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Spotlight on carers
- Carys Jones
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 34 / Issue 9 / September 2022
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- 05 April 2021, pp. 775-777
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- By Sir Cary L. Cooper, University of Manchester, Jone Pearce, University of California
- Edited by Donald Palmer, University of California, Davis, Kristin Smith-Crowe, University of Utah, Royston Greenwood, University of Alberta
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- Organizational Wrongdoing
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- 05 July 2016
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- 18 July 2016, pp xxv-xxvi
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In the 1987 film Wall Street, written and directed by Oliver Stone, the main character Gordon Gekko says “Greed, for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right; greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” This rationalization of wrongdoing – exemplified by Enron, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, and so on, and some very recent examples as well (e.g., Libor rigging of inter-bank interest rates by banks, VW car emissions scandal) – makes this book a timely reminder of misconduct in the workplace and its consequences for individuals, businesses, and society. The volume editors, Donald Palmer, Kristin Smith-Crowe, and Royston Greenwood, have put together the latest research by some of the most prominent academics and scholars in the field, to highlight “a wide range of unethical, socially irresponsible, and illegal behaviors” engaged in by senior executives and others in a variety of organizations for personal gain, or to enhance their promotion, or to cover up their incompetence or lack of goal achievement, and so on.
The book explores some of the following issues: the limitations and imbalances of theory and research on organizational wrongdoing, workplace morality, market enablers to wrongdoing (an historical review), trust and mistrust, a boundaries perspective of professional misconduct, social networks and organizational wrongdoing, compensation and employee misconduct, the consequences of misconduct, the media portrayal of wrongdoing, and other very important topics.
Although business wrongdoing has been around since trade began, through the Industrial Revolution to the conglomerates of today, the “big data age” and media scrutiny have more quickly highlighted corporate corruption. Now that the light is able to shine on these events, we are more able to explore organizational wrongdoing and business ethics than in the past. This volume provides the science and informed debate on where we go from here in creating more ethical workplaces. As Plato said, “there are not many very good or very bad people, but the great majority are something between the two.” We need to create more ethical organizational cultures for the majority.
A pilot randomized controlled trial of a self-management group intervention for people with early-stage dementia (The SMART study)
- Catherine Quinn, Gill Toms, Carys Jones, Andrew Brand, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Fiona Sanders, Linda Clare
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 28 / Issue 5 / May 2016
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- 17 December 2015, pp. 787-800
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Self-management equips people to manage the symptoms and lifestyle changes that occur in long-term health conditions; however, there is limited evidence about its effectiveness for people with early-stage dementia. This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) explored the feasibility of a self-management intervention for people with early-stage dementia.
Methods:The participants were people with early-stage dementia (n = 24) and for each participant a caregiver also took part. Participants were randomly allocated to either an eight-week self-management group intervention or treatment as usual (TAU). Assessments were conducted at baseline, three months and six months post-randomization by a researcher blind to group allocation. The primary outcome measure was self-efficacy score at three months.
Results:Thirteen people with dementia were randomized to the intervention and 11 to TAU. Two groups were run, the first consisting of six people with dementia and the second of seven people with dementia. There was a small positive effect on self-efficacy with the intervention group showing gains in self-efficacy compared to the TAU group at three months (d = 0.35), and this was maintained at six months (d = 0.23). In terms of intervention acceptability, attrition was minimal, adherence was good, and satisfaction ratings were high. Feedback from participants was analyzed with content analysis. The findings suggest the positive aspects of the intervention were that it fostered independence and reciprocity, promoted social support, offered information, and provided clinician support.
Conclusions:This study has provided preliminary evidence that self-management may be beneficial for people with early-stage dementia.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School;, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine
- Edited by Jochen Reb, Singapore Management University, Paul W. B. Atkins, Australian National University, Canberra
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- Mindfulness in Organizations
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- 05 July 2015
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- 30 June 2015, pp xvi-xvi
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Scholarly and practical interest in mindfulness has exploded in recent years, bringing with it questions about what mindfulness is, how it differs from related concepts in organization and management, and on the effectiveness of organizational mindfulness interventions. Professors Jochen Reb and Paul W. B. Atkins have gathered together the leading scholars and practitioners into a collection that seeks to address these questions and to demonstrate the theoretical and practical richness of mindfulness. This collection is deeply based in scholarship, taking care to discuss the history of mindfulness research, methodological challenges and critical debates; yet, it also includes several chapters by mindfulness teachers and practitioners. Thus, scholars interested in mindfulness can read rich descriptions of mindfulness interventions, and practitioners can better understand the empirical and theoretical basis of mindfulness research.
