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Cambridge Companions to Management, Diversity at Work
edited by Arthur P. Brief, fl. 1968, in Cambridge Companions to Management (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 388 page(s)
What effects do racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination have on the functioning of organizations? Is there a way of managing organizations such that we can benefit both the members of traditionally disadvantaged groups and the organizations in which they work? Discrimination on the basis of race or gender...
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edited by Arthur P. Brief, fl. 1968, in Cambridge Companions to Management (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 388 page(s)
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What effects do racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination have on the functioning of organizations? Is there a way of managing organizations such that we can benefit both the members of traditionally disadvantaged groups and the organizations in which they work? Discrimination on the basis of race or gender, whether implicit or explicit, is still commonplace in many organizations. Organizational scholars have long been aware that diversity...
What effects do racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination have on the functioning of organizations? Is there a way of managing organizations such that we can benefit both the members of traditionally disadvantaged groups and the organizations in which they work? Discrimination on the basis of race or gender, whether implicit or explicit, is still commonplace in many organizations. Organizational scholars have long been aware that diversity leads to dysfunctional individual, group, and organizational outcomes. What is not well understood is precisely when and why such negative outcomes occur. In Diversity at Work, leading scholars in psychology, sociology, and management address these issues by presenting innovative theoretical ways of thinking about diversity in organizations. With each contribution challenging existing approaches to the study of organizational diversity, the book sets a demanding agenda for those seeking to create equality in the workplace.
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Social Work
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Arthur P. Brief, fl. 1968
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Companions to Management
Topic / Theme
Sexism, Racism, Organizational structure, Organizational behavior, Discrimination, Work environment, Diversity in the workplace, Macro
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Cambridge Cultural Social Studies, The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices
presented by Fuyuki Kurasawa, 1972-, in Cambridge Cultural Social Studies (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 258 page(s)
Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining ho...
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presented by Fuyuki Kurasawa, 1972-, in Cambridge Cultural Social Studies (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2007, originally published 2007), 258 page(s)
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Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining how groups and persons struggling against global injustices construct and enact human rights through five transnational forms of ethico-p...
Human rights have been generally understood as juridical products, organizational outcomes or abstract principles that are realized through formal means such as passing laws, creating institutions or formulating ideals. In this book, Fuyuki Kurasawa argues that we must reverse this 'top-down' focus by examining how groups and persons struggling against global injustices construct and enact human rights through five transnational forms of ethico-political practice: bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity. From these, he develops a new perspective highlighting the difficult social labour that constitutes the substance of what global justice is and ought to be, thereby reframing the terms of debates about human rights and providing the outlines of a critical cosmopolitanism centred around emancipatory struggles for an alternative globalization.
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Social Work
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Author / Creator
Fuyuki Kurasawa, 1972-
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Topic / Theme
Justice, Human rights, Globalization, Macro
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Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing Community
written by Angélique Janssens, 1955-, in Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 21 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993, originally published 1993), 342 page(s)
This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industriali...
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written by Angélique Janssens, 1955-, in Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time, 21 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993, originally published 1993), 342 page(s)
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This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industrialization did not lead to the destruction of nineteenth-century family life, as the traditionally dominant view contended. This innovative...
This book examines the effects of nineteenth-century industrialization on the strength of relationships within the family and between generations. Dr. Janssens' quantitative approach, based on Dutch population registers, reveals a new perspective: although family life did go through some changes, early industrialization did not lead to the destruction of nineteenth-century family life, as the traditionally dominant view contended. This innovative study also illuminates wider social issues--the nature of hierarchies, class structure and household organization.
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Social Work
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Author / Creator
Angélique Janssens, 1955-
Date Published / Released
1993
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
Topic / Theme
Family relationships, Households, Industrialization, Demographics, Cultural change and history, Macro
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Children, Social Science, and the Law
edited by Bradley D. McAuliff, fl. 1995, Margaret Bull Kovera, fl. 1994 and Bette L. Bottoms, fl. 1993 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002, originally published 2002), 512 page(s)
This study integrates social science research, social policy, and legal analysis related to children and the law. It provides the most cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children's eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children's rights. The volume is an impo...
