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  • Creative Labour

    Working in the Creative Industries

    by Alan McKinlay, Chris Smith ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment
    Creative Labour provides an insight into the unique employment issues affecting workers in film, television, theatre, arts, music, radio and new media.In the UK alone, more than 1 million people work in the creative industries, generating billions of pounds in exports each year. These workers have to contend with elastic working hours, employment and promotion uncertainty and vigorous competition ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Foucault, Governmentality, and Organization

    Inside the Factory of the Future

    by Alan McKinlay, Philip Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Employment Relations
    This book traces how abstract managerial ideas about maximizing production flexibility and employee freedom were translated into concrete, day-to-day practices at the Motorola plant in East Kilbride, UK. Using eyewitness accounts, the book describes how employees dealt with the increased freedom Motorola promoted amongst its employees, how employees adapted to managerial changes, specifically the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Foucault, Management and Organization Theory

    From Panopticon to Technologies of Self

    Edited by Alan McKinlay, Ken P Starkey ...
    This volume draws together critical assessments of Michel Foucault′s contribution to our understanding of the making and remaking of the modern organization.The volume provides a valuable summary of Foucault′s contribution to organization theory, which also challenges the conventions of traditional organizational analysis. By applying Foucauldian concepts such as discipline, surveillance and power ... Read more

    $111.59 USD

  • Foucault and Managerial Governmentality

    Rethinking the Management of Populations, Organizations and Individuals

    Edited by Alan McKinlay, Eric Pezet ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
    In the last two decades there has been an explosion of research inspired by Michel Foucault’s suggestion of a new concept, ‘governmentality’. The distinctive feature of modern governmentality is that across all sorts of fields, rule is predicated upon the active subject as the vehicle through which—and by which—power is exercised. The appeal of governmentality is that, whether we are considering ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Corporate Confidential

    50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know—And What to Do About Them

    by Cynthia Shapiro ...
    Cynthia Shapiro is a former Human Resources executive who's pulling back the curtain on the way that companies really work. In Corporate Confidential, she unmasks startling truths and what you can do about them, including:* There's no right to free speech in the workplace.*Age discrimination exists.* Why being too smart is not too smart.* Human Resources is not there to help you, but to protect ... Read more

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  • Surrender

    How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012

    by Nicholas Comfort ...
    British industry at the start of the New Elizabethan Age was a world leader. The first - British - jet airliner was taking to the skies, the first nuclear power station was under construction at Calder Hall and British firms were pioneering the computer. Our shipyards reigned almost supreme, and from Britain's factories came cars, lorries, buses, heavy machinery, aircraft and locomotives, exported ... Read more

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  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

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  • Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification

    by Rajat Paharia ...
    The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller!The new secret to driving LOYALTY THAT PAYSOnce revolutionary, loyalty programs designed to differentiate products quickly became commoditized. And yet, billions of dollars are still spent every year on programs that are doomed to fail. These programs, it turns out, don't inspire long-term loyalty. Once a better deal comes along, customers will ... Read more

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  • Workplace Genie

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  • Bad Bosses, Crazy Coworkers & Other Office Idiots

    201 Smart Ways to Handle the Toughest People Issues

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  • Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love

    by David Sturt ...
    THERE'S GREAT WORK ONLY YOU CAN DO. THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU GET IT DONE.Great work lives inside all of us.The question is: Do we make the contributions we're capable of? Is our best work getting out there? Breaking through? Creating a difference the world loves?We've long been told our ability to succeed depends on our IQ, talent, education level, gender, job title, or when and where we were born. ... Read more

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