The tales that bind Randall, William Lowell; Clews, Rosemary; Furlong, Dolores
The tales that bind,
2015, 2015, 2015-02-03, 2015-02-05
eBook
The Tales that Bind presents a narrative approach to facing the challenges of working as a practitioner in social work, education, medicine, or the church in small towns, remote hamlets, and other ...rural settings.
Purpose - The purpose of this article is to critique the strengths and weaknesses of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL). The primary purpose of the NCSL is to improve student ...attainment levels through enhancement of leadership capacity within England's government schools. The critique aims to include the issues of strategic rethinking, definition of terms, leadership competencies, core competencies, selection criteria, and research needs.Design methodology approach - This article provides a review of literature related to leadership capacity building and challenges to the NCSL enhancement of student attainment levels in England's government schools.Findings - The article indicates that the NCSL had numerous strengths adequate for the initial core activities of headteacher development. Subsequent broadening of those responsibilities to include all leadership development in government schools is a challenging task. The continued increase in expectations necessitates a strategic rethinking of NCSL capability.Practical implications - The number of potential school leaders warrants reflection on current practice. The "demographic time-bomb" of the teaching profession has implications for succession planning and professional development. The NCSL has endeavoured to prepare additional school leaders. The increase in NCSL responsibilities regarding school leadership necessitates a sharing of responsibility with other providers.Originality value - The article is among the first to critique the NCSL and to identify lessons to be learned by educational leaders from the NCSL experience.
Equal opportunity in the workplace is thought to be the direct legacy of the civil rights and feminist movements and the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yet, as Frank Dobbin demonstrates, ...corporate personnel experts--not Congress or the courts--were the ones who determined what equal opportunity meant in practice, designing changes in how employers hire, promote, and fire workers, and ultimately defining what discrimination is, and is not, in the American imagination. Dobbin shows how Congress and the courts merely endorsed programs devised by corporate personnel. He traces how the first measures were adopted by military contractors worried that the Kennedy administration would cancel their contracts if they didn't take "affirmative action" to end discrimination. These measures built on existing personnel programs, many designed to prevent bias against unionists. Dobbin follows the changes in the law as personnel experts invented one wave after another of equal opportunity programs. He examines how corporate personnel formalized hiring and promotion practices in the 1970s to eradicate bias by managers; how in the 1980s they answered Ronald Reagan's threat to end affirmative action by recasting their efforts as diversity-management programs; and how the growing presence of women in the newly named human resources profession has contributed to a focus on sexual harassment and work/life issues.
Focusing on current workplace issues and employee and employer expectations of Human Resource Management in a rapidly changing business environment, this book examines current trends of HR practices ...and expands on current literature.
Used by over 25,000 students across 130 countries, this bestselling text, written by leading international experts in each topic, retains its critical edge, academic rigour and breadth of coverage in ...the new fifth edition. The new edition reflects the contemporary debates and emerging issues in the field of IHRM, supplementing classic theories and models with recent research and international developments. Divided into three parts, the first section looks at the ways of thinking about IHRM theory and practice; the second section deals with multinational companies and how they manage their workforce around the world; the final section looks at both traditional and newer approaches to IHRM policies and practices. A selection of up-to-date examples from across the globe are used to support the text, including Uber's regulatory challenges across Europe, the gig economy, employment rights after Brexit, health insurance for part-timers in the US and EU, attracting and retaining 'millennials', the world's happiest and unhappiest countries, and CSR in Hong Kong. The book is complemented by free online resources for lecturers and students, including PowerPoint slides, additional case studies, SAGE video clips with critical thinking questions, free SAGE journal articles for every chapter, annotated useful weblinks, and suggested answers to self-assessment questions. Suitable reading for upper-undergraduate and masters level students on IHRM modules.
The complex and ever-changing nature of today's—and tomorrow's—workforce demands that all involved in talent management rethink how to attract, engage, and grow future talent. This forward-looking ...handbook captures talent management's evolution from a series of transactions to a fluid process that includes talent development. With 20-plus chapters written by more than 30 contributors, the ATD Talent Management Handbook challenges you to think about the talent model of the future through the lens of different workforce models. It offers progressive thoughts on the current state of talent management and on how the function needs to adapt. Leaders, practitioners, and consultants alike will find useful insights and answers to relevant talent management challenges. Edited by learning and development authority Terry Bickham, this handbook covers the entire talent management cycle, from talent acquisition and engagement to leadership development and succession planning. ATD's first handbook on talent management, this book includes a foreword by ATD President and CEO Tony Bingham, highlighting the foundational components of talent development and its role within talent management.