While mindfulness has traditionally centered on stress reduction, here the concept is applied to new areas of management scholarship, helping to further our understanding of negotiation, decision making, work-life balance, creativity and leadership, among others. It is a resource for those already conducting research on mindfulness as well as those considering moving into this exciting new area of organizational scholarship. This collection will also be useful to practitioners and educators who would like to know what others have done that has been effective and what has not worked so well. Overall we anticipate that this collection will help establish mindfulness in organizations as an important topic within management research and practice.
A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond
- M.C. Kennicutt II, S.L. Chown, J.J. Cassano, D. Liggett, L.S. Peck, R. Massom, S.R. Rintoul, J. Storey, D.G. Vaughan, T.J. Wilson, I. Allison, J. Ayton, R. Badhe, J. Baeseman, P.J. Barrett, R.E. Bell, N. Bertler, S. Bo, A. Brandt, D. Bromwich, S.C. Cary, M.S. Clark, P. Convey, E.S. Costa, D. Cowan, R. Deconto, R. Dunbar, C. Elfring, C. Escutia, J. Francis, H.A. Fricker, M. Fukuchi, N. Gilbert, J. Gutt, C. Havermans, D. Hik, G. Hosie, C. Jones, Y.D. Kim, Y. Le Maho, S.H. Lee, M. Leppe, G. Leitchenkov, X. Li, V. Lipenkov, K. Lochte, J. López-Martínez, C. Lüdecke, W. Lyons, S. Marenssi, H. Miller, P. Morozova, T. Naish, S. Nayak, R. Ravindra, J. Retamales, C.A. Ricci, M. Rogan-Finnemore, Y. Ropert-Coudert, A.A. Samah, L. Sanson, T. Scambos, I.R. Schloss, K. Shiraishi, M.J. Siegert, J.C. Simões, B. Storey, M.D. Sparrow, D.H. Wall, J.C. Walsh, G. Wilson, J.G. Winther, J.C. Xavier, H. Yang, W.J. Sutherland
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- Antarctic Science / Volume 27 / Issue 1 / February 2015
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- 18 September 2014, pp. 3-18
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Antarctic and Southern Ocean science is vital to understanding natural variability, the processes that govern global change and the role of humans in the Earth and climate system. The potential for new knowledge to be gained from future Antarctic science is substantial. Therefore, the international Antarctic community came together to ‘scan the horizon’ to identify the highest priority scientific questions that researchers should aspire to answer in the next two decades and beyond. Wide consultation was a fundamental principle for the development of a collective, international view of the most important future directions in Antarctic science. From the many possibilities, the horizon scan identified 80 key scientific questions through structured debate, discussion, revision and voting. Questions were clustered into seven topics: i) Antarctic atmosphere and global connections, ii) Southern Ocean and sea ice in a warming world, iii) ice sheet and sea level, iv) the dynamic Earth, v) life on the precipice, vi) near-Earth space and beyond, and vii) human presence in Antarctica. Answering the questions identified by the horizon scan will require innovative experimental designs, novel applications of technology, invention of next-generation field and laboratory approaches, and expanded observing systems and networks. Unbiased, non-contaminating procedures will be required to retrieve the requisite air, biota, sediment, rock, ice and water samples. Sustained year-round access to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean will be essential to increase winter-time measurements. Improved models are needed that represent Antarctica and the Southern Ocean in the Earth System, and provide predictions at spatial and temporal resolutions useful for decision making. A co-ordinated portfolio of cross-disciplinary science, based on new models of international collaboration, will be essential as no scientist, programme or nation can realize these aspirations alone.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School;, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine, and London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Edited by Paul Sparrow, Lancaster University, Hugh Scullion, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ibraiz Tarique, Pace University, New York
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- Strategic Talent Management
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- 05 July 2014
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In any gathering of human resources professionals today their conversation is dominated by questions of strategic talent management. These professionals and their executives want to know how they can more effectively acquire and manage the talent their organizations need to meet their current client and customer needs, as well as be staffed for the demands they expect to be facing. This is without question the most pressing practical challenge in human resources management today throughout the world. However, this cacophony of practical questions and ad hoc advice makes it difficult to know what to trust. People use the word “talent” to mean very different things. For example, does talent management refer only to elite employees, or is every employee in the organization talent? Further, is talent management just old human resources management under a new name? Such questions, and the circumstances that make any one approach useful or not, are not well understood. Scholars have only recently begun to provide the clarity and coherence necessary to the effective application of strategic talent management in organizations, as is reflected in the numerous recent journal special issues on the topic. However, such collections of divergent perspectives do nothing to bring coherence to the subject.