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edited by Bradley D. McAuliff, fl. 1995, Margaret Bull Kovera, fl. 1994 and Bette L. Bottoms, fl. 1993 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002, originally published 2002), 512 page(s)
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This study integrates social science research, social policy, and legal analysis related to children and the law. It provides the most cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children's eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children's rights. The volume is an important resource for researchers, attorneys, judges, policy makers, legislators, and mental health, social service, and police profession...
This study integrates social science research, social policy, and legal analysis related to children and the law. It provides the most cutting-edge information available on topics such as child abuse, children's eyewitness testimony, divorce and custody, juvenile crime, and children's rights. The volume is an important resource for researchers, attorneys, judges, policy makers, legislators, and mental health, social service, and police professionals.
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Social Work
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Book
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Bradley D. McAuliff, fl. 1995, Margaret Bull Kovera, fl. 1994, Bette L. Bottoms, fl. 1993
Date Published / Released
2002
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Juvenile delinquency, Family, Children's rights, Government policy, Laws and legislation, Macro
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Copyright © 2002 Bette L. Bottoms, Margaret Bull Kovera, Bradley D. McAuliff
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Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life: From Policy to Practice
edited by Steven A. Y. Poelmans, fl. 2005 and Paula Caligiuri, fl. 2008 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 325 page(s)
Organizations can no longer afford to assume that the ideal employee is male, full-time, and free from responsibilities outside work. As the percentage of women in the active work population rises, and the number of dual-income families grows, there is an ever greater demand for more flexible patterns of employmen...
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edited by Steven A. Y. Poelmans, fl. 2005 and Paula Caligiuri, fl. 2008 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008, originally published 2008), 325 page(s)
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Organizations can no longer afford to assume that the ideal employee is male, full-time, and free from responsibilities outside work. As the percentage of women in the active work population rises, and the number of dual-income families grows, there is an ever greater demand for more flexible patterns of employment. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life examines the organizational challenges of introducing work-life policies and practices f...
Organizations can no longer afford to assume that the ideal employee is male, full-time, and free from responsibilities outside work. As the percentage of women in the active work population rises, and the number of dual-income families grows, there is an ever greater demand for more flexible patterns of employment. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life examines the organizational challenges of introducing work-life policies and practices from both an individual and a managerial perspective. Drawing on a broad range of international case studies of companies where such policies have both succeeded and failed, it acts as a practical guide for policy design and implementation. Harmonizing Work, Family, and Personal Life will be essential reading for human resource practitioners, advanced students and academic researchers in the field of human resource management, organizational behavior, or career management.
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Social Work
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Steven A. Y. Poelmans, fl. 2005, Paula Caligiuri, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Work-life balance, Organizational behavior, Corporate culture, Macro
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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
written by Simon J. Charlesworth, fl. 2000 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, originally published 2000), 327 page(s)
Charlesworth examines themes of poverty and class by focusing on a particular town--Rotherham--in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to their life stories the interpretative tools of p...
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written by Simon J. Charlesworth, fl. 2000 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, originally published 2000), 327 page(s)
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Charlesworth examines themes of poverty and class by focusing on a particular town--Rotherham--in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to their life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty. Charlesworth argues the culture de...
Charlesworth examines themes of poverty and class by focusing on a particular town--Rotherham--in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to their life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty. Charlesworth argues the culture described in this book is not unique to Rotherham and the problems identified in this book will be familiar to economically powerless and politically dispossessed people everywhere.
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Social Work
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Author / Creator
Simon J. Charlesworth, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Working-classes, Social classes, Poverty, Macro
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Social Action: A Teleological Account
written by Seumas Miller, fl. 1979 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001, originally published 2001), 322 page(s)
Social action is central to social thought. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. These theories of social action categorie...
