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Personal 2012
Haufe Lexware Verlag 2012; US$ 4.30Hauptbeschreibung Mit diesem Kompass erhalten Sie einen Überblick zu allen wichtigen Fragen der Personalarbeit. Der Kompass Personal bietet Ihnen für das Jahr 2012 übersichtliche Tabellen, unverzichtbare Daten, Tipps und Informationen, aktuelle Zahlen, wichtige Fristen, Termine und Adressen für das Personalbüro und die tägliche Personalarbeit.INHALTE:-... more...
The Meaning of Work in the New Economy
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 125.00This book analyzes the multiple levels of meaning which people attach to work today, and the role of work in people's lives. By looking at call centres and software development, the book evaluates some of the claims made for the knowledge economy and argues that defining the work-life boundary is a constant problem for many workers more...
9 to 5
RAND Corporation 2005; US$ 9.95Describes a case study of six enterprises that use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to control access in the workplace to understand their policies about personally identifiable records obtained by sensing RFID-based access cards. These policies have a number of common features, but the policies are neither documented nor shared with employees. more...
Economic Sociology of Work
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 144.95The objective of this volume is to apply the economic sociology perspective to issues of work broadly defined. Economic sociology is a vibrant area of research investigating how social structures, power allocations and cultural understandings shape the production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services.The volume consists of three... more...
Job Quality and Employer Behaviour
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 138.00This book takes a fresh look at the issue of job quality, analyzing employer behaviour and discussing the agenda for policy intervention. Between 1997 and 2002, more than twelve million new jobs were created in the European Union and labour market participation increased by more than eight million. Whilst a good deal of these new jobs have been created... more...
Tackle office nightmares
A&C Black 2009; US$ 6.49While we'd all like a quiet life, there are some situations that can't be ignored. In offices, workplace bullying is on the rise and discrimination is commonplace. Key customers are ever more demanding, won't take no for an answer and aren't afraid to tell you so. Tackle office nightmares offers solutions and step-by-step advice on... more...
Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco
PM Press 2011; US$ 12.00In this empathetic tale of hope, understanding, and the importance of family, children face the difficult issue of poverty and the many hardships of being homeless through an inspiring young heroine named Ivy. Ivy is a young girl who finds herself homeless on the streets of San Francisco when she and her father, Poppy, are evicted from his artist... more...
Identities at Work
Springer 2007; US$ 219.99This book examines continuity and change of identity formation processes at work under conditions of modern working processes and labor market flexibility. By bringing together perspectives from sociology, psychology, organizational management, and vocational education and training, it connects the debates of skills formation, human resources development,... more...
The Sociology of Industry
Taylor and Francis 1981; US$ 61.95This book provides an excellent introduction to the sociology of industry. It comprises of three sections, which in turn address: the relation between industry and other sub-systems or institutions in society; the internal structure of industry and the roles people play within that structure; the social actions of individuals and groups within an... more...
People at Work
NYU Press 2008; US$ 79.00People at Work is noted sociologist Marjorie L. DeVaults groundbreaking collection of original essays on the complexities of the modern-day workplace. By focusing on the lived experiences of the worker, not as an automaton on an assembly line, but as an embodied human of flesh and bone, these essays offer important insight on the realities of... more...