Here Paul Sparrow, Hugh Scullion, and Ibraiz Tarique address this challenge by collecting the growing body of systematic research and integrating it into a coherent framework. Making a compelling case that talent management places strategy at the center of employee hiring and management retention, and that there is a range of useful innovations and programs, developing one strategy is the driving objective. This volume makes it clear there is indeed something new and important happening under the umbrella called strategic human resources management. Yet this book does not shy from addressing the competing ideas and interpretations of talent, but lets the disputants make their cases in their own words. The editors then go on to explain where each perspective has the most value, using the differences to explain and illustrate rather than taking any one perspective and seeking to impose it on others. This volume contains contributions from (and has value to) those in fields as diverse as strategy, organizational learning, organizational behavior, marketing, supply-chain management, as well as human resources management. Further, it has a global focus, recognizing that the most challenging talent management is in far-flung global firms and non-governmental organizations.
A systematic review of the cost-effectiveness of interventions for supporting informal caregivers of people with dementia residing in the community
- Carys Jones, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Barry Hounsome
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 24 / Issue 1 / January 2012
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- 04 August 2011, pp. 6-18
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Background: Dementia places a huge demand on healthcare services; however, a large proportion of the cost is borne by informal caregivers. With the number of people affected by dementia set to increase in the future, there is a need for research to consider the effects of interventions on informal caregivers as well as on the individuals with dementia. This paper seeks to systematically review the existing evidence on the cost-effectiveness of interventions to support informal caregivers of people with dementia residing in the community.
Methods: A range of electronic databases was searched. Studies were included if both costs and outcome measures for informal caregivers of people with dementia residing in the community were reported for an intervention. Both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions were included. Quality of study was assessed using the Drummond ten-item checklist for economic evaluations and results were presented through narrative synthesis.
Results: Twelve studies were included in the review; of these only four reported a significant difference in the outcome measure for caregivers.
Conclusions: At present few published studies report costs in enough detail to provide evidence of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of interventions for supporting caregivers. Future trials need to collect caregiver data alongside patient data in order to increase the evidence base for intervention effectiveness. Further research is required to establish the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine
- Edited by Sim B. Sitkin, Duke University, North Carolina, Laura B. Cardinal, University of Houston, Katinka M. Bijlsma-Frankema, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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- Organizational Control
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- 05 June 2012
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- 16 September 2010, pp xviii-xx
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We are please to introduce Organizational Control by Sim Sitkin, Laura Cardinal, and Katinka Bijlsma-Frankema, the newest volume in our Cambridge Companions to Management series. The series is intended to advance knowledge in the fields of management by presenting the latest scholarship and research on topics of increasing intellectual importance. The volumes offer in-depth treatment of management topics that explore and extend our current knowledge and identify future opportunities for research. Each book in the series is one with a sufficient body of research, and holds significant future promise to inform debates, reviews, and empirical research.
Because management scholarship is increasingly international, scholars can no longer limit their reading to scholarship from their own countries, or restrict their conversations to their neighbors. Innovative intellectual work in management is now conducted throughout the world. Each of the volumes in this series is led by prominent scholars who bring together researchers from several countries in order to reflect multi-national perspectives and foster cross-national debate on the topic.
We appreciate the opportunity to work with Cambridge University Press to bring this series to you. Their rigorous independent scholarly reviews of proposals and manuscripts, and approvals via a board of renowned scholars helps ensure that only the highest-quality scholarship is published. We are confident scholars will find the books in this series stimulating and useful to their own programs of research and to the education of their graduate students.
This volume on control is an exemplar of the series.