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written by Seumas Miller, fl. 1979 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001, originally published 2001), 322 page(s)
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Social action is central to social thought. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. These theories of social action categories are then applied to issues such as environmental pollution, humanitarian intervention and rights of minority groups. Avoiding both th...
Social action is central to social thought. This book provides philosophical analyses of fundamental categories of human social action, including cooperative action, conventional action, social norm governed action, and the actions of the occupants of organizational roles. These theories of social action categories are then applied to issues such as environmental pollution, humanitarian intervention and rights of minority groups. Avoiding both the excessively atomistic individualism of rational choice theorists and implausible collectivist assumptions, this important book will be widely read by philosophers of the social sciences, political scientists and sociologists.
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Social Work
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Book
Author / Creator
Seumas Miller, fl. 1979
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Social movements, Philosophy, Macro
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The Social Costs of Underemployment: Inadequate Employment as Disguised Unemployment
presented by C. David Dooley, fl. 2000 and Joann Prause, fl. 2000 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009, originally published 2004), 288 page(s)
Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large representative sample...
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presented by C. David Dooley, fl. 2000 and Joann Prause, fl. 2000 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2009, originally published 2004), 288 page(s)
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Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large representative sample of Americans from their late teens in 1979, to their early 30's in the last decade of the twentieth century through stages of different...
Comparing the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment, this text studies their effects on self-esteem, alcohol abuse, depression, and birth weight. Using longitudinal methods, it measures controls for reverse causation (selection) and studies a large representative sample of Americans from their late teens in 1979, to their early 30's in the last decade of the twentieth century through stages of different business cycles. The results point to a rethinking of employment status as a continuum.
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Social Work
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Book
Author / Creator
C. David Dooley, fl. 2000, Joann Prause, fl. 2000
Date Published / Released
2004, 2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Health, Unemployment, Employment, Mental health, Macro
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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression
presented by Felicia Pratto, fl. 1999 and Jim Sidanius, fl. 1999 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999, originally published 1999), 414 page(s)
This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social dominance theory, it is presumed that it is also a basic gram...
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presented by Felicia Pratto, fl. 1999 and Jim Sidanius, fl. 1999 (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999, originally published 1999), 414 page(s)
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This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social dominance theory, it is presumed that it is also a basic grammar of social power shared by all societies in common. We use social dominance theory in an attempt to identify the elements of this gr...
This book suggests that the major forms in intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are essentially derived from the human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group-based systems of social organization. Using social dominance theory, it is presumed that it is also a basic grammar of social power shared by all societies in common. We use social dominance theory in an attempt to identify the elements of this grammar and to understand how these elements interact and reinforce each other to produce and maintain group-based social hierarchy.
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Social Work
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Book
Author / Creator
Felicia Pratto, fl. 1999, Jim Sidanius, fl. 1999
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Social classes, Patriarchies, Racism, Social conflict, Macro
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Social Emergence: Societies as Complex Systems
presented by Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 288 page(s)
Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith...
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presented by Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960- (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005, originally published 2005), 288 page(s)
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Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing...
Sociologists have long believed that psychology alone can't explain what happens when people work together in complex modern societies. In contrast, most psychologists and economists believe that we can explain much about social life with an accurate theory of how individuals make choices and act on them. R. Keith Sawyer argues, however, that societies are complex dynamical systems, and that the best way to resolve these debates is by developing the concept of emergence, paying attention to multiple levels of analysis--individuals, interactions, and groups--with a dynamic focus on how social group phenomena emerge from communication processes among individual members.
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Social Work
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Book
Author / Creator
Robert Keith Sawyer, 1960-
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Topic / Theme
Sociology, Social groups, Psychology, Macro
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Copyright © 2005 R. Keith Sawyer
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