Working Patterns & Practices

There is recurrent public concern with enhancing the quality of professional performance. What is the con-temporary understanding of professionalis...

Teleworking is an up-to-date, groundbreaking and comprehensive assessment of teleworking. It includes * multidisciplinary contributions drawing on ...

Everyone has heard the phrase about doing twice the work in half the time, but instead of focusing only on time, this book focuses on driving incre...

The principles of sound human resource management are generally understood, but too often practitioners believe the same policies and programs will...

Fifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the company’s innov...

Fifteen years ago, a company was considered innovative if the CEO and board mandated a steady flow of new product ideas through the company’s innov...

This volume provides valuable insights into how organizations are changing and evolving and how human resource personnel, employers, and employees ...

This title was first published in 2002. Call centres are a type of service work that stand at the interface between corporations and consumers. The...

Telecommuting has been regarded as a powerful tool to reduce traffic congestion, pollution and energy consumption. It also supposed to improve life...

From language classrooms to outdoor markets, the workplace is fundamental to socialisation. It is not only a site of employment where money is made...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Ma...

In the last decades diversity and its management has become a feature of modern and postmodern organizations. Different practices have spread aroun...

Organization Development: Strategies for Changing Environments, Second Edition, aims to help managers of the future successfully plan for and manag...

Since the 1980s, the process of European economic integration, within a wider context of globalization, has accelerated employment change and place...

An all new updated 2021 edition of the popular original guide to working from home and adjusting to virtual work featuring the best tips and advice...

Are you a manager, stuck between pressure from senior leadership and the needs of your team? Do you sometimes feel that you’ve been robbed of your ...

This is the first textbook that makes workplace health surveillance accessible to a broad audience. Step-by-step, it shows how to establish or impr...

As business struggles to adapt to a rapidly changing world, managers are bombarded with a bewildering array of schemes for how to be a boss and mak...

A timely resource for Black professionals on how to rise to the top of their organizations or industries and, just as importantly, to stay there.Bl...

What if every day at work felt like your team’s most productive ‘away day’?The most successful and innovative teams and organisations are highly co...

Psychological Management of Individual Performance is a unique combination of contributions from an academic and a practitioner for each topic. ...

How culture and gender become weapons in the evaluation of both Japanese and female employees at an American company in Japan

How culture and gender become weapons in the evaluation of both Japanese and female employees at an American company in Japan

What is work? Is it simply a burden to be tolerated or something more meaningful to one's sense of identity and self-worth? And why does it matter?...

Time, timing, and temporality are inherently important to organizational process studies, yet time remains an under-theorized construct that has st...

This book looks at how large organizations have managed and adapted to changing conditions of employment shaped by the recent economic and politica...

Looking to make a positive impact in your life? Look to your own internal guidance system first! The one activity each of us can pursue that would...

Deregulation and decentralization have placed organizations in the driving seat of employment change. Drawing on seven case studies of large organi...

"Read this book, apply its concepts, and see how your business transforms.” — Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach and #1 Leadership ...

Where We Work highlights the many options that come into play when designing a home office. It brings together a wealth of inspiring visuals and de...

More people are extending their working lives through necessity or choice in the context of increasingly precarious labour markets and neoliberalis...

Stalking. Sexual harassment. Mass shootings. Employers are increasingly expected to have a plan to identify and manage threats posed by employees i...

“Straightforward and practical, this book is a must-read for any leader or change practitioner.”―Mark Porter, Executive Vice President People &...

Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation explores how labour market policymakers should respond to the threats and opportunities that arise from ...