6 - Cultural Heritage in Environmental Impact Assessment – Reflections from England and Northwest Europe
- Edited by Tom Bloemers, Henk Kars, Arnold Van der Valk, Mies Wijnen
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- The Cultural Landscape and Heritage Paradox
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- 21 January 2021
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- 30 August 2010, pp 445-460
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This paper considers experiences of assessing cultural heritage impacts within the EIA process in England and northwest Europe based on findings from the Planarch study funded by the European Regional Development Fund Interreg IIIB programme. Overall whilst there are examples of good practice, cultural heritage has a relatively low profile in EIA in the countries studied. Nevertheless, cultural heritage is important and makes wider contributions to society beyond its intrinsic value. Therefore, the profile of cultural heritage needs to be raised both within the planning process and EIA and also in the minds of decision-makers, other specialists and the wider public. Ten guiding principles provide a first step in promoting the assessment of cultural heritage in EIA and also to include the consideration of cultural heritage into more strategic planning decisions through SEA.
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Environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA); cultural heritage, archaeology; England, Europe
INTRODUCTION
In recent years the threat to cultural heritage within Europe has increased due to the increasing pressures of development, changes in farming techniques and the impact of natural processes. It is also important to remember that whilst sustainable development explicitly focuses on the broad themes of social, economic and environmental factors, cultural heritage is also an essential component that cuts across these three themes. Therefore there is a need to identify what is important about the historic environment and manage it appropriately for the benefit of present and future generations.
Previous studies on cultural heritage in environmental impact assessment (EIA) focussed on Europe and the USA and indicated shortcomings related to lack of guidance (Lambrick 1993; King 2000; Braithwaite/ Hopkins/Grover 2001), narrowly focused and limited definitions of what constitutes cultural heritage (King 2000; Bond et al. 2004), and a failure to identify potential cultural heritage impacts during the early stages of EIA in either screening or scoping (Lambrick 1993; King 2000; Braithwaite/Hopkins/Grover 2001; Teller/Bond 2002). In Europe deficiencies were apparent in methods and approaches used to assess effects on cultural heritage, with inconsistencies in the role played by cultural heritage in decisionmaking and little involvement of the public in the consideration of cultural heritage (Bond et al. 2004).
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine
- Edited by N. Craig Smith, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, C. B. Bhattacharya, David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, David I. Levine, University of California, Berkeley
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- Global Challenges in Responsible Business
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- 05 June 2012
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- 29 July 2010, pp xxi-xxii
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With the political and media spotlight falling on climate change, sustainability, the ethics of business leaders (and those in the financial services preceding the recession) as well as the other global problems in the under-developed world of poverty, HIV, etc., the business world is beginning to see the necessity of being more socially and ecologically responsible. This is not just about being ‘green’, but about exploring the full range of socially responsible behaviours. As Theodore Zeldin suggested in his book An Intimate History of Humanity: ‘The Green Movement could not become a major political force so long as it concerned itself primarily with natural resources rather than with the full range of human desires. Its setbacks are yet another example of idealism being unable to get off the ground because it has not looked broadly enough at human aspirations in their entirety’. This book, edited by Craig Smith and his colleagues, provides the research base to this growing and increasingly important field. They focus on three key issues of corporate responsibility: embedding corporate responsibility, marketing and corporate responsibility and corporate responsibility and developing countries. Their contributors are comprised of some of the leading international scholars in the field from eight different countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, UK and the United States. This volume is based on state of the art research, which illustrates the importance of corporate responsibility, not only in terms of the ethical and environmental challenges but also because of their business imperative.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine
- Edited by Mark N. K. Saunders, University of Surrey, Denise Skinner, Coventry University, Graham Dietz, University of Durham, Nicole Gillespie, University of Queensland, Roy J. Lewicki, Ohio State University
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- Organizational Trust
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- 05 June 2012
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- 10 June 2010, pp xix-xx
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Trust is widely studied yet remains elusive. Everyone agrees that it is important, that social life could not exist without it, and that it is valuable, since the cost of building structures and controls that substitute for trust in and between organizations is enormous. More elusive still is how trust is established and sustained across cultures by those doing organizational work. Trust requires sending signals of trustworthiness, and differences in the meaning and interpretation of signals is the very essence of different cultures. As this volume's editors, Mark Saunders, Denise Skinner, Graham Dietz, Nicole Gillespie and Roy Lewicki note, people from different cultures often bring mutually alien values and beliefs, uninterpretable behaviours, and incompatible assumptions to their organizational work, all of which can undermine the trust necessary to successful interactions and fruitful collaboration. These scholars address such fundamental questions as how do people from different cultures understand and develop trust in one another? How do they go about building, maintaining and repairing trust in their own culture, and with those in other cultures? Which practices work best to build and sustain successful cross-cultural trust in particular settings? This book reports the current state of our knowledge about cross-cultural trust building, and helps to further our deeper understanding of cross-cultural trust building in and across organizations.
