Karin Sanders

Julie A. Cogin

Hugh T.J. Bainbridge

Since the beginning of the century, there have been calls for the integration of traditional individualistic (micro) and management (macro) paradigms in Human Resource Management studies. In order to understand this so-called ’black box,’ the HR field needs research which is more sensitive to institutional and cultural contexts, focusing on formal and informal relationships between employees, supervisors and HR managers and the means by which these organizational participants enable and motivate one another. This book presents advanced quantitative and mixed research methods that can be used to analyze integrated macro and micro paradigms within the field of Human Resource Management. Multi actor, social network and longitudinal research practices, among others, are explored. Readers will gain insight into the advantages and disadvantages of different research methods in order to evaluate which type is most suitable to their research. This book is suitable for both advanced researchers and graduate students.

Research Methods for Human Resource Management

Chris Jackson

Jane Qiu

Ben Nanfeng Luo

While research in organisational studies has become increasingly rich and complex, organisation researchers are constantly challenged by the growing quest for theoretical advancement and innovation. To conduct theoretically rigorous and innovative research, contemporary researchers and students must develop in-depth understanding of the theoretical traditions and future prospects of their discipline. This book provides a collection of cutting-edge research topics in the field of organisation and management and offers advanced research findings that explore the frontiers of the field. Advancing Organisational Theory in a Complex World aims to provide deep insights into many influential organisational theories, including, contingency theory, institutional theory, stewardship theory, population ecology theory, ambidexterity, and complexity theory. All these theories have been developed to explain the external and internal factors that influence organisational survival and evolvement. We focus on these theories because they represent some of the most important ways into the modern literature, counter-points to the modern literature, and a breath of fresh air to some theories which should be better known. This book shows the fruitfulness and the continuous vitality of the theoretical field of organisational studies in a critical and innovative way. Finally, this book is dedicated to Professor Lex Donaldson who is a thought leader in the field. The field owed this to Lex, for his lifelong dedication to organisational studies and for his creation and advancement of theories that have inspired several generations of researchers.

Advancing Research in a Complex World

Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World

Michael Bock

Die Sozialarbeit ist einerseits von einer Verschärfung gesellschaftlicher Probl- lagen betroffen, von den politischen Veränderungen des „aktivierenden Sozi- staats“ andererseits und nicht zuletzt von einer grundlegenden Neuordnung in der Finanzierung und Organisation der Erbringung sozialer Leistungen. Im - sammenhang mit diesen Veränderungen sind grundlegende Prinzipien der tra- tionellen Sozialarbeit in Frage gestellt worden, die sich mit den Stichworten Bürokratie, Hierarchie und Paternalismus fassen lassen und die für die Realität der Sozialarbeit bis in die 90er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts selbstverständlich und prägend waren. Das bedeutet freilich nicht, dass sich die entsprechenden Handlungsformen und vor allem auch Mentalitäten nicht vielerorts noch immer finden, vor allem, wenn man hinter die Kulissen von Eigen- und Außendarstellungen blickt. T- sächlich macht Neues Angst und Angst verhindert Veränderung, weshalb es eine große Tradition in der Sozialarbeit wie in anderen Lebensbereichen auch gibt, in der Neues als „nicht praktikabel“, zu „aufwändig“, „mit unserer Klientel und unseren Fallzahlen nicht zu schaffen“ abgewehrt wird. Mit diesen oder ähnlichen Floskeln bestärkt man sich gegenseitig, den Veränderungsdruck auszusitzen und im alten Trott weiterzumachen.

Neue Ansätze in der Sozialen Arbeit

Kundenorientierung - Partizipation - Respekt

Over the past few centuries, northern Europe’s bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable account of their modern afterlives, Karin Sanders argues that the discovery of bog bodies began an extraordinary—and ongoing—cultural journey. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Sanders shows, these eerily preserved remains came alive in art and science as material metaphors for such concepts as trauma, nostalgia, and identity. Sigmund Freud, Joseph Beuys, Seamus Heaney, and other major figures have used them to reconsider fundamental philosophical, literary, aesthetic, and scientific concerns. Exploring this intellectual spectrum, Sanders contends that the power of bog bodies to provoke such a wide range of responses is rooted in their unique status as both archeological artifacts and human beings. They emerge as corporeal time capsules that transcend archaeology to challenge our assumptions about what we can know about the past. By restoring them to the roster of cultural phenomena that force us to confront our ethical and aesthetic boundaries, Bodies in the Bog excavates anew the question of what it means to be human.

Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination

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Konturer

Russell D. Lansbury

Peter Sheldon

Sarah Gregson

The book provides a collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety. Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, the chapters traverse important historical examples and place important, emerging contemporary trends, like work in the gig economy, into wider international and historical perspectives. The authors are leading authorities in their fields. The book contributes to advancing our knowledge – empirical and theoretical – of the ways in which labour market dynamics, management strategies, state regulation and public policy, and union organisation affect outcomes for workers. It features in-depth exploration of, and reflection on, some of the major labour market challenges facing workers, and analysis of strengths and weaknesses of responses to those challenges, whether via management, state regulation or collective employee voice. The chapters highlight shifts in in/equality of outcomes; access to security and flexibility at work; genuine access to workplace voice and decision-making; and the implications of different avenues and mechanisms for regulating work and employment. The text is aimed at researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in work and organisational studies, industrial/employment relations and human resource management, workplace (or occupational) health and safety, employment law, and labour history. It will also be of particular interest to policy makers and practitioners working in the field of workplace health and safety.

Historical and Emerging Trends

The Regulation and Management of Workplace Health and Safety

Karin Sanders

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