This accessible and exciting new text looks at the implications of aesthetic labour for work and employment by contextualizing debates and offering a critical approach. The origins of aesthetic labour are explored, as well as the relevant theories from business and management, and sociology. Coverage includes key topics such as: corporate strategy; recruitment and selection practices; and discrimination. </p> <p></p> <p> ...
Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to ...
This Handbook presents a comprehensive and contemporary compendium of the field of cross-cultural management (CCM). In recognition of current trends regarding migration, political ethnocentrisms and increasing nationalism, the chapters in this volume not only cover the traditional domains of CCM such as expatriation, global (virtual) teamwork and leadership, but also examine emerging topics such as bi/multi-culturalis ...
Students are graduating from college with an unprecedented amount of debt. The Quebec student movement and the Occupy Wall Street movement proves that large numbers of students are demanding explanations for why they are crippled with debt and subject to ever increasing tution. Giroux shows the mechanisms by which schools are being reorganized to prioritize profit over people and competitiveness over compassion; and addresses the dystopian impli ...
Kari Lydersen's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Reader, and The Progressive, among other publications. Lydersen's book Revolt on Goose Island was awarded a Studs Terkel Community Media Award.This is the only book that takes on Barack Obama's former chief of staff and the head of Chicago's powerful political machine. The world cast its eyes on Emmanuel for the NATO/G8 summits Rahm is t ...
The BKMF will be promoting the book. Burger King Scholarship will also be involved as well as corporate social media notifications and email blasts about the book. ...
Customer Success Leads to Your Success If you liked Crucial Conversations , The Challenger Sale or books by Grant Cardone, you’ll love Closing the Sale . Guide the conversation. Closing is a process, not an event. In the closing process, there are inevitably many conversations with a variety of potential clients. Closing the Sale will teach you how to influence good decis ...
The primary target audience are HR leaders who are seeking to solve their most intractable issues of increasing organisational performance and employee engagement. They are aware of the power of incorporating perspectives such as OD and psychology to achieve this, but they aren’t experts in the field. Secondary audiences include the following: · Membership organisations in the UK, such as the ILM, CIPD, and BPS. ...