This book brings together leading-edge conceptual thinking and empirical research on the nature, meaning and development of trust across multiple cultural boundaries. It is genuinely international, pulling together the leading trust scholars from around the world.
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- By Cary L. Cooper, CBE, Lancaster University Management School, England, Jone Pearce, University of California, Irvine, USA
- Edited by Dean Tjosvold, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, Barbara Wisse, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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- Power and Interdependence in Organizations
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- 19 January 2010
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- 26 February 2009, pp xiii-xiv
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Mark Twain made a very simple observation to do with leaders and power in life generally, “keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great.” As the Editors of this outstanding and timely volume indicate, leadership and power permeate all aspects of our life, both inside and outside of organizations. From an organizational behavior and behavioral science point of view, we need to better understand the nature of this power and its interdependence with other aspects of organizational life. In terms of the latter, James MacGregor Burns (2003: 240) suggested in his book Transforming Leadership, for example, that “transforming change flows not from the work of the great man who single-handedly makes history but from the collective achievement of a great people.”
Whereas in the 1960s and 1970s the literature was replete with leadership studies, the 1980s and 1990s saw a slight decline in popularity in this subject, as other related subjects took hold (i.e. TQM [total quality management]). But with a different global business scene today involving the emergence of India, China, Russia, and other formerly underdeveloped countries, with differing political traditions and systems in a multimedia age, the issues of leadership, power and “leading with others” has come to “front of stage” once again.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University England, Jone L. Pearce, University of California Irvine
- Edited by Arthur P. Brief, University of Utah
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- Diversity at Work
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- 19 May 2010
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- 24 April 2008, pp xix-xx
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We are pleased to introduce Art Brief's Diversity at Work, as part of the Cambridge Companions to Management series. The series is intended to advance knowledge in the fields of management by presenting the latest scholarship and research on topics of growing importance. Bridging the gap between journal articles and student textbooks, the volumes offer in-depth treatment of selected management topics, exploring the current knowledge base and identifying future opportunities for research. Each topic covered in the series is one with great future promise, and one that also has developed a sufficient body of research to allow informed reviews and debate.
Management scholarship is increasingly international in scope. No longer can scholars read only the work conducted in their own countries, or talk only to their near neighbors. Creative and innovative work in management is now being conducted throughout the world. Each volume is organized by one of our most prominent scholars who brings researchers from several countries together to provide cross-national perspectives and debate. Through this series we hope to introduce readers to scholarship in their field they may not yet know, and open scholarship debate to a wider set of perspectives.
We feel fortunate to be working with Cambridge University Press. Their rigorous independent scholarly reviews and board approval process helps ensure that only the highest-quality scholarship is published. We feel confident that scholars will find these books useful to their own research programs, as well as in their doctoral courses.
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- By Cary Cooper, Lancaster University Management School, Jone L. Pearce, University of California, Irvine
- Edited by Peter Cappelli, University of Pennsylvania
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- Employment Relationships
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- 02 December 2009
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- 27 March 2008, pp xi-xii
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We are pleased to introduce Peter Cappelli's Employment Relationships: New Models of White-Collar Work, as part of the Cambridge Companions to Management series. The series is intended to advance knowledge in the fields of management by presenting the latest scholarship and research on topics of growing importance. Bridging the gap between journal articles and student textbooks, the volumes offer in-depth treatment of selected management topics, exploring the current knowledge base and identifying future opportunities for research. Each topic covered in the series is one with great future promise, and one that also has developed a sufficient body of research to allow informed reviews and debate.
Management scholarship is increasingly international in scope. No longer can scholars read only the work conducted in their own countries, or talk only to their near neighbors; creative and innovative work in management is now being conducted throughout the world. Each volume is organized by one of our most prominent scholars, who brings researchers from several countries together to provide cross-national perspectives and debate. Through this series we hope to introduce readers to scholarship in their field they may not yet know, and open scholarship debate to a wider set of perspectives.
We feel fortunate to be working with Cambridge University Press. Their rigorous independent scholarly reviews and board approval process helps ensure that only the highest-quality scholarship is published. We feel confident that scholars will find these books useful to their own research programs, as well as useful in their doctoral courses.