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the tension-fraught and paradox-permeated conditions of Chinese post-socialism. This book argues for a serious engagement with television entertainment. rethinking It addresses the following questions. How is entertainment television politically and culturally significant in the Chinese context? How have political industrial and technological changes in the 2000s affected the way Chinese television relates to the state and society? How can we think of media regulation and censorship without perpetuating the myth of a self-serving authoritarian regime vs. a subdued cultural workforce? What do popular televisual texts tell us about the unsettled and reconfigured relations between commercial television and the state? The book presents a number of studies of popular television programs that are sensitive to the changing production and regulatory contexts for Chinese television in the twenty-first century. As an interdisciplinary study of the television industry this book covers a number of important issues in China today such as censorship nationalism consumerism social justice and the central and local authorities. As such it will appeal to a broad audience including students and scholars of Chinese culture and society media studies television studies and cultural studies. | Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century Entertaining the Nation

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Neurodiversity in the Workplace Interests Issues and Opportunities

Neurodiversity in the Workplace Interests Issues and Opportunities

Neurodiversity in the Workplace presents a timely and needed perspective on the role and responsibility of employers and those working to increase the effectiveness of workplace practices to examine the many ways we preclude large segments of the population from employment; minimizing opportunities for building a truly inclusive work environment. This collection provides an opportunity to look at how discrimination can occur across the employment process and what can be done to minimize the exclusionary practices that prevent neurodiverse individuals from getting into the workplace advancing thriving and contributing as each of us desires to do. With expertise from leading professionals this book provides a holistic look at the application of leadership theories in a neurodiverse context and how the workplace can be adapted to accommodate for neurodiverse employees. This book also explores effective recruitment strategies by looking into applicant screening as well as interviewing and selection adapting internal organizational resources to a neurodiverse workforce and legal and regulatory environment considerations for autism hiring programs. Each chapter provides an overview of existing knowledge on effective workplace inclusion practices across the employment process specific implications of research to date for a more neurodiversity-inclusive workplace and what future research is needed to further inform these practices. This volume is intended to increase awareness about the challenges and opportunities in making the workplace more neurodiversity-inclusive making it instrumental for I/O and other psychologists. This book is also crucial for management and business consultants; employers; diversity equity and inclusion specialists; human resource professionals; and others interested in neurodiversity inclusion more broadly. | Neurodiversity in the Workplace Interests Issues and Opportunities

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The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

As an increasing number of individuals go to work in the nonprofit sector nonprofit managers need support on how best to build their human resource management capacity. They need to know what systems to examine what questions to ask and how to ensure they are managing people in a legal manner and as effectively as possible given their particular resource constraints. Important questions include: Do we have a clear philosophy one that aligns with our nonprofit mission and values and allows us to treat our employees as the professionals they are? How do we select develop and retain the best people who will produce high value high performance work and how do we do so with limited resources? How do we effectively manage our mix of volunteers and paid staff? What do we need to consider to ensure diverse people work together in a harmonious fashion? With all-new chapters written by the top scholars in the field of nonprofit HRM these are but a few of the many questions that are addressed in this timely volume. These scholars delve into their particular areas of expertise offering a comprehensive look at theories and trends; legal and ethical issues; how to build HRM from recruitment management labor relations to training and appraisal; as well as topics in diversity technology and paid versus volunteer workforce management. This essential handbook offers all core topic coverage as well as countless insider insights additional resource lists and tool sets for practical application. With chapters grounded in existing research but also connecting research to practice for those in the field The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook will be required reading for a generation of scholars students and practitioners of nonprofit human resource management. | The Nonprofit Human Resource Management Handbook From Theory to Practice

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