Der Strukturwandel in der Gesundheitsversorgung betrifft nicht nur die Belange der Patienten. Er erfordert auch ein Umdenken innerhalb der Gesundheitsberufe, um den neuen Bedarfslagen und ...Rahmenbedingungen gerecht zu werden. Inwiefern müssen sich die Handlungsspektren der Verantwortlichen den Gegebenheiten anpassen? Wie kann dem Mangel an Fachpersonal bei gleichzeitigem Innovationsdruck begegnet werden? Vor diesem Hintergrund analysieren namhafte Autoren Wandel, Trends und Perspektiven der personenbezogenen Dienstleistungsberufe im Gesundheitswesen — mit besonderem Blick auf die Versorgungs- und Bildungslandschaft. Auch zukunftsfähige Professionalisierungswege werden diskutiert. „Dieser Band“, so Klaus Hurrelmann, „übernimmt die längst überfällige Bestandsaufnahme der aktuellen Entwicklungen im Feld der Berufe des Gesundheitssystems.“
In recent years, much has occurred in the field of traumatology, including the widening of the audience and the awareness of PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). This book from celebrated ...traumatology pioneer Charles Figley, further clarifies the concept of compassion fatigue through theory, research, and treatment. The basic thesis of this book is the identification, assessment, and treatment of compassion fatigue and this is done over eleven chapters, each from distinguished researchers in the field.
With interest in the global environment and the management of talent increasing, understanding the issue of global careers is crucial for students and managers alike.
This exciting book captures ...broad research extending to a large set of diverse motivations, experiences, and outcomes of international work in global for profit and not for profit organizations and delivers nuanced insights into the management of international employees for firms and governmental/non-governmental organizations.
This text covers global career issues in-depth, working at the intersection of career and international human resource management and using a number of perspectives, such as organizational or individual ones. Chapters include:
theories, frameworks and concepts
supporting research/data where relevant
managerial implications, summaries, learning points, figures and tables.
Illustrated with up to the minute case studies from companies such as Pepsi, Imperial Tobacco, Cadbury Schweppes, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philips, HSBC, Misys, Philip Morris International and Masterfoods, Global Careers is essential reading for all those studying or concerned with career management, human resource management and international business.
In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird das Thema Stressbewältigung von Pflegekräften konzeptionell und empirisch betrachtet. Arbeitsstress nimmt für die meisten Berufsgruppen zu und ist zu einer der ...häufigsten Ursachen für psychische und physische Erkrankungen geworden. Lange Ausfallzeiten und Frühverrentungen können aus stressbedingten Erkrankungen resultieren. Somit wird Arbeitsstress zunehmend zu einem betrieblichen und gesellschaftlichen Problem. Insbesondere Pflegekräfte sind intensiv von Arbeitsstress betroffen und rücken daher zunehmend in das Interesse der Forschung. Neben der Entstehung und den Auswirkungen von Arbeitsstress, beschäftigt sich die Forschung auch mit dem Thema Stressbewältigung in Form von Coping und Resilienz. Unter Coping werden kognitive Prozesse und Handlungen mit dem Ziel, eine Stressreaktion zu beenden, verstanden. Resilienz bezeichnet die Widerstandsfähigkeit gegenüber Stress. Der wissenschaftlichen Literatur mangelt es bisher an integrativen Modellen, die Coping und Resilienz gemeinsam betrachten. Somit sind die Mechanismen der Stressbewältigung bisher unzureichend erklärt. Es wird daher ein konzeptionelles Modell zur Stressbewältigung entwickelt und auf Pflegekräfte in Form einer qualitativen und einer quantitativen personenzentrierten Analyse angewandt. Die Arbeit liefert verschiedene empirische und konzeptionelle Beiträge zur Stressbewältigung von Pflegekräften im Speziellen, sowie zu Coping und Resilienz im Allgemeinen.
