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  • Dignity in the Workplace

    New Theoretical Perspectives

    by Matthijs Bal ...
    Series series Humanism in Business Series
    Introducing a theory of workplace dignity into the field of management studies, this innovative new book presents an alternative paradigm based on principles of human dignity which is integrated into a theoretical approach to the topic. The author addresses and analyses the causes and consequences of the dominant political-economic paradigm within management studies. Further, it presents a ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Absurd Workplace

    How Absurdity is Normalized in Contemporary Society and the Workplace

    by Matthijs Bal, Andy Brookes, Dieu Hack-Polay, Maria Kordowicz, John Mendy ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The current world is absurd. Faced with climate change, health pandemics, and ever-growing inequality, it is striking how globally, governments and organizations are malingering to find effective responses to these crises, leading to absurd situations where we are facing the destruction of the planet, while humankind is not making the necessary transformation towards truly sustainable societies ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Handbook of Critical Work and Organizational Psychology

    Edited by Severin Hornung, Gazi Islam, P. Matthijs Bal, Parisa Dashtipour, Premilla D'Cruz, Johanna L. Degen, Edina Doci, Nathan Gerard ...
    This authoritative Handbook examines the historical and conceptual foundations, critiques, theoretical and empirical advancements and alternative methodological approaches within the field of critical work and organizational psychology. It focuses on critical and radically humanistic perspectives on existing debates, the uncovering of implicit dynamics within the field and promoting emancipatory ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Idiosyncratic Deals between Employees and Organizations

    Conceptual issues, applications and the role of co-workers

    Edited by Matthijs Bal, Denise Rousseau ...
    Series series Current Issues in Work and Organizational Psychology
    Idiosyncratic deals, or i-deals, are the individualised working arrangements negotiated by employees with the organizations for which they work. Such deals represent an emerging area of study into the effects they have on both parties, as well as co-workers and the wider working world. Do i-deals signify a further breakdown of collectivism within the workplace, or should they be seen as empowering ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • African Diaspora Direct Investment

    Establishing the Economic and Socio-cultural Rationale

    Edited by Dieu Hack-Polay, Juliana Siwale ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Examining the experiences of Africans setting up businesses back home, the main focus of this book is to establish the economic, social and psychological reasons for such ‘home direct investment’. Despite the personal sacrifices that are often needed in order to set up new ventures, the diaspora invests relentless effort and motivations in the pursuit of home ventures. The authors explore critical ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship

    Edited by P. Matthijs Bal, Dorien T.A.M. Kooij, Denise M. Rousseau ...
    This book focuses on the aging workforce from the employment relationship perspective. This innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain motivated, productive and healthy. In 15 chapters, several experts on this topic describe how organizations through effective human resource management can ensure that workers are able to continue working at ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

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    Public Service and Moral Agency

    by Bernardo Zacka ...
    When the State Meets the Street probes the complex moral lives of street-level bureaucrats: the frontline social and welfare workers, police officers, and educators who represent government’s human face to ordinary citizens. Too often dismissed as soulless operators, these workers wield a significant margin of discretion and make decisions that profoundly affect people’s lives. Combining insights ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Thinking Government

    Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition

    by David Johnson ...
    Thinking Government: Public Administration and Politics in Canada, Fourth Edition introduces students to power relations between elected politicians and unelected public servants, while also covering important topics such as the institutions of the federal government, financial and human resources management, and accountability and responsibility. Johnson explores the ways that the ideological ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Professionalism

    The Third Logic

    by Eliot Freidson ...
    Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers dominate. Freidson shows how each method has its own logic requiring different kinds of knowledge, organization, career, education and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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  • Corporatizing Canada

    Making Business Out of Public Service

    by Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl, Kevin Walby ...
    From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • What’s Happened To The University?

    A sociological exploration of its infantilisation

    by Frank Furedi ...
    The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of young people participate in higher education, what occurs in universities matters directly to the whole of society.On both sides of the Atlantic curious and disturbing events on campuses has become a matter of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD